Governors Ball Music Festival is a two-day music festival held on Randall's Island in New York City on June 23-24, 2012. This year will be the second year of the annual event. It is produced by Founders Entertainment, an independent festival promotion company based in New York City. Aside from the wide variety of music, the festival will feature different games and activities, as well as an assortment of New York City's finest food-trucks.
Randall's Island is situated in the East River in New York City, part of the borough of Manhattan. It is separated from Manhattan island on the west by the river's main channel, from Queens on the east by the Hell Gate, and from the Bronx on the north by the Bronx Kill. It is joined to Wards Island on the south by a landfill, the site of former Little Hell Gate. Together, the two islands form New York County's Census Tract 240, which had a total population of 1,386 living on 2.2 km² of land area, according to the United States Census, 2000.
ative Americans called the island Minnahanonck. It was purchased from the Indians in 1637 by Dutch Governor Wouter Van Twiller and used for farming. John Montresor, an engineer with the British army, purchased the island in 1772. He lived on it, now renamed Montresor's Island, with his wife until the Revolutionary War forced him to deploy. The British used his island to launch amphibious attacks on Manhattan, and Montresor's house there was burned in 1777. He resigned his commission and returned to England in 1778, but retained ownership of the island until the British evacuated the city in 1783 and it was confiscated. It was purchased by Jonathan Randel (or Randal) in 1784, at which time it acquired its familiar name, if with different spelling. His heirs sold it to the city in 1835 for $60,000.
Line up for The Governors Ball 2012 include:
Alberta cross
Art vs. Science
Atmosphere
Beck
Big gigantic
Built to spill
Cage the elephant
Chromeo
Cults
Devendra banhart
Duck sauce
Explosions in the sky
Fiona apple
Freelance whales
James murphy & pat mahoney (dfa/lcd soundsytem)
K. Flay
Kid cudi
Major lazer
Modest mouse
Nobody beats the drum
Passion pit
Penguin prison
Phantogram
Santigold
The jezabels
Turf war
Walk the moon
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