Part of the excitement with the music festival is in the wide range of acts that you can see on any given day. Friday alone brought the opportunity to see Lorde and Pierce the Veil within the span of four hours, something I never would've expected back to say in high school. However, equally important is the idea that the earlier you get there the greater a chance you have to see your next favorite artist…or the next artist to explode in popularity.

After a day of nonstop action at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, a common enemy of music festivals around the world began to rear its big, ugly head. Mother Nature acts as friend and foe to music festivals, with the latest example in Governor’s Ball history being the infamous Saturday of 2025. The doors didn't open until 4 o'clock because of the lighting, and many fans of the lineup ended up making it into the shortened festival absolutely soaked. The forecast called for a chance of rain

One of the most historically significant parks in Queens from a worldwide perspective is Corona Park, located in between Corona and Flushing. The former waste disposal was turned into a park for the 1928 World’s Fair and revitalized for the 1963-64 World's Fair. Those fairs became breeding grounds for new inventions, exchanges of ideas with cultures, and a sense of pride for the celebration of the world that folks lived in during that time. While the World’s Fair no longer exists in the context