When the Governors Ball Music Festival announced the lineup for its third annual installment, in January, Kanye West and Kings of Leon were listed as two of the top three headliners, with the third kept tantalizingly secret: the festival’s poster showed only a black bar where the third name should have been. Now the festival has announced that Guns N’ Roses will fill out an already varied lineup that also includes some 60 bands and performers, among them Nas, the Avett Brothers, Animal Collective, the Lumineers, Beirut, Grizzly Bear and Young the Giant.
The festival, which started as a one-day event on Governors Island in 2011, moved to Randalls Island Park and expanded to two days last summer, will run three days this time - June 7 to 9. And it appeas to be strengthening its presence on Randalls Island. This year’s events will be held on what the organizers describe as a more spacious site that offers extra space for art installations and an expanded list of food vendors.
