André Heizer

As the Governors Ball Music Festival turns 10, we’re taking a look back at the inaugural 2011 event. You can check out everything we’ve published around the anniversary here. Ten years ago, on June 18th, 2011, a few twenty-somethings threw a one-day music festival on a tiny island near Manhattan. “It was mostly people joking with us, saying, ‘Good luck, haha. No one’s ever been able to do this,’” Governors Ball co-founder Jordan Wolowitz remembers of those early planning stages.

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