Governors Ball 2019: Schedule, Lineup, Transportation, Weather

NEW YORK, NY — Summer festival season is officially underway as the annual Governors Ball returns to Randall's Island Friday, May 31.

What started as a small concert series on Governors Island in 2011 has turned into an action packed, three-day music festival that draws some of the biggest names in the industry. The event has grown in size so much that it had to relocate from its original location to the more spacious Randall's Island.

The festival experience transcends music by incorporating such activities as interactive photo booths, life-sized board games and installments of New York City street art.

The truly special part of Governors Ball, though, remains the music.

If you've snagged tickets to the music festival, but don't know what comes next — don't worry. Patch has got you covered.

Here's everything you need to know about attending Governors Ball 2019.

Getting to Governors Ball:

Most people don't go to Randall's Island very often, so getting there can be tricky.

Take the 4,5 or 6 to 125th street and then hop on the X80 bus at 125th and Lexington Avenue. The X80 bus will take you directly to the festival, but please keep in mind that the bus collects a $6.75 round trip fare. It only costs $4 if you come from the subway though. Monthly MetroCards do not work on the bus so please be ready with a regular MetroCard.

Festival Ferries will be traveling to and from the event every 15 minutes throughout the day starting at 11 a.m. The ferry landing is located at East 35th Street at FDR drive. Ferries to the island will stop at 9 p.m. There are a limited amount of ferry tickets available and purchase information is here.

Brooklyn Shuttle, the festival shuttle bus, will pick up in front of the Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg. A limited amount of tickets are available for the shuttle, see here.

Walking and biking to Randall's Island is also very doable. You can get there by crossing the RFK Bridge from Manhattan/125th Street, RFK Bridge from Queens, or the RFK Bridge from The Bronx. You can also walk the footbridge from E. 103rd St. in Manhattan.

Need help figuring out where to go once on the island? Check out this map of the festival grounds.

The festival schedule/lineup:

The music starts at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 31st and goes until 10:30 p.m. each day. Here are the lineups.

Day one of the festival on Friday May 31st, features: Tyler the Creator, Lil Wayne, Brockhampton, Gesaffelsteinm Jorja Smith, Blood Orange, Mitski, The Internet, Jessie Reyez, M0, Hippo Campus, Amber Mark, The Voidz, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Cautious Clay Jeremy Zucker, Dennis Lloyd, Miles Kane, Hundredth, Still Woozy, Njomza and Deal Casiono.

Day two of the festival on June 1st, features: Florence + The Machine, Major Lazer, The 1975, Kacey Musgraves, Zhu, Vince Staples, Lord Huron, Ty Dolla $ign, Playboi Carti, King Princess, Denzel Curry, Clairo, Ravyn Lenae, Saba, Elohim, Sunflower Bean, U.S. Girls, Calpurnia, Dreamers, Suzi Wu, Easy Life and Tobi Lou.

Day three of the festival on June 2nd, features: The Strokes, Nas, SZA, Loius the Child, Kaytranada, Sheck Wes, Beast Coast (Joey Bada$$ + Flatbush Zombies), Lily Allen, Bazzi, Noname, Charlie XCX, Bob Moses, Sob X Rbe, Chelsea Cutler, 070 Shake, Parcels, Taylor Bennett, Soccer Mommy, The Underachievers, Kirk Knight, Nyck Caution, Jack Harlow, Aaron Aye, Shaed, Ric Wilson and Mkultra.

Weather:

Since Governor's Ball is an outdoors music festival, the cooperation of Mother Nature is a big aspect of the experience. The weather looks like a mixed bag for the weekend.

Friday is mostly sunny with a high of 79 degrees and little chance of rain, according to Weather.com. Saturday is partly cloudy, but still only with a 20 percent chance of rain.

Sunday has a high of 72 degrees and a low of 55 degrees with afternoon thunderstorms and a 40 percent chance of rain, according to Weather.com.