Take a look through 30 years of Black Joy, celeb sightings, and celebration of our culture through music on the ESSENCE festival stage NEW ORLEANS – JULY 04: Singer Rihanna performs during day one of ...

While the event is technically called the Essence Festival of Culture, one of its biggest draws is the nightly concert featuring some of the biggest names in Black music. But at the 2025 Essence Fest ...

Press play on records from the artists bringing Hip-Hop, R&B, funk, and soul to this year’s Evening Concert Series.

The Essence Festival of Culture is starting to firm up the details of its music lineup for when it returns to New Orleans Friday, July 3, through Sunday, July 5. The annual celebration of Black women ...

The Essence Festival of Culture has announced its first wave of musical performers for the 2025 evening concert series, which will run from Thursday, July 3, through Sunday, July 6. Actor and comedian ...

The Essence Festival Of Culture is gearing up to make New Orleans the place to be during this 4th Of July weekend: The 2025 edition of the festival is set to run from July 4 to 6 at Caesars Superdome, ...

New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, has a longstanding relationship with music—music contributes to the city’s sense of history as well as the present-day atmosphere of the region. And with the ...

Essence, nearing half a century as a premier African-American fashion and lifestyle magazine, will once again transform downtown New Orleans into a hotbed of R&B, hip-hop and funk over the Fourth of ...

Essence Magazine launched the Essence Festival of Culture in 1995 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the publication. Last year, the annual celebration of Black women, Black music and Black-owned ...

NEW ORLEANS — A legal dispute that caused the cancellation of a local bookstore’s event spotlighting Black authors during the Essence Music Festival of Culture held in New Orleans has been resolved.

Aretha Franklin has released dozens of albums since she was first recorded, along with her preacher father, on a 1956 gospel record. Between those dozens of albums, there are hundreds of songs; a ...