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 ...

Essence Superlounge returns! This time, it's a Digital series, 'Music Monday' debuting with powerful soul singer KIRBY from ...

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Chaka Khan performs at the 2011 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana ...

We are less than a month away from this year's Essence Festival of Culture, which runs from July 3 to July 5.

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.

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 ...

All those people who didn't turn out for the Essence Music Festival's sparsely attended opening night? They showed up Friday. It was gridlock outside the Superdome both before and after the show; ...

The "Supa Dupa Fly" hitmaker who was honored at the 2018 ESSENCE Black Women in Music event tell us why she cried on stage ...

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 ...

The Essence Music Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary over the Independence Day weekend, filling the Louisiana Superdome with three days of pop, rap, hip-hop and R&B from top names in the ...