For 14-year-old Jashua Bermudez, performing with hip-hop legend Doug E. Fresh at the 2026 Essence Festival marks just the ...

Three-week festival, running July 28 to August 20, will feature music, dance, spoken word and theater created over recent ...

The groundbreaking project was the last album she'd release before her death in 2001.

Missy Elliott’s Aaliyah tribute and performances from George Clinton, Public Enemy, and T.I. closed out ESSENCE Festival 2026 ...

Far more people stepped onstage Sunday than on Essence’s first two nights. Here's music writer Keith Spera's review.

This summer in Toronto, there are free live performances at a stunning waterfront park all season long. Here’s what to know about SummerSeries in Trillium Park.

Will less music be more at the 2026 Essence Festival of Culture? Last year, the Essence concerts at the Caesars Superdome ...

South Oxfordshire District Council has announced the £60,000 Performing Arts Grant, aimed at helping organisations deliver ...

Everything changed in 2001, not just geopolitics, says Toby Manning. In culture nothing exemplifies this more than Aaliyah's ...

In Anna Meredith's body percussion piece 'Connect It' a variety of rhythmic sounds and movements are passed between the performers. This musical effect is known as a canon. A canon is where two or ...

The Source Magazine sends a supreme born day salute to one of Hip Hop’s most innovative architects, Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, who celebrates her 55th birthday today. There has never been another ...