The Essence Music Festival’s Marketplace and Art Expo this past weekend resembled a Monopoly board. Spaces around the perimeter of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center’s conference halls were bought ...
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 ...
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 ...
Premium advertising platform it may be, but Champions Square is no place to spend an afternoon in July. At 4 p.m., at the Essence Music Festival’s Block Party I can’t find any unoccupied shade and so ...
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 ...