24 hours after the Essence Fest crowd sat in anticipation of Janet Jackson’s appearance, a packed Superdome waited (and waited, and waited) patiently to see what Alicia Keys and her baby bump would look like in person. One week after a five-months-pregnant Keys shocked a national television audience by jumping on top of a piano [...]
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Sneak Peak at the Essence Festival Main Stage
July 1, 2010 – 2:39 pm
[UPDATE] Friday night, the Essence Music Festival opens in the Louisiana Superdome. Janet Jackson in her only performance of the year, Alicia Keys and Mary J. Blige will headline the main stage each night, and that stage is an unusual construction by production designer Stefan Beese of RE:BE Design that is pretty dramatic when seen [...]
Essence Festival 2010: Three Queens
July 1, 2010 – 12:19 am
Sometimes you hit a bull’s-eye. With Mary J. Blige, Janet Jackson and Alicia Keys, it’s hard to imagine a trio of headliners more perfectly suited to a festival tied to Essence Magazine. Though the Essence Music Festival—which takes place July 2-4 at the Louisiana Superdome—has evolved beyond an event that caters to African-American women, that [...]
YouTube du Jour: Essence Music Festival
June 30, 2010 – 9:21 am
This weekend, the Essence Music Festival returns to the Superdome, and on Saturday night, LL Cool J’s on the main stage opening for Alicia Keys (who doesn’t look five months’ pregnant) on a bill that also includes Gladys Knight and Keri Hilson. Here’s an 18-year-old LL Cool J on Soul Train doing “Rock the Bells.”
Essence Festival Day-By-Day Schedule Announced
May 6, 2010 – 11:28 am
The Essence Music Festival returns to the Louisiana Superdome July 2-4 with Janet Jackson headlining its opening night. Today Essence announced its night-by-night lineup, which is as follows: Friday, July 2: Main stage: Janet Jackson, Charlie Wilson, Raphael Saadiq, Monica. Superlounges: Chrisette Michele, Irma Thomas, Arrested Development, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Mary Mary, Irvin Mayfield [...]
Janet Jackson to Essence Fest
March 30, 2010 – 7:00 am
Janet Jackson will join Mary J. Blige and Alicia Keys as a headliner at the 2010 Essence Music Festival the July 4 weekend. Essence was the first magazine to feature Jackson on its cover, and her appearance at its festival will be her only North American concert appearance in 2010. Jackson joins a lineup that [...]
Alicia Keys and More Added to Essence Music Festival Lineup
February 23, 2010 – 12:29 pm
The Essence Music Festival continued to beef up this year’s lineup of stars, adding singer/pianist Alicia Keys as a headliner at the Independence Day weekend festival. Keys released her fourth studio album this past December, riding on the success of her guest turn on the Jay-Z hit, Empire State of Mind. Keys was not the [...]
