The All For You singer attended the show with fellow musician and longtime friend Maxwell, who recently performed a headlining set at the 2025 Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Like Maxwell, this ...

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 ...

Thousands of Essence Festival visitors flew home Monday (July 7) giving generally high marks for the event. “It was a good ...

Big Machine Label Group is launching a new imprint called Ascend Music in partnership with music industry executive Joel ...

"There’s a glaring gap in the market, it’s a no-brainer for us to do New York," Summit tells The Hollywood Reporter of ...

Has Essence Fest jumped the shark? Keith Spera spills the tea - Long lines, late acts, logistical logjams and more mar the image of a once-great music and culture festival ...

Mounting a free music festival with eight stages across Metro Cebu – seven of which ran concurrently on June 28 and featured over 63 artists – was ambitious for Fête de la Musique Cebu. But thanks to ...

Essence has stepped in to make it crystal clear that no slander against Ms. Lauryn Hill will be tolerated following her ...

Representatives for the 31st iteration of Essence Festival are taking the brunt of the blame for Ms. Lauryn Hill’s extremely late set time during the first night of the four-day festival this past ...

Lauryn Hill fans were disappointed after her last-minute performance at Essence Fest was delayed by several hours, but this ...

Stephanie Mills has penned an open letter to the organizers of the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture, detailing the ...

The organizers of Essence Festival have defended Lauryn Hill after her headline show was so delayed she ended up performing ...