Essence Music Festival Information

The ‘Essence Music Festival’ is the main African-American gathering in the country. Every year the event welcomes some thousands of admirers for a festivity of African-American music & culture. The three-day occasion saw its' biggest spectators in 2010, when crowds entirely sold out the Louisiana Superdome, with over seventy two thousand attendees on the 15th year anniversary of the festival. People from all over the United States, north, south, east, and west attend the festival each year. 

There are as well hundreds if not thousands of worldwide attendees too. The mass is majority African-American, however people of all races are greeting & do attend the festival. The ‘Essence Music Festival’ is held every year on the first Friday, Saturday & Sunday in the month of July and it is held in New Orleans, Louisiana.