The Premiere Music & Cultural Festival - Summer New Orleans. The Essence Music Festival is the largest stateside gathering of African-Americans in the United States. It's where we all come together to celebrate entertainment and culture like no other festival in the world. Each year, over 400,000 people joined us in New Orleans, where we've been since 1993.
2013 LINEUP
Anthony David
Big Daddy Kane
Blackstreet
Brandy
Bridget Kelly
Charlie Wilson
F Stokes
Jill Scott
Jody Watley
Keyshia Cole
Kourtney Heart
Leela James
Les Nubians
LL Cool J
Maxwell
Mia Borders
Mint Condition
New Edition
13 Comments »
Stephanie Davis
October 21, 2012 at 11:34 am - Reply
Would like to know the 2013 line for essence festival. Attended 2012, and it was a blast. We went to the free concert on Sunday extremely awesome gospel line up.
I came out last year for the first time and we had a great time. If possible could you have Mint Condition,Alicia Keys and Will Downing on the lineup this year.
I’ve gone to 16 of the emf. I love it, I wonder why they won’t put Mint Condition on the main stage, the lines are sooooo long tripling around the escalators not a good thing. They even tried giving them several sets, hello that should have been a red flag/flashlight on their fanfare.
Tina Williams
February 16, 2013 at 1:56 pm - Reply
I would love to see more old school artist on the main stage.Patti Labelle, Chilites, Gladys, Manhattans,Midnight Star etc
I am in aggrenace with others we need to know in advance who is performing, what night and what stage. This is extremely important on how we plan our trip and based on the way we purchase tickets (i.e. either all three nights or just 2. Please consider this for future events. Also I have read the previous post and I see that others are expecting the same as well.
Thanks,
A loyal atteneder
Question for the past festival goers,I am only going to attend one night , most likely Saturady. What was the average cost of the ticket. Not purchasing a package.
why Mr A kelley never performs at essence is a puzzle to me as he is one of the best writers and musical genius ever and is never at the show I’ve been attending for at 6 to 7 times but would be estatic if he was performing .
Does anyone no how to become a seatfiller my first year I had the pleasure of being right up front it was wonderful FYI if you have this info please reply to this message
WHERE: New Orleans, LA
Would like to know the 2013 line for essence festival. Attended 2012, and it was a blast. We went to the free concert on Sunday extremely awesome gospel line up.
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I came out last year for the first time and we had a great time. If possible could you have Mint Condition,Alicia Keys and Will Downing on the lineup this year.
I’ve gone to 16 of the emf. I love it, I wonder why they won’t put Mint Condition on the main stage, the lines are sooooo long tripling around the escalators not a good thing. They even tried giving them several sets, hello that should have been a red flag/flashlight on their fanfare.
I would love to see more old school artist on the main stage.Patti Labelle, Chilites, Gladys, Manhattans,Midnight Star etc
I am in aggrenace with others we need to know in advance who is performing, what night and what stage. This is extremely important on how we plan our trip and based on the way we purchase tickets (i.e. either all three nights or just 2. Please consider this for future events. Also I have read the previous post and I see that others are expecting the same as well.
Thanks,
A loyal atteneder
Question for the past festival goers,I am only going to attend one night , most likely Saturady. What was the average cost of the ticket. Not purchasing a package.
why Mr A kelley never performs at essence is a puzzle to me as he is one of the best writers and musical genius ever and is never at the show I’ve been attending for at 6 to 7 times but would be estatic if he was performing .
why a kelly never performs at essence it amnazes me
first time going. are you able to purchase single night tickets? if so,when?
Did you ever find out about how to purchase single tickets?
Here’s a link to nightly lineup … Have fun & be safe :)
http://goo.gl/V94W5
Does anyone no how to become a seatfiller my first year I had the pleasure of being right up front it was wonderful FYI if you have this info please reply to this message