It's a big weekend for New Orleans. The annual ESSENCE Festival visits the city once again, and July 4 fireworks will light ...

According to Kelly Shultz, Vice President of Communications with New Orleans & Co., there are 26,000 hotel rooms within a ...

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 ...

Essence Festival in New Orleans celebrates Black culture, music, Disney's Tiana exhibit, Hulu's "Reasonable Doubt" and "Nat ...

New Orleans & Co. has curated a cool lineup of diverse summer events, conventions, and cultural celebrations taking place ...

Jermaine Dupri told USA TODAY that he plans to execute the "tribute of all tributes" at Essence Fest in New Orleans on July 6 ...

Essence Festival is celebrating 31 years of culture and excellence in New Orleans, featuring over 200 vendors.

New Orleans Jazz Festival’s 2025 schedule. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival kicks off this year on the last weekend of April, followed by a second weekend at the start of May.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JULY 06: (L-R) Bettina Fisher, Janet Hubert and Taylor K. Shaw speak onstage for the “Animating ...

Festival organizers announced in January that Pearl Jam, Luke Combs and Lil Wayne will headline the 10-day "cultural feast" in New Orleans, which runs from April 24 through May 4.

By SHARON LURYE NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival each spring is known for hosting some of the world’s most famous jazz, funk and rock acts. Yet it’s also become ...

Guide: New Orleans' music and food at the French Quarter Festival, April 10-13. Mindaugas Dulinskas/Getty Images This year, the festival is going cashless, according to the festival's Facebook page .