Essence Musical Festival is coming back to New Orleans
According to Newsday, The Essence Musical Festival is coming back to New Orleans, after moving to Houston last year while the city recovered from Hurricane Katrina. The musical festival, which is will take place next year on July 5-7, is known for its Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B and Soul performances at night, and during the day inspiring “empowerment seminars”.
Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, president of Essence Communications, said Louisiana has worked since a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina to make sure the state didn’t lose the festival, which was started in New Orleans in 1995 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Essence magazine.
Essence’s return to Louisiana sends the signal to the world that we are back in business. This major event, which attracts over 200,000 visitors each year, will be a shot in the arm for our economy and the thousands of small businesses and employers that rely on tourists.
- Landrieu said in a statement -
February 15th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Music is the best thing that happened to this world!!!!!!
Have y’ll check out the second tour by My Chemical Romance. Their music is really good such as The Black Parade. Here’s a very interesting press release about their tour.
For Immediate Release
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE ANNOUNCE SECOND LEG OF 2007 U.S. HEADLINING TOUR
Burbank, CA — Reprise Records’ My Chemical Romance will launch the second leg of their extensive tour in support of their Number One Rock album, the RIAA gold-certified, The Black Parade. The second round of the U.S. arena tour, produced by Art Show - a national touring division of Goldenvoice - will kick off in Houston, TX at the Reliant Arena. Tickets are on sale Saturday, February 10, 2007 via Ticketmaster.
The Black Parade, an epic theatrical concept album about mortality, has been named “Album Of The Year” by Blender Magazine, stating “My Chemical Romance transcended the cliché…to craft a grandiose epic that just might make them the biggest band in the world.” Rolling Stone says “The Black Parade is the best mid-Seventies record of 2006, a rabid, ingenious paraphrasing of echoes and kitsch from rock’s golden age of bombast.”
The week after its release, The Black Parade claimed the Number One spot on SoundScan’s Rock, Alternative, Top Albums Retailers, Indy/Small Chain, Internet, and Digital Album Charts. It also shot to Number 2 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart, selling more than 240,000 copies its first week of release. The first single, “Welcome To The Black Parade,” has enjoyed eight weeks at the top of the Alternative / Modern Rock Radio Charts in the U.S. and the singles chart for two consecutive weeks in the UK.