{"id":451390,"date":"2011-06-30T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/essence-music-festival-in-new-orleans-kanye-west-usher-and-jennifer-hudson-will-perform\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T23:35:00","slug":"essence-music-festival-in-new-orleans-kanye-west-usher-and-jennifer-hudson-will-perform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/essence-music-festival-in-new-orleans-kanye-west-usher-and-jennifer-hudson-will-perform\/","title":{"rendered":"Essence Music Festival in New Orleans: Kanye West, Usher and Jennifer Hudson Will Perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"42.5142857143\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/people\/i\/2008\/features\/tvblog\/080526\/usher_240x320.jpg\" alt=\"Essence Music Festival in New Orleans: Kanye West, Usher and Jennifer Hudson Will Perform | Usher\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" width=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Usher<\/p>\n<p>Mark Allan\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As if seeing New Edition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20505529,00.html\">reunite after 30<\/a> years isn&#8217;t enough, fans of hip-hop and R&#038;B can catch a slew of other stellar old \u2013 and newer \u2013 musicians&#8217; performances over fourth of July weekend at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essencemusicfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essence Music Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From start to finish of the three-day event, power acts like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/usher\">Usher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a>, Chaka Khan and Boyz II Men will grace one of five stages for guests of the New Orleans-based celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Each night, artists start at around 7:00 P.M. and end at approximately 11:30 P.M. Other acts at the event include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/jennifer_hudson\">Jennifer Hudson<\/a>, Naughty by Nature, Trey Songz, Mary J. Blige and MC Lyte.<br \/>\u2013 <em>Dahvi Shira<\/em>     <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.people.com\/~r\/people\/headlines\/~3\/DsQ91X5zwJA\/0,,20507148,00.html\" title=\"Essence Music Festival in New Orleans: Kanye West, Usher and Jennifer Hudson Will Perform\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Essence Music Festival in New Orleans: Kanye West, Usher and Jennifer Hudson Will Perform<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Usher Mark Allan\/WireImage As if seeing New Edition reunite after 30 years isn&#8217;t enough, fans of hip-hop and R&#038;B can catch a slew of other stellar old \u2013 and newer \u2013 musicians&#8217; performances over fourth of July weekend at the Essence Music Festival . From start to finish of the three-day event, power acts like Usher , Kanye West , Chaka Khan and Boyz II Men will grace one of five stages for guests of the New Orleans-based celebration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Essence Music Festival in New Orleans: Kanye West, Usher and Jennifer Hudson Will Perform - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/essence-music-festival-in-new-orleans-kanye-west-usher-and-jennifer-hudson-will-perform\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Essence Music Festival in New Orleans: Kanye West, Usher and Jennifer Hudson Will Perform - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Usher Mark Allan\/WireImage As if seeing New Edition reunite after 30 years isn&#039;t enough, fans of hip-hop and R&amp;B can catch a slew of other stellar old \u2013 and newer \u2013 musicians&#039; performances over fourth of July weekend at the Essence Music Festival . 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