{"id":380,"date":"2010-07-07T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-02-24T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T04:18:11","slug":"essence-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/07\/essence-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/essence.com\/festival \" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"news-essence-music-festival\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/news-essence-music-festival.jpg\" alt=\"ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL\" width=\"350\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/news-essence-music-festival.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/news-essence-music-festival-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL<\/strong><br \/>\nJuly 2-4, New Orleans, La.<br \/>\nTop acts: Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys,<br \/>\nEarth Wind &amp; Fire, De La Soul<br \/>\nTickets: $159-636<br \/>\n2009 attendance: 270,000+<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/essence.com\/festival \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>essence.com\/festival <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Essence Music Festival was created 15 years ago by the lifestyle magazine for black women. Artists you\u2019ll find headlining the event embody the messages found in its pages: women whose music preaches empowerment and independence. Educational seminars on love and relationships, parenting and cultural issues are offered by leading sociologists and psychiatrists, but host Steve Harvey will be on hand to keep things light.<\/p>\n<p>[Summer Festivals \/ May 2010, M Music &amp; Musicians]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL July 2-4, New Orleans, La. Top acts: Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Earth Wind &amp; Fire, De La Soul Tickets: $159-636 2009 attendance: 270,000+ essence.com\/festival The Essence Music Festival was created 15 years ago by the lifestyle magazine for black women. Artists you\u2019ll find headlining the event embody the messages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1058],"tags":[147,70,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}