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Essence Fest and New Orleans clash over payments and contract
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:37 pm
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:37 pm
The future of the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans is uncertain as festival organizers and city officials remain at odds over outstanding payments and other contract terms. Essence Fest says its intention is to stay in New Orleans, but disagreements over money and vendor payments have raised questions about whether Essence Fest will return.
quote:Essence Festival organizers say there are still outstanding issues that must be resolved before they can move forward with the city. New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno is also expressing frustration over stalled negotiations, saying it feels like they're "going around in circles". One major point of contention involves payments to festival vendors. The mayor said she became concerned after hearing reports that some vendors still have yet to be paid.
“It’s an existential threat if we are being moved out of our house without knowing it and we have no place to go and what we cannot do is have that institution and not have a place to be," Kirk McDonald, CEO of Sundial Media Group — the organization that puts on Essence Fest, said Thursday.
quote:I don’t believe that all these Kangs and kweens who invented everything didn’t pay their bills
Once we started to find out from some vendors that they once again hadn't been paid, and that to me was very problematic. And some of these vendors, we're talking about local companies, and these are not large businesses. These are local companies that really need those dollars," she told us Thursday
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:40 pm to BowDownToLSU
The very idea that they were belligerent, while also being deadbeats is very surprising.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:41 pm to BowDownToLSU
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The mayor said she became concerned after hearing reports that some vendors still have yet to be paid.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:44 pm to Jizzy08
And they blamed it on the city haven’t paying the festival yet even though the city paid them in July. Sounds like they are full of shite and hopefully move to Atlanta.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:46 pm to BigPerm30
Please? Never lose hope
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:47 pm to BowDownToLSU
It's them again isn't it?
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:49 pm to Jizzy08
Essence doesn’t want to pay…isn’t that the what always happens?
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:50 pm to BowDownToLSU
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we are being moved out of our house
Talk about being entitled.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 8:53 pm to BowDownToLSU
Could they hold the festival on a Carnival Cruise ship?
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:07 pm to BowDownToLSU
Let them go to another city. Maybe we can have a more inclusive event for all people on the Fourth of July in New Orleans instead of catering to the colored folks.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:22 pm to Cage Fighter Trainee
Be honest, what kind of other event and how many people would attend during July in Nola?
Essence, until recently, was a good event for the city and most of the out of town people who came were classier and spent a lot more money than the Bayou Classic crowd.
It has started going downhill in the last five years or so.
Essence, until recently, was a good event for the city and most of the out of town people who came were classier and spent a lot more money than the Bayou Classic crowd.
It has started going downhill in the last five years or so.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:23 pm to BowDownToLSU
Racist
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:25 pm to BowDownToLSU
Looks like restaurants are going to have to start opening on 4th of July weekend again.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:26 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Moreno should tell Essence to hit the road. Please go to Houston or Atlanta or anywhere. Deadbeats, haven’t paid the vendors and want alot of funding from the city. Bye.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:28 pm to BowDownToLSU
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The future of the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans is uncertain
And the good people of NOLA rejoice
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:29 pm to HeadSlash
quote:I’m sure it’s YT folks fault somehow. The real winners are the waiters and waitresses
Racist
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:29 pm to notiger1997
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Essence, until recently, was a good event for the city
Come back?
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:38 pm to Rebel
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Come back?
It used to have some good musical acts and such. The time around July 4th is just dead as shite in the city and it was a decent bump in tourism.
Posted on 10/30/26 at 9:43 pm to BowDownToLSU
Federal NGO funding dried up and now we can't have Essence?
Where will the race baiters get their next meal?
Where will the race baiters get their next meal?
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