**Road to Essence Festival Makes a Stop in Bentonville for a FREE Community Concert** Share this post! This year, for the 2nd year in a row, Bentonville is a host city for the Road to Essence Festival. Road to ESSENCE will take place at Tiger Stadium in Bentonville, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Doors open at 5:30pm, concert starts at 6:30pm. This free, family-fun event is open to the public, so invite your friends to take part! Tiger Stadium is located at 1901 SE J Street in Bentonville. Artists performing at this year’s event include Chrisette Michele, Chante Moore, BBD (Bell Biv Devoe) and host/DJ MC Lyte. More talent is expected to be announced soon! • Chrisette Michele, is a Grammy Award-winning R&B and soul singer-songwriter. She won a Grammy Award for Best Urban/Alternative Performance in 2009 for her song Be OK. • Chante Moore is an R&B and jazz singer and is also featured on the reality show, R&B Divas: Los Angeles. • Bell Biv DeVoe is the R&B/hip hop musical group that branched off from New Edition. It consists of three members of New Edition, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe. BBDs premiere album “Poison”, blending rhythm, blues, pop, and rock, and achieved triple Platinum success. • MC Lyte is a rapper who first gained fame in the late-1980s becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album with 1988s critically acclaimed Lyte as a Rock. She has long been considered one of hip-hops pioneer feminists. Bentonville is now on the map with a host of much larger cities like Atlanta, Chicago and Houston as a tour stop on the Road to Essence Tour. The tour is a way for artists to perform in communities along the way to the final destination - the 2014 Essence Festival in New Orleans, LA, July 3-6 Over the past 20 years, the Essence Festival, held in New Orleans, has grown to become the largest event to celebrate African-American culture and music in the United States. The action-packed festival features artists who perform on a main stage while other artists perform in four standing-room only super lounge areas. Artists in the past have included Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé. Prince is headlining this year’s event. Join us for the Road to ESSENCE festival in Bentonville, Saturday, May 31, 2014. We hope to see you there!
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:55:17 +0000
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