00:00Hey everybody, Janelle Snowden here with my girl, Estelle, who is bringing an all-new experience to the 25th anniversary of the Essence Festival, and she's going to tell you all about it.
00:09We're headlining the first After Dark series, Reggae Afrobeats Dance All Night, which I'm so excited to be bringing.
00:16It's where I come from, it's what's heavily influenced me, soca music, African music, so I'm just hyped to be able to focus on that this year and bring some of my favorite artists to come perform with me and vibes out and just, you know, show America how we get down over here.
00:32Drop the names, who's calling, who you got?
00:34We got the legend Mashamantano, we got the popular pop gal, Spice, we got Cranium, we got Rotimi, we got Wale, because he had to represent for the Nigerians.
00:44So as you see, it's a good crossover of like American and international and West Indian artists, too, so, and African artists, so I'm just, I'm hyped, it's going to be a time.
00:52So is there food here with all of that? I feel like you got to have like some jollof rice, right?
00:56You know what, bring your pots of jollof, we will let you in at the door if you have jollof.
01:00If you have jollof, bring.
01:01Yes.
01:02If you have patties, bring.
01:03Yes.
01:04Some doubles.
01:05Some doubles, some curry goat, bring.
01:07You get free entry with some, with a plate of food.
01:10It's going to be a party.
01:11I don't want anyone to come here and think, oh, we're just going to stand up and kind of like clap and be polite and sway.
01:15I want you to come ready to dance and have fun fun.
01:18That means bring your comfy shoes.
01:19It's cute for comfy.
01:20Yeah, come in your trainers, I don't care.
01:22Come in your sneakers, come in your chucks, come in your flats.
01:24Yes.
01:25Just come ready to party and dance because that's the vibe and the energy that we're bringing.
01:29It's just going to be a party every single night after the dome at like 10 p.m. until about 2, 3 in the morning.
01:35And you know what I'm going to keep going.
01:36Yeah.
01:37New Orleans is the other city that doesn't sleep.
01:40Yeah, it's the other city that don't sleep and they party.
01:42So, we're just going to, it's going to be a good time.
01:44So, when you finish at the dome, come on over to Republic.
01:47It's going to be a time.
01:47Get your tickets early.
01:48And you're just going to be standing outside like, oh, I missed it.
01:51You don't want to be that person.
01:52You don't want to be that person.
01:53Don't be that person.
01:53Don't be that guy.
01:54Yeah.
01:55So, this is the After Dark Experience curated by the one and only Estelle at Republic, July 5th.
02:00Yes, and I'm hearing there might be some food.
02:03If you don't do anything about this one, she can cook.
02:05And she might be bringing a little something straight from her kitchen to the After Dark Experience.
02:10You never know.
02:11It might go down, guys.
02:12For more info, go to essencefestival.com.
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