While the event is technically called the Essence Festival of Culture, one of its biggest draws is the nightly concert featuring some of the biggest names in Black music. But at the 2025 Essence Fest ...

Folk-pop superstars Noah Kahan and Ed Sheeran played a show for an unusually small crowd of about 100 people at Santa's Pub dive bar in Music City's Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood on April 22.