Essence Music Festival - Saturday Caesars Superdome New Orleans

The Caesars Superdome, previously the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, is a domed sport and exhibition venue that is often known as the Superdome. It is located at 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana. It has a seating capacity of 73,208 for American Football, 73,432 for basketball, and 56,941 for baseball. The record attendance was made at this venue on April 8, 2018, at WrestleMania 34. The venue was inaugurated on August 3, 1975, with a construction cost of US$134 million. It underwent renovation at the expense of US$193 million (2005-6). Curtis and Davis Associated, Edward B. Silverstein & Associates, and Nolan, Norman & Nolan designed the architecture of the building.

The venue serves as the current home to New Orleans Saints NFL, New Orleans Bowl, and Sugar Bow NCAA. The dome structure of the Superdome is the world's largest fixed dome structure. Hurricane Katrina severely damaged it in 2005.

The Superdome serves home regularly to some major sports events including Super Bowl, Final Four college basketball, and College Football Championship Game. Some popular performances held at the venue are by Dorothy Lamour, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Cheryl Jhuren, Isley Brothers, Waylon Jennings, June Carter, Merle Haggard, The Emotions, Earth, Wind and Fire, Aretha Franklin, The Spinners, and several more. Governor Edwin Edwards held his third inaugural ball at the Superdome on March 12, 1984. Essence Music Festival is also held annually here along with Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour, American Tour 1981, US Tour 1978, Faith World Tour, etc.