Beyonce to conclude her ‘Renaissance’ tour at the Superdome in New Orleans
The upcoming stadium tour for Beyonce’s “Renaissance” album will end in one of the cities that has influenced her music in recent years: New Orleans.
The “Renaissance” tour is scheduled to conclude at the Caesars Superdome on Sept. 27. Tickets, according to Beyonce’s website, will go on sale “soon.”
She is no stranger to the Superdome. Her most recent visit was on Sept. 13, 2018, when she and husband Jay-Z brought their On the Run II tour to town. The couple also performed in the Dome for their first On the Run tour, in 2014.
Beyonce filled the Dome on her own during her Formation tour on Sept. 24, 2016.
She has also made multiple appearances at the Essence Festival of Culture in the Dome. And she performed at halftime of the 2013 Super Bowl, the game where the power in the Superdome briefly went out.
New Orleans bounce music has been a source of inspiration and collaboration for Beyonce on recent albums.
She opened her show at the 2013 Essence Festival in the Superdome by stating, “This city has inspired my music so much.”
After her sister, Solange, settled in New Orleans, Beyonce sightings became more common. She was spotted bicycling in Faubourg Marigny, attending parties in the French Quarter and second-lining after Solange’s wedding at the Marigny Opera House.
Her 2016 song “Formation” opens with a snippet of the late New Orleans rapper and YouTube provocateur Messy Mya. Later, New Orleans bounce queen Big Freedia chimes in.
The “Formation” video used images from a 10-minute 2013 documentary about New Orleans bounce rap called “That B.E.A.T.,” including a brief B-roll shot of four drum majors from Edna Karr High School on the West Bank. The video, somewhat controversially, also contained numerous Hurricane Katrina references. Most prominent is an extended sequence with Beyoncé atop a New Orleans police cruiser on a flooded street
More recently, Big Freedia’s 2014 song “Explode” is sampled prominently on “Break My Soul,” the first single from “Renaissance.”
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