Funk Legend George Clinton To Celebrate 50 Years Of ‘The Mothership’ At ESSENCE Fest 2026

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By Victoria Uwumarogie ·Updated March 26, 2026 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Long before today’s superstars brought spectacle to the stage, offering performance art as opposed to simply a performance, an incredible thing happened: A Black man descended upon a stage from a spaceship.

The man in question was George Clinton. The night in question: Oct. 27, 1976. The stage: The Municipal Auditorium in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. The spacecraft:

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