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Prince Is About To Start Throwing Surprise Concerts All Over North America
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BY AIDIN VAZIRI
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Cancel your Oscars party: Prince has announced that the first North American date of his Piano and a Microphone tour will take place Sunday, Feb. 28 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.
The singer-songwriter is set to play a pair of back-to-back shows, at 7 and 10 p.m., revisiting his hits and rarities, as well as tracks from his 39th studio album, "HITnRUN Phase II," in an intimate solo setting.
The setlist for his recent Australian dates included classics like "Let's Go Crazy," "Raspberry Beret," "Controversy," "Little Red Corvette" and covers of Sly & the Family Stone's "Stand" and Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You."
At a stop at the Arts Center Playhouse in Melbourne, the 57-year-old singer dedicated his set to Denise "Vanity" Matthews-Smith, his long-time protege who died at a hospital in Fremont on Feb. 15, filling the concert with songs and stories about the Vanity 6 front woman.
"I am new to this playing alone," he said. "I thank you all for being so patient."
Tickets for the Oakland performances, ranging in price from $99 to $275, go on sale at noon Wednesday, Feb. 24 through Ticketmaster.
In an effort to ward off scalpers, promoter Live Nation is using paperless tickets. Purchasers will only be able to redeem their tickets in person the night of the show using the ID and credit card used to purchase the tickets, and must enter the venue at the time they present their information.
Plans to take the tour to Europe last year were scrapped following the terrorist attacks at the Bataclan in Paris. During a press conference for those dates, Prince said he wanted to do this tour because he gets so few bad reviews he needed the challenge.
"Like tying one hand behind my back, not relying on the craft that I've known for 30 years," he said. "I won't know what songs I'm going to do when I go on stage, I really won't. I won't have to, because I won't have a band. Tempo, keys, all those things can dictate what song I'm going to play next, you know, as opposed to, 'Oh, I've got to do my hit single now, I've got to play this album all the way through,' or whatever. There's so much material, it's hard to choose."
Prince Is About To Start Throwing Surprise Concerts All Over North America
Your city could be next.
BY AIDIN VAZIRI
12.8k
Cancel your Oscars party: Prince has announced that the first North American date of his Piano and a Microphone tour will take place Sunday, Feb. 28 at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.
The singer-songwriter is set to play a pair of back-to-back shows, at 7 and 10 p.m., revisiting his hits and rarities, as well as tracks from his 39th studio album, "HITnRUN Phase II," in an intimate solo setting.
The setlist for his recent Australian dates included classics like "Let's Go Crazy," "Raspberry Beret," "Controversy," "Little Red Corvette" and covers of Sly & the Family Stone's "Stand" and Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You."
At a stop at the Arts Center Playhouse in Melbourne, the 57-year-old singer dedicated his set to Denise "Vanity" Matthews-Smith, his long-time protege who died at a hospital in Fremont on Feb. 15, filling the concert with songs and stories about the Vanity 6 front woman.
"I am new to this playing alone," he said. "I thank you all for being so patient."
Tickets for the Oakland performances, ranging in price from $99 to $275, go on sale at noon Wednesday, Feb. 24 through Ticketmaster.
In an effort to ward off scalpers, promoter Live Nation is using paperless tickets. Purchasers will only be able to redeem their tickets in person the night of the show using the ID and credit card used to purchase the tickets, and must enter the venue at the time they present their information.
Plans to take the tour to Europe last year were scrapped following the terrorist attacks at the Bataclan in Paris. During a press conference for those dates, Prince said he wanted to do this tour because he gets so few bad reviews he needed the challenge.
"Like tying one hand behind my back, not relying on the craft that I've known for 30 years," he said. "I won't know what songs I'm going to do when I go on stage, I really won't. I won't have to, because I won't have a band. Tempo, keys, all those things can dictate what song I'm going to play next, you know, as opposed to, 'Oh, I've got to do my hit single now, I've got to play this album all the way through,' or whatever. There's so much material, it's hard to choose."
Prince Is About To Start Throwing Surprise Concerts All Over North America
