Maybe someone else has mentioned this already as the calendar has been available a long time, but I just noticed this morning that on Prince's 2003 calendar the dates june 19th through 22nd are circled. Can anyone comment on the significance of this? I didn't notice any other dates circled but I didn't look through in too much detail.

[I don't know which calendar you're referring to here, on NPGMC? Well, anyhow, interesting. Maybe someone can comment and shed some light on it. -Ben]

machinegun said:

This was the source of the suspected dates for a 2003 Celebration.

hehe...kind of funny...cause I thought this was old news.
the dates are circled on the Prince and the NPG all access calender 2003, I think most of us assumed that these would be the dates of the celebration this year but...appartenly not. What it appears to be now is the release of the new N.E.W.S album. which happens to be only 4 songs and I THINK one song a day will be available for listening starting on the 19th.

I had noticed this also, the 19th through the 22nd are circled on the Prince 2003 all access calendar that I got from the NPG site. I just kinda figured that would have been the days for the cele that seems to not be happening this year! Bummer!!!

Prince:

"Uhm, note 2 self...remember 2 buy June 19 a birthday gift...whooops scratch that...a "Celebration Gift"..."

Yeah I also have noticed that.

I am pretty sure he will do something at Paisley Park this Friday night.~Fingers crossed~...

MinneapolisFunk said:

crossin my fingas, 2...

MinneapolisFunk said:

Naah, he'll be out seeing the HULK movie.



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SANSKER7 said:

Well... for anyone even vaguely interested in American history, June 19th is a major date.

"Juneteenth" celebrates the official freeing of the last black slaves (in Texas...which held out until Union troops went in to enforce Lincoln's proclamation).

just a thought, since most folks don't know about this black american holiday. He might be linking that celebration with his own. he uhh... has use the word Slave once or twice hasn't he? LOL

JumpUpOnThe1 said:

Well, I don't think he's a very big fan of Lincoln anyways, so I doubt that is why he circled it.

But even if he did want to recognize this day, that still wouldn't explain the 20-22 days.

savoirfaire said:

i beleive this is the online party on his offical site for his new release "NEWS". NRGMUSIC CLUB mentioned that it will be a 4 day event

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I'm crossing my fingers for you!

nesseone said:

uhh...its really not meant to honor Lincoln my friends

There's no obvious reason to choose the 19th of June, and given the date's importance... like i said, he may have chose to open his celebration with it. I wasn't trying to imply there'd be a 4 day black power revival or anything LOL.

or maybe because it's a Catholic (Christian) holiday - Corpus Christi I believe is the English name for it...

but naturally I'm talking nonsense - unless JW's celebrate this day somehow...

btw, I am overjoyed by the fact that it is a Catholic holiday - for me it means a day off by law!!!

ohmygod

:holding head in hands:

This is turning into the new One Man Jam...

uhh...its really not meant to honor Lincoln my friends

There's no obvious reason to choose the 19th of June, and given the date's importance... like i said, he may have chose to open his celebration with it. I wasn't trying to imply there'd be a 4 day black power revival or anything LOL.[/quote]


Maybe Prince was hanging out at the org one day...

And liked my name so much...

He released an album...

Prince is dropping a new album? I can't wait.

The news about Prince having the date of June 19 circled on the NPG calender is very old news.

June19 said:

I remember 2 years ago when I met Prince he told me to not celebrate birthdays...but darn now he has gone and released a new cd for my present...

Wild guess:

19th--North available for download/purchase
20th--East available for download/purchase
21st--West available for download/purchase
22nd--South available for download/purchase

Natsume said:

BanishedBrian said:

Cool!

Ok,
let's assume he'd anticipated those dates for a CD release more than six months ago (... I sincerely doubt about it, but why not...).

When are the other circled dates on the calendar ?

Yes, as another mentioned. Is is, in fact Juneteenth. A major marking in African-American History. And, with Prince being so into studying and teaching this history, I think he would make a notation. Especially within his studies on Lincoln. Remember the script that was scrolling on stage during One Night Alone Live. I was fortunate enought to enjoy it in NYC last April. I was a little discouraged though, when he went on about history and all. I LOVE PRINCE and his musical talents and have since at least the 1999 albumn. I just hope he keeps tha funk alive and kickin'. I've never been a fan of history. Especially since we aren't tought the whole truth.

At first it looked as if Prince was going to have anctual music celebration like he has done since 2000.I kind of doubt Prince knew he would be at this point with this N-E-W-S download of music way back before December when he printed the calendars that stated proposed dates for "a celebration" I think he just got too busy with recording this new music and putting together a DVD of his December show in Las Vegas that he decided not to have another celebration.At least this year.Last year is a tough one to top anyways.I mean come on,7 solid nights of performing?It was awesome.Another slant on this topic might be that he was tired of the work the went into putting on such an event.The air conditioning problem and the attempted theft of memorabilia is enough to give him a bad vibe I am sure...Just my thoughts,MinnneapolisFunk

The 19th day of each month is laundry day at Paisley Park. I thought everyone knew that.