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Prince Funds High School Music Trip 01 May 2013Pop superstar Prince reportedly donated the proceeds from a recent concert to help a high school jazz band reach a competition in New York City. The Kiss hitmaker played at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon on 21 April (13) and he pledged the proceeds to the American Music Program, which is made up of young musicians from local schools The group will now be able to take part in Essentially Ellington, a contest and educational festival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, which runs from 10-12 May (13).
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That is AWESOME! | |
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Awesome!
Thanks Prince for your generosity and kindness in helping these kids. ![]() Ohh purple joy oh purple bliss oh purple rapture! REAL MUSIC by REAL MUSICIANS - Prince "I kind of wish there was a reason for Prince to make the site crash more" ~~ Ben |
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Well done!
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Prince is pretty awesome. | |
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Fantastic!
Plus it gives him a farm team for the band on his NEXT tour -
11thGradeChicks. [Edited 5/1/13 10:55am] | |
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That's sweet of him, God bless him. | |
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Nice. | |
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That's so Cool! Pray Daily!!!!! RIP AMY WINEHOUSE Keep Calm, Carry on | |
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RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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Gifted and generous...pretty powerful combination. Hats off to the Purple Yoda! 1 over Jordan...the greatest since | |
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thats very sweet of him CCMCC Graduate.... | |
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"That's when stars collide. When there's space for what u want, and ur heart is open wide." | |
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bobzilla77 said:Fantastic! Plus it gives him a farm team for the band on his NEXT tour - 11thGradeChicks.[Edited 5/1/13 10:55am] omg ![]() | |
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That's nice of him and I'm glad he is helping a jazz band! When the power of love overcomes the love of power,the world will know peace -Jimi Hendrix | |
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Jazz....? . Hmmmm... . okay............. . . . . edit: hiphop & jazz just isn't my cup o' tea... . give me rock, funk, pop, soul, disco.... instead.. [Edited 5/2/13 3:35am] Prince 4Ever. ![]() | |
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Very cool! ![]() PaisleyRose was here ![]() | |
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Cause it's all about you, right?......... | |
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He donated the money, with the stipulation that they have to play selections from Kamasutra and N.E.W.S. in their competition!
Seriously though, this is really great news. It's definitely a good thing for Prince to give back and this stage of his career. A lot of his peers (Bono, Sting, etc) are almost as well-known for their charity work as they are for their music.
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Calm down, of course this isn't "about me", silly... . it's a good thing, that Prince is thinking of others/ supporting a band, but why did he choose jazz music... that was what I was surprised about, in my comment above... . but yeah charity, supporting a good cause, who can be against that.. . let's hope Prince will follow that road, and get a lot of "positive press" out of this, I guess that's the main reason why people are "doing charity" anyway, isn't it..... . . but, I don't like jazz at all.. NEWS is so terrible... it's an opinion, "it's time 4 jazz 2 die" like he wrote back then - whatever he meant by that, I guess he's changed his mind several times about that....... . the ONA Tour was jazzy a decade ago, and like I mentioned, NEWS, -- I hope it is ok to speak my opinion, I am not that crazy about that. . I have seen Prince live 19 times since '87, but the jazzy concerts like the 2 ONA concerts in Aalborg and Copenhagen, weren't my faves. SOTT, Lovesexy, Gold and O2 London were better --- Peace.... we can't agree on everything, right?.. .
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that was awesome:-) thanks prince. | |
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I am happy about this. There were people griping about the sudden 100 $100 tix prince dropped in Portland "for charity" the day of the concert. Other fans who payed the $175 were complaing on the FB Roseland page. Really he did 2 sets of people a favor that night. The HS kids and the fans who could better afford $100. I am thinking it was a second chance for some fans. [Edited 5/2/13 19:32pm] No matter the ©️, Paisley Park "official can never ™️ ![]() ![]() | |
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Awww he's so sweet. I ❤ him. ![]() | |
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One of the reasons why I love this guy. He is royalty but he always has one foot planted in his roots. | |
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