Members of New Power Generation will pay tribute to Prince at Uptown Theater

New Power Generation bandmates Michael Bland and Sonny Thompson will lead a bill of onetime Prince associates and those influenced by him on April 20 at the Uptown Theater in Minneapolis.

General admission tickets are $48 and seats are priced from $148.70 to $82 and are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

Dubbed 2Gether: Celebrating the Music and Life of Prince, the concert takes place the night before the eighth anniversary of Prince’s death.

Drummer Bland and bassist Thompson were among the musicians in New Power Generation, a band Prince formed in 1990. They went on to record a series of albums with the Purple One, including 1991’s “Diamonds and Pearls.” Various versions of NPG backed up Prince through 2013 and reunited to play on the final album of his life, 2015’s “Hit n Run Phase Two.”

Bland and Thompson’s band (BR)OTHERS will headline and will be joined on stage by fellow NPG vets Tommy Barbarella (keyboards), Levi Seacer Jr. (guitar) and Tony Mosley (vocals).

The rest of the lineup includes the Steeles (Jearlyn, Jevetta, Fred, J.D. and Billy), singer/songwriter Chastity Brown, Jesse Larson (“The Voice”), Margaret Cox (Ta Mara and the Seen, Dr. Mambo’s Combo), G Sharp (Urban Classic), Jay Bee (Urban Classic, the Routine) and the Urban Classic Horns (Scott Agster, Josh May and John Bertsch). Local rapper Nur-D will open the show.

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