{"id":265,"date":"2010-10-14T19:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2010-10-18T04:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T04:46:56","slug":"prince-announces-new-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Prince Announces New Tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to sit still for too long, <strong>Prince<\/strong>, 52, announced a new series of\u00a0star-studded live shows at a press conference yesterday at NYC&#8217;s famed\u00a0Apollo Theater in Harlem.<\/p>\n<p>Adorned in gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses and a black turtleneck with his <em>21 Nights In London<\/em> DVD flashing on a projector behind him, the legendary pop wunderkind announced the shows, titled &#8220;Welcome 2 America,&#8221; which will feature guest stars including his &#8220;favorite new artist&#8221; <strong>Janelle Monae<\/strong>, the legendary <strong>Maceo Parker<\/strong>, <strong>Mint Condition<\/strong>, <strong>Esperanza Spalding<\/strong> and famed funk outfit <strong>Graham Central Station<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Though no specific dates, cities or venues were announced, the shows are\u00a0scheduled to kick off in December and will feature Prince playing a\u00a0gold-plated Fender guitar that will be auctioned off at the end of the live\u00a0run with proceeds beneftting the Harlem Children&#8217;s Zone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nights of entertainment will feature some of the best artists this country has to offer,&#8221; Prince promised reporters. &#8220;They know what time it is. So come early and come often, because every time we play it&#8217;s always\u00a0something new. No two shows will be the same. I have a lot of hits.\u00a0Bring your friends, bring your children, bring your own foot spray &#8212;\u00a0it&#8217;s going to be funky!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<strong>Ian Drew<\/strong> for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/\">UsMagazine.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis Group International has entered into an agreement with 5th Degree Promotions for the entertainment capital raise of funds to bring an additional 80 arena\/stadium shows in 39 cities for Prince&#8217;s U.S. Live Tour.  by Administrator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}