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SUMMARY:The Purple Experience
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuy Tickets ( https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/37771702/the-purple-experience-marion-marion-cultural-civic-center )\n\nMCCC presents\nThe Purple Experience\nStarring Marshall Charloff\nMay 1\n7pm\nTickets: $39.10 – $81.50\nIn Partnership with River Radio\nMarshall Charloff & Purple xPeRIeNCE is the most celebrated tribute to Prince in the world.\nThe group was co-founded by Marshall and Matt “Doctor” Fink (keyboardist from Prince & The\nRevolution) in 2011, an era where Prince closely monitored the use of his art. Their vision was\nto deliver Prince’s music on the highest level, played live and untracked by skilled musicians,\nwhile paying respectful visual homage through costuming and likeness.\nImmediately met with success and adoration from discerning Prince devotees, the band has\nnow been touring for over a decade, nationwide and internationally, and has performed for over\n500,000 fans. In 2019, they were officially licensed by the Prince Estate, and in 2021, Marshall\nCharloff & The Purple xPeRIeNCE were selected by the US Department of State to be featured\nin the USA Pavilion of the World Expo in Dubai.\nMinneapolis-native Marshall was raised in the epicenter of 1980’s music production, and cut his\nmusical teeth working with Superproducers John Fields and Steven “Funkytown” Greenberg. At\nage 19, Marshall, like Prince, was discovered and signed by producer Pepe Willie. Marshall is\nfeatured on 94 East albums with Prince, where he plays guitar and Prince is on vocals.\nA multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer in his own right, Marshall has written for,\nproduced, and recorded for the multi-Platinum and Grammy award-winning Commodores and\nfor Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Little Anthony & The Imperials. Marshall’s second original album,\n“Unperfect” achieved the distinction of “Top 100 Albums of 2020” on global smooth jazz charts.\nMarshall has also played keys for the Atlanta Rhythm Section, and has played bass guitar with\nBobby “Z”, Matt “Dr. Fink”, and Andre Cymone (all Prince alumni players).\nIn addition to his work with The Purple xPeRIeNCE, Marshall has had the honor of fronting 25 of\nthe finest symphonies in North America, performing the music of Prince to great acclaim. He has\nbeen the feature of two full-length PBS Broadcasts; fronting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,\nand fronting The Purple xPeRIeNCE in the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison,\nColorado.\nMarshall completed a Las Vegas residency, where he headlined starring in “Purple Piano: The\nWorld’s Only One-Man Tribute to Prince”–a highly-engaging show in the style of Prince’s final\ntour, “Piano and a Microphone”. This production continues to tour nationwide, interspersed with\nfull band performances.\nIn all of his avenues of honoring Prince, Marshall’s vocals are uncannily accurate, his guitar and\npiano skills are masterful, and his endearing stage presence is irresistible in its paradox of\nfinesse and reverence.\nMarshall Charloff’s all-star band, Purple Xperience, hosts a number of world-class players,\nincluding Tracey Blake on lead guitar (played with New Power generation, Sons of Almighty\nfeaturing members of NPG, Tracey Blake Project, Westside: inducted in the Midwest hall of\nfame), Ron Long on bass guitar (played with Christina Aguilera, The Backstreet Boys, 98°,\nalso\nrecorded with John L., Larry Blackman of Cameo, and Spike Lee), Ron Caron on drums (played\nwith the Rembrandts, Tina and the B sides, The Melismatics). Cory Eischen on keys (played\nwith New Power Generation, Prince’s protégé group: Mazarati, Soul Asylum’s Dave Pirner and\nDan Wilson from Semisonic).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:800 Tower Square Plaza | Marion, IL 62959
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