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NPG featuring ex-Prince sidemen will perform Super Bowl weekend at Dakota

Andre Cymone and Kip Blackshire will be featured singers.

By Jon Bream

November 29, 2017 at 12:21AM

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Andre Cymone (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

It's not just the big venues in the Twin Cities that will have special concerts during Super Bowl week. The Dakota Jazz Club has announced that NPG – a collection of former Prince musicians – will perform there on Feb. 2.

Andre Cymone and Kip Blackshire will be the featured vocalists in a band led by keyboardist Morris Hayes. Other players include drummer Kirk Johnson, keyboardist Tommy Barbarella, guitarist Levi Seacer, bassist Andrew Gouche, rapper Tony Mosley and dancer Damon Dickson.

Tickets will go on sale Friday at dakotacooks.com. There are performances at 7 and 9:30 p.m.

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.