The Prince celebrations will continue at Rock the Garden this year. Fresh off last week's Paisley Park gigs, his "Purple Rain"-era bandmates in the Revolution are among the names newly announced to join Bon Iver at the July 22 music fest outside Walker Art Center. Other acts will include hard-boogying New Orleans rocker Benjamin Booker, indie-rock wunderkinds Car Seat Headrest and "You and I" singer Margaret Glaspy. The festival will also feature an all-local second stage in the Walker's newly refurbished sculpture garden, with Dave Simonett's Dead Man Winter, bombastic teen punks Bruise Violet and prolific 23-year-old rapper Dwynell Roland.
Almost two-thirds of RTG 2017's tickets were already sold after Bon Iver was revealed as the headliner in December. The rest go on sale for Walker and Minnesota Public Radio members starting Wednesday at 10 a.m. for $69 via RocktheGardenFestival.com. If not sold out, tickets go on sale to everyone else Friday.
More concert news: Kings of Leon booked an Oct. 18 date at the Xcel Energy Center, part of a fall trek behind last year's album, "Walls." The Tennessee rockers tapped another band with siblings to open, Dawes.
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Elton John cancels April, May shows
Elton John has canceled more than a month of upcoming shows after contracting a bacterial infection during a South America tour that left him in intensive care for two nights. John is scrapping all upcoming April and May dates of "The Million Dollar Piano" at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, as well as performance on May 6 in Bakersfield, Calif. The singer said in a statement that he became "violently ill" on a flight to the United Kingdom from Chile and "underwent immediate treatment" at a hospital, where he was released on Saturday.
O'Reilly breaks his silence
"I am sad that I am not on television anymore." With those words, Bill O'Reilly broke his silence on Monday evening, addressing listeners for the first time since he was ousted from Fox News amid revelations that he and the network paid millions of dollars to settle allegations of sexual harassment against him by multiple women. In a 19-minute recorded podcast on his personal website, O'Reilly said he "was very surprised how it all turned out." He said that he would record a current-events podcast on his subscription-based website, airing four nights a week.
Cancer: "Happy Days" star Erin Moran likely died from cancer at her southern Indiana home. A statement released Monday by the Harrison County Sheriff's Department says an autopsy revealed the 56-year-old actress had stage-four cancer. Moran died Saturday in the rural town of New Salisbury, about 20 miles northwest of Louisville, Ky. Officials say standard toxicology test results are pending but that no illegal narcotics were found at the home. Moran played Joanie Cunningham on "Happy Days."
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