Marcus Scott, of the
Beautiful Nights Facebook page and fan parties, will bring some
Chicago flavor to the San Francisco Bay Area this New Year's Eve.
Purple Funk SF, a group
dedicated to celebrating Prince's music, will present an end-of-the-year bash, "1999 New Year's Eve Dance Party" at 9 p.m.
Dec. 31 at Rassela's Jazz Club, 1534 Fillmore St., San Francisco. The cost is $19.99 and the night's
theme will be 1999, in honor of Prince's 1982 breakthrough album. The event will be hosted by DJ Miguel "Hightop" Fonseca.
Special
guests include Scott, who is traveling from the Midwest and Jeff Harris, a local DJ best
known for his work with the Prince vs. Michael Jackson parties. The
party will feature mainstream, as well as unreleased, songs, music
videos and a special performance by Scott. Christophur T will oversee art direction and Evol Knight will be the event photographer.
“It will be a
beautiful purple funky night,” said Christophur T, of Purple Funk
SF.
Courtesy of Willie Adams, aka DJ Spooky Electric |
Adams then tapped Christophur T to come on board, since the two had collaborated in the past
to throw Prince parties in the Bay Area, the last one being held in
2008. The Purple Funk SF group held their first party in
June 2012, which featured a live Prince tribute by The Scoundrels.
“There (are) a lot of
Prince groups all over the world,” Adams said. “But, we wanted to
distinguish ourselves and represent the Bay (Area) and give it that
Bay (Area) flavor.”
Adams and Christophur T
both met Scott when he traveled to California in June 2008 to attend
one of their parties in Berkeley. Christophur T said that he had
mistaken Scott for another well-known Prince fan Sir Jack based in Santa Cruz, Calif. and greeted
him as such before realizing his mistake. However, the two connected
that night and have periodically kept in touch, via Facebook and by telephone.
Courtesy of Christophur T |
When Scott started
Beautiful Nights, he reached out to members of Purple Funk SF and
they in turn, invited him to collaborate with them on their New
Year's Eve party. They have been in talks since the Beautiful Nights
team was planning their first party, which took place in November
2012, and featured Maya and Nandy McClean, better known as The Twinz,
who have worked extensively with Prince, Adams said.
“It just made sense
for us to come out to support each other,” he said. “It was
really just out of a spirit of collaboration and appreciation for the
music and the culture.”
Scott said he is looking
forward to visiting the Bay Area again for the first time in more
than three years, performing at the party and meeting new people. He
said he hopes this party will bring the focus back to Prince's music
and uniting fans from all walks of life.
“We need to set an
example for the new generation of Prince fans,” Scott said. “If
everybody just supports each other, we could have the ultimate Prince
party.”
Adams said he wanted
fans to know that this will be a one-of-a-kind event and anybody into the “purple culture,” will not want to miss it.
“Get ready a for a night
that you will never, never forget,” he said. “If you're a
Prince fan, this is the place you want to be.”
Stay beautiful, Kristi
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Lead photo courtesy of Purple Funk SF.
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Thanks for sharing about the dance party. Went for birthday party of my neighbor's son last month. Their taste of hiring one of the superb Los Angeles venues was out of the world. DIY décor and invites were done with green theme color. All kids were given lovely attractive return gifts. Thinking for same venue booking for my brother's success party too.
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