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The Toronto Blues Society’s annual Women’s Blues Revue has wowed Canadian audiences with performances from some of the most accomplished women in Canadian blues. Since its inception in 1987, it has grown from a local event to a national showcase of many of Canada’s greatest blues musicians. Held annually at Toronto’s historic Massey Hall, the Women’s Blues Revue is a not-to-be-missed show. The event has helped launch the careers of Serena Ryder, Amanda Marshall, Don...

Throughout his career, Prince surrounded himself with other musicians that he supported, mentored, and studied. Early on, he was writing so much music that he recruited or assembled other acts to play his songs—The Time, Sheila E., Vanity 6. The “Minneapolis scene” of the ‘80s, his engineer Susan Rogers once said, was really “one guy who created his own competition in order to be a scene.” But after his superstardom was secured, Prince continued to reach out to young musicians and ...

    It wasn’t any weird thangs happening when I was at Paisley with Prince… we just played music till Prince said lunch/dinner break or see ya tomorrow.. haha! Sometimes Prince would invite us to hang with him to see some live music. I remember hanging with Prince and the band to check out Fred Wesley and Jabo Starks at Dakota Jazz Club and we also saw KING perform at the Ice House in Minneapolis. In late 2015 to early 2016, I started playing bass with Prince’s new band with Donna Gran...

Rolling Stone Menu A Final Visit With Prince: Rolling Stone’s Lost Cover Story Scenes from an intimate 2014 interview at Paisley Park By Patrick Kovarik/Getty It is, in theory, a mundane sight, nothing 2 get excited about: just a 55-year-old man in his suburban Minneapolis workplace, scrolling through a Windows Media Player library on a clunky Dell computer. An equally ordinary multi-line phone sits beside it, near a lit candle, bottled water and some expensive-looking lotio...