To fulfill this ambition to make a ‘Purple Weekend’ all employees, VIP lounges, various art installations will decorated with purple to create one large purple event at the festival site. Prince encourages his fans directly to join in and show up in purple clothing!

The purple dressed audience even has a chance to win a collection of strong prizes: The grand prize is one week free leasing of a MINI sponsored by Terminalen, Copenhagen. Also gift vouchers from Billetlugen and Scandic Hotel.

To participate in the competition, take a picture of yourself wearing purple clothes at the festival square. Then, upload the image to ICO Concerts’ facebook page. The winners of the most inventive costumes will be drawn out on Tuesday 12th of August.

On Sunday Frisko offers ‘purple’ refreshing ‘blueberry ice cream’ for free and helps to emphasize the theme. The ice cream will be handed out to all guests who arrive in purple clothing or other inventive coatings in purple at the entrance.

Paloma Faith presents the debut album with her elegant and sensual voice in beautiful harmony with her ​​musical inspiration within the soul and jazz music genre. Her unique talent and distinctive radiance gave her in 2011 a nomination as ‘Best female solo artist’ to the Brit Awards. Now the Danish audience see her for the first time at this unique festival in company with Saturday’s other stars.

Maceo Parker has besides a steady solo career earlier been an integral part of James Brown’s band back from 1964. In the two following decades he was the band’s solid saxophonist. Alongside involvement in Brown’s band, he was also in the 70s part of “Parliament-Funkadelic.” About twenty years later, he played with Prince as a part of ‘The New Power Generation’.

Besides many ​​solo releases has Maceo Parker also many other notable credits in his career such as his collaboration with Bryan Ferry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, De La Soul and many more. Latest solo album from Maceo Parker’s hand was back in 2007 with the album ‘Roots & Grooves’, which was a tribute to his inspiration and idol Ray Charles.

In 1978, Khan went solo and got the same year a hit with the song ‘I’m Every Woman’. Her international breakthrough was realized a few years later with the album and the song ‘I Feel For You’, with contributions from Stevie Wonder and Prince. Her back catalog includes classics as duet with Ray Charles in “I’ll Be Good To You ‘,’ What Cha ‘Gonna Do for Me’ and her two times Grammy-winning album ‘Funk This’.

The American R & B singer-songwriter Nikka Costa guests for the first time Danish ground when she performs at the NPG. Nikka Costa manages in the best way to combine elements of funk, soul and blues at the same time. Talent has come not from strangers. She is the daughter of famed producer Don Costa and goddaughter of her father’s long-standing client, Frank Sinatra. Throughout her career she has been working with Lenny Kravitz and supported headliner Prince.

Ticket sales for August 7th starts on Monday at 10.00pm (www.billetlugen.dk).

Regular Ticket: 250 (usually 550)
The Purple VIP Ticket: 575 (usually 875)
The Purple VIP Ticket + Inner Circle: 975 (usually 1255)
The Purple Lounge VIP Experience: 975, – (usually 1275)
Have you purchased a ticket in Fona to Saturday, you can purchase tickets to Sunday at a reduced price at this link:

http://burl.dk/npgsondag

Ticket prices for Sunday only looks like this:
Regular Ticket: 550, -
The Purple VIP Ticket: 875, -
The Purple Lounge VIP Experience: 1275, -

NPG Festival
10-Øren
6th August (FEW TICKETS)
7th August (EXTRA DAY)
TICKET SALES 7th August STARTS: Monday 11 pm. 10
TICKET SALES 6th August HAS STARTED

Raphael Saadiq amazed the audience of Vega with world class R&B, when he visited Denmark in May. Through his career he has impressed his spectators time after time with superior talent and heartfelt soul. This summer he returns to Denmark to join Prince at the NPG Festival 6th of August at 10-oeren.

With musical references to historic names like James Brown and Otis Redding, Raphael Saadiq has elegantly brought the soul and R&B into the 21st century, rapping it in tight beats and funky vocals.

As a singer-songwriter he is famous for his work with Lucy Pearl and Tony! Toni! Toné and songs like Don’t Mess With My Man. Producing for the greatest stars of soul and R&B (TLC, Mary J. Blige and Joss Stone to name a few), Raphael Saadiq has placed himself in the top of American music culture.
Danish reviewers and audiences have been exceedingly thrilled about Saadiq’s performances and rewarded
the singer with outstanding live reviews:

“With a brilliant playing band and a joy of music so obvious that it unavoidably captures the spectators, Raphael Saadiq maintains a steaming intensity throughout the entire concert”. ***** Politiken

Larry Graham is one of the world’s best and most recognized bassists. It is not entirely without reason that Larry Graham has been called the bass response to Jimi Hendrix with his incredible slap bass technique and special love for funk music. Larry Graham has from 1997 to 2000 been touring together with NPG headliner Prince.

The Inner Circle at the NPG Festival is an extra fenced area in front of the stage with room for 500 people. The Inner Circle is divided in two closed areas, each with room for 250 people.

The Inner Circle does not hold a backstage/VIP area, but has been offered as an add-on possibility to all guests who have bought an entrance ticket, regardless the category.

The Inner Circle area was created after the general ticket sales started, as an offer for the guests who had already bought an entrance ticket for the NPG Festival. Tickets to the Inner Circle area were not accessible from the beginning as:

1. The Inner Circle area was created based on demand from the many Danish Prince fans.
2. An Inner Circle had not yet been approved by Prince’s production team prior to tickets going on sale.

Inner Circle access was therefore never included in any of the ticket categories. The advantages and services included in the two VIP categories have been clearly communicated at billetlugen.dk and npgfestival.dk. Inner Circle has not been mentioned for either category.

Unfortunately quite a few purchasers did not receive the email with Inner Circle sales link from Billetlugen in time to react prior to the Inner Circle sale start on Monday 27th of June. Managing Director of Billetlugen, Jeppe M. Jensen, says:

“We at Billetlugen have made a mistake. The e-mail should have been sent out to all purchasers on Friday 24th of June and not Monday 27th of June. We’re sorry that not all purchasers received the e-mail in time and we take full responsibility“.

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Angående Inner Circle billetter til NPG Festival: Inner Circle området blev oprettet efter det almindelige billetsalg begyndte, som et tilbud til de gæster, der allerede havde købt entrebillet til festivalen. Årsagen til at Inner Circle ikke var muligt fra begyndelsen skyldes to væsentlige faktorer:(1) Inner Circle området blev oprettet som følge af den store efterspørgsel fra Prince’s mange danske fans. (2) Først skulle produktionsholdet bag Prince dog give tilladelse til at oprette en Inner Circle. Dermed har Inner Circle på intet tidspunkt været inkluderet i nogle VIP pakker fra starten, hvilket der hverken er givet udtryk for i pakkebeskrivelserne på billetlugen.dk eller npgfestival.dk.

Beklageligvis har flere ikke modtaget Billetlugens e-mail angående salget af Inner Circle tillægsbilletten, i tide til at reagere, da tillægssalget startede mandag 27. juni. Om dette udtaler administrerende direktør for Billetlugen, Jeppe M. Jensen:

”Vi har på Billetlugen begået en fejl. E-mailen skulle være sendt ud til alle billetkøbere fredag 24. juni, og ikke mandag 27. juni om formiddagen. Vi beklager, at folk ikke har modtaget e-mailen i tide og påtager os det fulde ansvar for dette.”