Back on April 21st, 2019, Portland, Oregon’s Soul’d Out Music Festival had the good fortune of hosting Prince for a pair of shows at the Roseland Theater. Just three years later, to the day, Prince passed away. This year on April 21st, Soul’d Out Music Festival and funk/soul juggernaut Ghost-Note played homage to The Purple One at Portland’s Star Theater.
Led by Snarky Puppy’s multi-Grammy-winning percussion duo of Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth, Ghost-Note delivers hard-driving funk and soul with the assistance of a constantly rotating cast of musicians. MonoNeon, who was a member of Prince’s touring band, was playing bass and guitar. Also on stage were members of the New Power Generation Horns. Sarah Clarke, who sings in Portland-based band Dirty Revival came out for a couple of songs, and Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer B.Slade was on hand to sing a few songs, showing off his vocal chops, going especially big on the set-closing “Purple Rain.”
