THE PURPLE XPERIENCE Comes to the State Theatre, 10/7

Nearly eighteen months after his death, the music of Prince lives on through The Purple Xperience, a five-piece tribute band that has been touring the country since 2011, bringing the memories of Prince and The Revolution to audiences of all generations. Hailing from Prince's hometown of Minneapolis, The Purple Xperience comes to the State Theatre on Saturday, October 7.

Show time is 8:00 PM. Tickets are $35/$29 and can be purchased by visiting the State Theatre Box Office, 453 Northampton Street, Easton, by calling 1-800-999-STATE, 610.252.3132 or online at www.statetheatre.org. Sponsored by 100.7 WLEV and lehighvalleylive.com + The Express-Times.

The Purple Xperience embodies the spirit and sounds of Prince, with front-man Marshall Charloff channeling the vocals and movements from the icon himself. Charloff imaginatively styles the magic of Prince's talent in an uncannily unmatched fashion with his appearance, vocal imitation, and multi-instrumental capacity on guitar and piano. The Purple Xperience brings you the greatest most authentic Prince tribute show in the world leaving no one disappointed.

Marshall Charloff taught himself to play the guitar at the age of 15 and later taught himself the piano, bass, and drums. He is a celebrated producer and recording artist, skills that paved the way for Marshmallow Fields, a 1990s production team consisting of Marshall, Grammy winner John Fields (The Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and Switchfoot), and Steven "Funkytown" Greenberg. Their single charted on the Billboard Top 100 dance charts and is still in rotation amongst DJs around the country. Although Charloff and Fields shared co-production credits, the release was executive produced by Steven Greenberg. Marshmallow Fields's credits include productions for Grammy Award winners The Commodores, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Little Anthony and the Imperials, and multi-platinum selling Lipps Inc. just to name a few. Marshall also wrote the song "Don't Rock It", which is on the Commodores XX album released in 1993 and for which he also appears as a producer and arranger.

His latest two recordings are on the album "94 East" featuring Prince, on which Marshall appears on keyboards and bass guitar, and, in 2009, on his self-produced single "Cougars", which has had notable success on iTunes and was on the soundtrack of feature film "Thieves Like Us".

On the national platform, he has played rooms all over the U.S including Las Vegas and L.A. Most recently, Marshall performed for seven years as one of the country's most sought after dueling piano players as one-half of The Funkeys, in which he garnered a strong following as one of the nation's best Prince impersonators as well as for his ability to wow audiences and leave them wanting more.

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