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Let’s go crazy for Aer Lingus’s return to Twin Cities

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That year they partied like it was 2-0–1-9 but after a Covid hiatus let’s go crazy for Aer Lingus’s return to the Twin Cities again.

Prince’s home cities of Minneapolis and St Paul’s is laying out the purple carpet to its Irish and Hibernophile pals.

You know, those like us who fly through Ireland with pre-clearance to the States.

All across America

Sky high: The Twin Cities

 

Ireland’s national airline carrier is resuming its service between Dublin and Minneapolis-St. Paul today, April 29, with four weekly round trip.

Which marks the full restoration of the airline’s pre-pandemic North American network of 18.

When the Dublin-Denver flights, which will also operate four times a week, come on tap from May 17.

I will endeavour to fit in a trip again to LAX, on Friday for the American Travel Fair, IPW.

Music is the flute of life

Tune in: With Lizzo

 

Now, of course, we know Minnesota for its links to the Purple One.

And you can lap it all up at Prince’s palatial Paisley Park.

But it has also been home to among others…

The Andrews Sisters, Judy Garland, Bob Dylan and Lizzo and her magic flute.

Of course, it will not have gone unnoticed on Irish visitors that the Twin Cities are a shopping hub.

With the Mall of America bringing shoppers from all around the world.

Deal us in

Hair-raising: Prince

And so if you want to see why Minneapolis-St Paul is where the doves fly.

You can too with Ireland’s national airline carrier.

So let’s go crazy for Aer Lingus’s return to Twin Cities.

Dublin to Minneapolis from €209.97.

 

 

 

 

 

America, Countries, Music

Let’s go crazy, Prince would

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Let’s go crazy, Prince would even at the pensionable (imagine) age of 65 this year. Because his hometown Minneapolis is holding a star-studded inaugural festival this year, the TC Summer Fest.

Star-studded we say. Well, only the biggest band in the world are playing, Vegas‘s own The Killers.

Prince did more than anybody to put the twin cities of Minneapolis and St Paul’s on the musical map.

And we’ll expect The Killers who headline the Friday of the July 14 and 15 weekend event at the Twins‘ Target baseball park to play some Prince.

As they are wont to do when they visit a city, take on that city’s biggest band.

And it really is incumbent on every artist to mark perhaps the most versatile and talented musician of our time.

Purple Highway

As Natasha Bedingfield did for us in Anaheim on the anniversary of Prince Rogers Nelson’s untimely passing.

Minneapolis are rightly proud of their favourite son and are always finding novel ways to commemorate The Artist.

And we think he would approve of the bill  to rename a stretch of Highway 5 in Chanhassen, adjacent to Paisley Park after him.

With the Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway to boast purple highway signs.

Paisley Park and more

Twin it to win it: Minneapolis and St Paul’s

Now the ultimate for Prince fans is to visit the Mecca of Minneapolis, Paisley Park itself.

Where there is a range of purplastic tours for devotees of the Little Magician, the Ultimate Experience, the VIP Experience and the Paisley Experience.

Minneapolis truly has become a Minneapopis on the back of Prince.

And they get July off to a cracking start with their Taste of Minnesota bash in the first weekend.

There will be live music, f1rst wrestling, art market, food vendors and more in downtown Minneapolis on Nicollet Mall from noon to 8pm.

Headliners Third Eye Blind play the music stage July 2 and Big Boi headlines July 3. Tickets are free.

So let’s go crazy, Prince would… for Minneapolis and St Paul’s.