Prince's Paisley Park Legacy Still Shapes Chanhassen

Ten years after Prince’s death, Chanhassen still lives with his presence through Paisley Park, the studio complex that now anchors tours, concerts and June tribute events. (mndaily.com) Prince was found at Paisley Park in Chanhassen on April 21, 2016, and the Minnesota Daily’s April 20 podcast said local writers and scholars are still tracing how his life and death shaped Minneapolis music culture. (mndaily.com) That legacy now has a fixed address. Paisley Park describes itself as an active museum, recording studio and event venue in Chanhassen, and Explore Minnesota says it sits about 20 minutes from downtown Minneapolis. (paisleypark.com, exploreminnesota.com) The site is also the center of this year’s biggest public remembrance. Paisley Park’s official 2026 celebration runs June 3 through June 7, with programming in Chanhassen and downtown Minneapolis. (paisleypark.com, paisleypark.com) Organizers and city leaders announced a free, all-ages block party and community sing-along for Saturday, June 6, in downtown Minneapolis. MPR News reported a 100-vocalist choir led by Sanford Moore and an expected crowd of up to 15,000 people. (mprnews.org, paisleypark.com) The paid festival around it is larger and more formal. Paisley Park lists general admission at $900 and VIP at $1,400, with concerts, panels, screenings, a guided Paisley Park tour and a “The Next 10 Years” panel about the vault and future plans. (paisleypark.com) That split captures how Prince is being remembered in 2026: as a neighborhood memory in Minneapolis and as an international destination in Chanhassen. The official lineup includes former members of the New Power Generation and the Revolution, plus Chaka Khan, Morris Day, Miguel, Tevin Campbell, Bilal and Sounds of Blackness. (paisleypark.com) Paisley Park itself changed quickly after Prince died. The estate announced public tours in August 2016, and the complex opened to visitors that October, turning his private home and production space into a permanent public stop in the southwest suburbs. (usatoday.com, usatoday.com) The Minnesota Daily’s reporting also points to a less tidy legacy. In its April coverage, Dakota Jazz Club founder Lowell Pickett and University of Minnesota professor Arun Saldanha described Prince as both a local regular and a global figure whose reach many Minnesotans underestimated. (mndaily.com) So the story in Chanhassen is not only about a museum or a memorial date. It is about a working place Prince built, a city still singing his songs on June 6, and a suburb where his studio remains one of the Twin Cities’ busiest sites of remembrance. (paisleypark.com, mprnews.org)