Prince & Nile Rodgers Cover David Bowie

Prince blessed Essence Festival this weekend. Besides treating the audience with a 24-song headlining set, the music icon made a surprise appearance during Nile Rodgers’ set, linking with the Chic leader with his guitar for a cover of David Bowie’s 1983 single “Let’s Dance,” which was co-produced by Rodgers. Watch some fan-captured footage above.

Setlist:
Let’s Go Crazy
Take Me With U
Raspberry Beret
U Got the Look
Cool
When Doves
Sign O’ The Times
Hot Thing
Controversy
1999
Little Red Corvette
Nothing Compares 2 U
Kiss
Funknroll
Act of God
What Have You Done for Me Lately
(Theme Song From) Which Way Is Up?
Partyman
Sometimes It Snows in April
The Bird
Jungle Love
The Glamorous Life
Purple Rain
Days of Wild