Prince died on April 21, 2016, in the cold quiet of a Minnesota morning, and the tributes that followed ranged from the cynical to the sincere. Gabriel Sanchez had been doing it long before any of that. Since 2002, when he first put on the long leather boots and stepped under the lights for a local Milwaukee theatre production of Purple Rain, Sanchez has been building what is now described as the longest-running tribute to Prince in the country. He brings The Prince Experience to San Antonio’s Aztec Theatre on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at 8:00 PM.
About The Prince Experience
Sanchez was born in San Juan, Texas — a fact worth noting when a show lands on his home-state soil — though he has worked out of Milwaukee for most of his adult career. What he has built over more than two decades isn’t a novelty act or a nostalgia package. Press and audiences both reach for words like “authentic” and “comprehensive”: the look is there, the footwork is there, and the guitar and piano solos mirror Prince’s technical vocabulary in ways that reviewers have found genuinely surprising. The band holds a 4.5-star rating on Ticketmaster across 169 reviews, and the 2026 touring schedule — Dallas on June 11, Houston on June 12, San Antonio on June 13, then UK and Canada dates later in the year — carries the confidence of an act that knows exactly what it’s doing on a stage. The Prince Experience is not endorsed by the Prince Estate, a fact the band states openly; Sanchez has described the show as a loving homage, which is the most accurate word for what it has become after more than two decades of sustained effort.
The Aztec Theatre
The Aztec Theatre turns 100 this year. It opened on June 4, 1926, designed by the firm Meyer and Holler as one of the great exotic-theme movie palaces of the economic boom decade — Mesoamerican columns, sculptures, murals, and authentic reproductions of artifacts that make the room one of the more visually striking performance spaces in Texas, a stage that has always asked the performer to match its ambition. It ran as a silent film house before showing its first talking picture in 1927, cycled through decades as a cinema, went through an incarnation as the Aztec Triplex in the 1970s, and closed in 1989. Following restoration in the late 1990s, it reopened as a live entertainment venue, with music programming beginning in 2009; Live Nation has operated it since 2015. The 1,477-capacity room sits at 104 N. St. Mary’s Street, steps from the San Antonio Riverwalk. More upcoming shows at the Aztec and across the region are listed on our San Antonio events page.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets start at $27. VIP Club Access and Fast Lane Access upgrades are also available. Note: This show was originally scheduled for January 25, 2026 and has been rescheduled to June 13, 2026; previously purchased tickets will be honored for the new date. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.