August 2002

What’s Up This Month on the New Jersey Coast

Volume 3, Number 8, page 1

  Just a quick reminder that close to twelve hundred local songwriters, performers, promoters, venue owners, sound and light professionals, bar keeps, and open mic hosts... (should I mention the guy that sweeps the floor after the shows over?) Will be gathering at the Trade Winds on Wednesday August 28th to honor the best of their kind at The 10th Annual Asbury Music Awards

Asbury Music Awards
File Photo from 2001 awards show

  Starting in 1993 as The Golden T-Bird awards, and renamed in 1995 to The Asbury Music Awards, the ceremony gives recognition back to the people who work so hard throughout the year to ensure that original music can always be heard
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KASIM SULTON BRINGS A SENSE OF
ROCK N ROLL HISTORY TO THE COAST

  He's been in the biz for 25 years. He's been on MTV back in the days when they actually showed videos. He's Kasim Sulton who can probably tell you some juicy parables about some of the biggest names in rock. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Staten Island, Sulton is best known as the bass player and vocalist in Todd Rundgren's art-pop band Utopia, recording nine albums from 1977 through 1986. He also shared lead vocals with Rundgren and managed to pen the group's only Top 30 single in 1979, "Set Me Free."
  The association with Rundgren also led Sulton in another direction: playing on one of the best selling albums of all time,
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  I'd heard about The Asbury Cafe most of the summer. A smoke free comfortable room where patrons were expected to

Jason Shane
Asbury Cafe July 2002

keep (somewhat) quiet, dedicated to acoustic music.
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