Holiday Express

   Calling children of all ages to come experience the magic of the Christmas season. For 10 years and counting the legions of volunteers known collectively as Holiday express has been multiplying. Although Holiday Express is best known for it's musical performances, the experience is more than just the Christmas music.

Frosty the Snowman with Holiday Express - Tradewinds 2003

   At a Holiday Express show, one will see smiles on the faces of those young and old as they take a moment to get their photo taken with Santa Claus while they let the jolly old man know the contents of their secret wish list. Next, one might move on to get their face painted to their own specifications by another of the crew of Holiday Express volunteers. Then one might decide to join in the fun with some other volunteers at a craft table and make some holiday magic of their own in the form of a Christmas ornament or decoration. At some point, the entire crowd is eventually lured to the stagefront by the angelic voices delivering an assortment of your favorite holiday tunes.
   By this time into the experience, the Christmas sounds of Holiday Express are audible in the background. During the show, you never know who might come out on stage and join the countless list of musical volunteers. In 2002, the Holiday Express crowd was joined on stage by the likes of Santa Claus, The Grinch, Frosty the Snowman and Southside Johnny.
   Although several of the 51 shows scheduled for the 2002 holiday season are open to the public, the main purpose of the holiday express organization is to spread holiday cheer to groups who need it more than others at this time of year by delivering music, toys, clothing, food and fun to children with cancer, people living with AIDS, the mentally ill, disadvantaged families, the isolated elderly and the desperate homeless. For more information on how you can get involved, check out http://www.holidayexpress.org
  by Una McGurk

Kasim Sulton

  It would seem as though songwriter/producer/bass player/keyboardist/vocalist Kasim Sulton couldn’t possibly do anything new in the music business. And in a sense,that would be accurate.
  Kasim’s latest venture is a solo CD, Quid Pro Quo, out now in stores. While he released a self-titled debut album in the early 80s, since then he has made a career of working with musicians. He is perhaps best known for his work with Meat Loaf, Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Joan Jett, Hall & Oats, Patti Smith….the list goes on (and on, and on). He has done everything from playing bass and keyboards to producing entire

Kasim Sulton
Hamilton Street Stage - Aug 2002

albums-for other artists. He only began playing his own music again last year after an almost 20-year hiatus.
  I heard Sulton play for the first time last month at the Hamilton
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