06.30 - Tonight Kasim Sulton plays another concert at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, NY. This is Kasim's 7th and final concert at this venue in this sell-out week.
Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City, United States. It is also the name of the entity which owns the arena and several of the professional sports franchises which play there. There have been four incarnations of the arena. The first two were located at the Northeast corner of Madison Square (Madison Avenue and 26th Street) from which the arena derived its name. Subsequently a new 17,000-seat Garden (opened December 15, 1925) was built at 50th Street and 8th Avenue, and the current Garden (opened February 14, 1968) is at 7th Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station. The present arena is informally known to some by the advertising slogan "The World's Most Famous Arena".
Tickets for The Kasim Sulton Band's 7th concert there tonight sold out within an hour of going on sale a year ago! Some tickets have been sold on E-Bay.com for up to $7,500!
The concert starts at 8.00pm and the opening act is Meat Loaf playing a short 3 song acoustic set.
Doug Kennedy has confirmed that he will be playing the concert tonight with Kasim (there was some doubt as he was hoping someone would have arranged a surprise birthday party so Richie Sambora was standing by to take his place). Phil Collins will again be playing drums and Barry Mannilow will be on keyboards. Kasim's backup singers will be Cher, Todd Rundgren and Keith Urban.