This venue is located at 425 North Bumby Avenue Orlando, Florida 32803 and tickets (at $39.50 + $3 charges) can be purchased from this link. Earlier today there was a pair of seats available in the 9th row.

This theater originally opened in 1963 and is now a theatre for the performing arts, although it first started as the first twin (two-screen) cinema in Orlando. It has had a varied history as it was bought by the Odeon Corporation in 1985 and then by a Christian family in 1992 for Christian-themed shows until 1996.

As far as I can discover this appears to be Kasim Sulton's first appearance at this venue although he has played in Orlando numerous times. The last time Kasim played a gig in Orlando was on Monday 14th April last year when he played at Hard Rock Live (also with Todd Rundgren.

Apparently Fernando Perdomo is a big Utopia fan - he describes playing on stage with Kasim as "a once in a lifetime experience"!

Below are two photos from the gig last night:

Many thanks to Sherrie Williams for both these photos.

The songs that Kasim played in his set were:
Sacrifice
Set Me Free
Cliché
There Goes My Inspiration
This Must Be Love
I Don't Mind At All
Somebody Loves You
Libertine (with a full band!)
Are You Happy Now (with a full band!)

It appears that anyone who is at the festival tonight in Cleveland Street will be able to see the gig but will be behind the 400 people who have bought a ticket for the gig.

From CreativeLoafing.com:

The street is closed for a street festival, so traffic won’t be an issue. Probably the best suggestion is to contact the place where you purchased your tickets.

(Maybe there's trouble with the ghosts at the venue?!!!)

Many thanks to Sherrie Williams for this info.

The Capital Theater is located at 405 Cleveland Street, Clearwater, Florida, 33755 and the gig tonight starts at 8.00pm. Click here to purchase tickets at $49.75. (Although tickets are purchased through the Ruth Eckerd Hall website the gig is being held at The Capital Theater in downtown Clearwater.)

The reason that this gig is so historic is that this is the first gig at this venue since it returned to its original name of the Capital Theatre! An article on TampaBay.com yesterday (now removed but reproduced below) reported this. Apparently almost $100K has been spent already on getting the theater ready for the gig tonight! Apparently this venue is known for having some of the best natural acoustics in Florida. The venue can seat between 434 and 520 people and interestingly, the theater's seats (which come in six different sizes) are the same seats that were originally installed when the theater opened in 1924.

This venue also has a reputation for being haunted with no less than three different spirits reported being seen on various occasions! This article explores these sightings.

Many thanks to the people who sent the info about this venue.

It appears that they changed the start of the set list slightly and apparently Kasim sang lead vocals in the rehearsal until Todd arrived!

However Lynn posted on Tuesday that all the band were in Florida and "my guess is they will be doing a bit of rehearsal to warm up for tomorrow night. Everything leans toward this being a really smooth and super fun tour. While they are out there we are in the office planing what will come next"

Details about last night's gig will be posted as they appear online.

Tobacco Road is listed as "Miami's oldest restaurant" as it opened in 1912. The address of the venue is 626 South Miami Avenue, Miami, 33130.

This venue has had quite a colorful history as during the 19’20s it was a speakeasy and gambling hall for bookmakers and racketeers and during Prohibition became a secret hideaway where bootleggers stored and sold their booze. (Apparently Al Capone was said to be one of its regular patrons!) In the 1940s it was a gay bar where some of the country's top female impersonators were said to have performed and after operating as a regular bar during the 1950s and 1960s, it was transformed into a strip joint in the 1970s. Until 1990 Tobacco Road was one of only a few bars open on the south side of the Miami River.

Other acts on the bill tonight are Dreaming In Stereo, Mongo, Ex Norwegian and Robert Goodman Band. It appears that Kasim is the headline act and is described as "Pop Music Legend Kasim Sulton of Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Meat Loaf, The New Cars and many other notable projects"!

Apparently the whole event lasts from 9.00pm until 2.00am and costs only $5 (21s and over only). There is no link to purchase tickets but they will be available on the door. It is not known yet what time Kasim will take the stage.

Revolution is located at 200 W Broward Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33312. Apparently this venue has two stages with over 27,000 square feet of space. The indoor venue holds 1,100 fans and the outdoor area 2,000. According to the website, beside the usual prohibited items like drugs and weapons, they also do not allow stickers or pencils into the venue!

The gig starts at 7.30pm and tickets can be purchased from this link. This is a General Admission gig and the basic ticket is $19 but TicketMaster then add on $1 Building Facility Charge and $8.10 Convenience Charge which means the total price is $28.10 to collect tickets from Will Call but if you want to use your own paper and ink to print your ticket they add an additional $2.50 to the total!

The opening act tonight is Dreaming In Stereo who will also be playing on the bill at Kasim Sulton's solo gig tomorrow evening in Miami.

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The set list, a review and photos of the two gigs in New York City that Kasim Sulton played as part of the Todd Rundgren 2008 Arena Tour last December have been added to the Todd Rundgren 2008 Arena Toursection of KasimInfo.com or click here for the direct link.

Many thanks to RMAC for the set list, review and photos on that page.

All three gigs this week are in Florida with the first gig of the tour in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday. Two days later the second gig is in Clearwater and on Sunday they play in Orlando.

However on Thursday Kasim Sulton will be fitting in one of his own solo gigs at Tobacco Road in Miami, Florida!