Dance at nJPac Dazzles with Beauty and Boldness - ArtsFreePress
Dance at nJPac Dazzles with Beauty and Boldness - ArtsFreePress
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About the Program<br />
Now in its 20 th season, Holiday Express<br />
is a traveling Christmas party—a fromthe-heart<br />
troupe of musicians bringing<br />
music, friendship, help <strong>and</strong> hope to<br />
those too often left out in the cold <strong>at</strong><br />
the most special time of the year.<br />
You may have seen them on TV <strong>at</strong><br />
the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting,<br />
<strong>and</strong> now the acclaimed philanthropic<br />
group, Holiday Express, brings its<br />
“Ultim<strong>at</strong>e Holiday Show” to New Jersey<br />
Performing Arts Center.<br />
Fe<strong>at</strong>uring 50 professional musicians <strong>and</strong><br />
singers on stage, Holiday Express blends<br />
its unique mixture of traditional, gospel<br />
<strong>and</strong> rock ’n soul holiday music in a<br />
spectacular performance th<strong>at</strong> will touch<br />
you <strong>with</strong> the spirit of the season.<br />
Playing far from the limelight, in<br />
sometimes desper<strong>at</strong>e circumstances, <strong>and</strong><br />
all for absolutely no pay, more than 90<br />
of the best musicians on the Jersey Shore<br />
play 60 shows from mid-November<br />
through Christmas Eve, <strong>and</strong> <strong>with</strong> several<br />
dozen support staff in tow, deliver not<br />
only music, but, clothing, food <strong>and</strong><br />
fun to adults <strong>and</strong> children in need,<br />
the mentally <strong>and</strong> physically disabled,<br />
disadvantaged families, the isol<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
elderly, children <strong>with</strong> serious illness <strong>and</strong><br />
the desper<strong>at</strong>ely homeless.<br />
Holiday Express<br />
968 Shrewsbury Avenue<br />
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724<br />
Phone: 732.544.8010 –<br />
www.HolidayExpress.org<br />
XVI New Jersey Performing Arts Center December 2013