Michael Bolton brought the Christmas edition of The Symphony Sessions to Windsor on Thursday night to the delight of a sold-out Caesars Windsor Colosseum. The show packed in about a dozen Bolton classics and a few seasonal favourites.
The 65-year-old crooner put on what felt like a televised Christmas special like the ones Elvis and Johnny Cash used to do every year. The show was packed with great music, even great musicians and a grand sense of humour. He playfully batted away proposals of marriage with cute responses like "Have we met?" to an adoring audience dominated by middle-aged women.
The show picked up speed as it progressed and the hits just kept flowing, ever slightly mixed with a couple Christmas songs (all of them from 1993’s This Is the Time: The Christmas Album). It was a good selection of hits from his 20-plus studio albums and the atmosphere was very laid back. He appeared to enjoy just being there with 5,000 of his closest Windsor friends and a small string section composed of local musicians.
The show was packed with great music, ever great musicians and a grand sense of humour.
Standouts of the night included a series of duets with New York singer Sam Fly. If she looked familiar, that’s because she starred in an E! Network TV docu-series, *The Platinum Life*. Fly’s voice was keyed in perfectly with Bolton’s and the duets sounded phenomenal. Another key moment was a musical interlude where we heard a sax and piano solo.
Windsor fans were treated to an extra Christmas song that he hasn’t performed elsewhere on the tour so far – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. He also revealed his plans to release a documentary on the music of Detroit, which he's expecting to release in the future.
While his long golden locks might be a bit shorter now, his voice was still as majestic as we remember.
