The Nostalgics

The members of The Nostalgics hail from a variety of musical backgrounds, performing with award winning artists.

Michael Slatton began his career singing in church at the age of 8. His rich baritone voice resonates in any room. His talent is unfathomable as he sings country songs or croons to a Nat King Cole favorite. He has performed with such groups as The Agents of Soul, The Creations and The Shepherd Specials Gospel Group. From 1997 to the present he competes each year in the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival, and won over 100 Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals. He has been invited each year (for 10 years) to perform at the the National Festival all over the nation. While serving in the military, he spent 7 years singing with the U.S. Army Infantry Chorus and performed for 2 sitting Presidents. He served his country proudly for 33 years retiring with a rank of Sergeant Major.

Thaddies Holloway is an American Baritone and Tenor. He began his career at the age of 7 in his Mother's choir, the Holloway Community Singers, He has performed with many famous gospel singers, including Mahalia Jackson. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, special forces. In subsequent years he sang,recorded, and traveled with his world-renowned Grammy nominated sister, Loleatta Holloway. After his tour he evolved into a solo artist working on a vast number of projects, winning multiple awards for his talents, He spends much of his time volunteering to many hospitals, nursing homes, and veterans facilities.

The Nostalgics recently performed at the American Legion's Women's Auxiliary States Dinner and gave yet another gold medal performance in front of an audience of 10,000. Included in this press kit are two videos from that performance.

To view additional videos, please access our Facebook page at this link http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Nostalgics/210537005715779

May 20, 2012

To Whom it may concern:
It is my distinct honor and pleasure to recommend to you the great talent of two very special gentlemen, Mr. Michael Slatton and Mr. Thad Holloway. I have known these two very honorable men for several years and cannot say enough, not only about their talented voices, but their integrity, honesty and faith which is incomparable in this world we live in today.
I would like to introduce myself and tell you a little about how I came to know these two gentlemen. I am a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, the world’s largest women’s patriotic service organization. Our organization is over 850,000 members strong and it is our mission to honor the sacrifice of those who have served our country in the military and their families. One of the major programs in our organization is to support our veterans through our VA Medical Center programs and activities. One of these programs is the Veterans Creative Arts Festival that annually brings together the greatest of talented artists in the fields of performing arts among our veterans. Michael and Thad have consistently, over the years, been selected as two of the best of these talented men and women. This past year, 2010-2011, I served as the National President of our organization, the American Legion Auxiliary, and I chose Michael and Thad to be the performing artists at my National Convention’s States Dinner. Normally the entertainment for this very special dinner, where thousands of our members are in attendance, is musical artist(s) well known to the public. However, knowing the talent of these two gentlemen I knew our members would be thrilled to have the opportunity to hear their awesome voices and see in person their stage presence and great talent. I cannot tell you how extremely well received their entire show was and I still get comments from our members about it.
I highly recommend Mike Slatton and Thad Holloway to anyone who will take the opportunity to see and hear them.

Best regards,

Carlene Ashworth
Past National President 2010-2011
American Legion