Red Star Express plays a Gospel/Bluegrass concert for a packed house at the Plymouth Arts Center - Nov. 2009

Red Star Express plays
"Nail that Catfish to a Tree"

About the band
Beginning in 1993, members of the earliest roots of the band began to take shape, as a few musicians began an informal weekly jam session in Gerry Jost's barn in rural Newton. Today, the band has taken its circle of music on the road performing for Gospel church concerts, local historical events, picnics, parties, barn dances, cultural fairs and stage concerts.

Musical arrangements feature harmony singing along with standard bluegrass instruments----guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, upright bass, dobro and blues harp.

Red Star Express features solid harmonies and splendid instrumentals from its gifted core of players. The band recorded its third CD showing a shift to Gospel Bluegrass in 2009. Since, we have been enjoying the opportunity to play Gospel concerts for church organizations throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest. We have enjoyed helping many groups host fundraising events via a fun night of Gospel bluegrass in their own church sanctuaries.

The music and the message are both worth your evening. Come out and see.....we hope you agree.

Where does the name come from?
Good question. Many of the band members have asked the same thing.
Legend has it that the barnside rec room which serves as our practice arena holds a model truck from the old trucking line known as the Red Star Express. Since the band expended its creativity in other directions, they thought changing their name from the Shameless Ucker Point Creek Band was a good idea. Somehow, and we aren't quite sure whom to blame, but someone got the notion of naming the band after the model truck.

We have been called many names -- including Red Ball Express, the Red Star Jets and a few we can't mention here. Why it stuck, we'll never know. You can call us by our given name. Just don't call us late for the cocktail hour.

So, roll on, buddy!

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