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Truly Smooth Sailing with Pieces of a Dream

For our final Smooth Cruise of the 2011 summer season, Pieces of a Dream took the stage on Wednesday night, played old favorites, new tunes, and really got the audience moving. The men from Philly, played to a very enthusiastic crowd with Facebook comments the following day noting, “…it was off the hook… The boat docked and they were still playing. Great show,” “classic side! Stanley T. [Turrentine] did it a very long time ago… Kudos!,” “These young brothers are doing it and carrying on the pieces of a dream…,” and "Pieces of a Dream was awesome last nite! Perfect…

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“Sista Rachelle Ferrell, got it all!”

We thought the first feedback we received late last night on Facebook regarding the Rachelle Ferrell Smooth Cruise would make the perfect headline for this piece. Rachelle certainly DID it all yesterday evening, blending her incredible 6 octave vocal range with a truly unique and witty repartee with the crowd. Playfully improvising musically with quips about her surroundings, the talented artist covered everything from the Spirit Cruise name to the hum of the engine to boats speeding past the ship’s windows, right on through to her well-known tunes — wrapping it all up beautifully in an entertaining evening. Fans at…

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Norman Brown & Richard Elliot Rock the Boat!

It was quite a Wednesday night out on New York Harbor as the Smooth Cruise rocked with two sold out shows featuring Norman Brown and Richard Elliot. After a beautiful summer evening on the water with a memorable show from these two top artists, fans disembarked describing the performances as “amazing,” “fantastic,” and “out of this world.” Today on Facebook, the raves and “likes” continued to come in…"It was an awesome show last night," said one fan, who also thanked us for the show. (Our pleasure!) Another proclaimed, "Awesome show last night!!!!!!! These two rocked the ship. The ship docked…

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Kirk Whalum and Jeff Golub Take the Smooth Cruise to Memphis & Back!

The Smooth Cruise may have been out on New York Harbor last night but happy audience members enjoyed a journey into the music of Grammy winner Kirk Whalum and jazz/blues guitar virtuoso Jeff Golub which included some hot Memphis-flavored blues. The peak performance included everything from a rendition of The Stylistics’ You are Everything (and Everything is You) to Whalum’s Grover Worked and Underpaid tribute to the late Grover Washington Jr. to stellar contemporary jazz numbers to some down home blues and more. What made this particular evening even more magical was seeing the talented Jeff Golub doing what he…

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