Cruiseflash – April ‘17 Mardi Magic! With live blues, jazz, boogie, soul and rock & roll, our celebration of the music of New Orleans – ‘the Home of the Blues’ – was a ‘Mardi Marvel’ … a great addition to the canon of P&O ‘Blues@Sea’ mini-cruises. We enjoyed our artists performing songs from Dr John, Lee Dorsey, Allan Toussaint, Little Richard, Louis Armstrong, Irma Thomas, Fats Domino and many more ‘Crescent City’ favourites. It was wonderful to see so much musical collaboration including the ‘eight- hand-boogie’ from Dale, Justin, Paddy and Dom, Debbie singing ‘It’s Raining’ (for the first time in her life) with Dom and the Ikos and Ed, from the Revs, singing our
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Cruiseflash – April ‘17
Mardi Magic!
With live blues, jazz, boogie, soul and rock & roll, our celebration of the music of New Orleans – ‘the Home of the Blues’ – was a ‘Mardi Marvel’ … a great addition to the canon of P&O ‘Blues@Sea’ mini-cruises.We enjoyed our artists performing songs from Dr John, Lee Dorsey, Allan Toussaint, Little Richard, Louis Armstrong, Irma Thomas, Fats Domino and many more ‘Crescent City’ favourites.It was wonderful to see so much musical collaboration including the ‘eight-hand-boogie’ from Dale, Justin, Paddy and Dom, Debbie singing ‘It’s Raining’ (for the first time in her life) with Dom and the Ikos and Ed, from the Revs, singing our anthem ‘Sea Cruise’ with a massed band of a bassist and two pianists, two trumpeters, two drummers, two trombonists, two saxophonists and some pretty impressive dancing (not least from the Transformation Station crew!)There are lots more pictures and videos on www.bluescruiseuk.com and on our Blues@Sea Facebook page.If you have any more images/ videos please forward them so we can include them, too.
Congratulations to the Kaz Hawkins Band (Northern Ireland) who having won the UK Blues Challenge in 2016 reached the semi-final of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis this year before winning the European Blues Challenge in Denmark. One prize for
winning the UK event was a booking on our ‘Cruise’ – we’re delighted to welcome them aboard
(Thanks to John Ashton and Megan Williamson for the pictures on the left)
Congratulations to Mike Avery (Essex) who won the signed Mardi Gras poster. As promised by ‘Cowling Wolf’ a jpeg of the poster is attached
should you want to get one printed for your own wall.©The 100% Unofficial Fanzine for P&O ‘Bluescruises’
Blues@Sea #4P&O International Blues Revue –
3rd/5th November 2017The line-up is now complete for the third ‘Blues Cruise’. It comprises – not one, but TWO winning acts from the European Blues Challenge Germany’s top blues band…playing at a venue in Amsterdam Norman Beaker’s Band with FOUR of the UK’s top artists.
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Max and Veronica (Italy) won the same European title in 2013. Both members of this acoustic-duo are multi-instrumentalists playing lively, old-time bluesSee them playing Sister Rosetta Tharpe's 'Up Above My Head'
No stranger to UK audiences from his spell as Memo Gonzales’
guitarist, Kai Strauss will bring his Electric Blues All Stars to a venue
in Amsterdam for an exclusive ‘Cruisers’ concert.
They were voted German blues band of the year 2016
Cruise 1Singer/ songwriter guitar-wielding bluesman Jon Amor has, over two decades, featured in the Hoax, the Boom Band, the Jon Amor Blues Band as well as frequently appearing in solo and duet concerts. We’re eagerly anticipating his first time aboard.
Cruise 2We’re delighted to see (Dr) Tom Attah returning after being opening act on the very first P&O ‘Bluescruise’ in 2015. Before November Tom will be making several diverse appearances ranging from the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, Colne to the Royal Musical Association Annual Conference where he’ll be delivering a lecture on ‘The Development, Dissemination and Perpetuation of Blues Music and Blues Culture in the Digital Age’!
Cruise 3
Norman Beaker, our MD, was paid the great compliment of being elected to the US Blues Hall of Fame in the ‘Legendary’ category alongside the likes of John Lee Hooker, Etta James, Koko Taylor, BB King, Taj Mahal and Bo Diddley!Click here to read Norman’s interview about the honour in Britain
Making a very welcome third appearance we have our own ‘Queen of the Seas’ Kyla Brox.Travelling abroad is second nature to her with multiple gigs in Holland, France, Sweden and Switzerland to squeeze in before we sail.
Completing our on board line-up we have Johnny Hewitt whose blues harp-playing, for many, is unsurpassed in the UK.
Online booking for the cruise will open soon (I know that lots of you are
‘straining at the leash’) …expect another e-mail in the near future!www.bluescruiseuk.com
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