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Boy, those folks at Sixthman sure are on the ball. It’s only April, two short months after the 2008 Cayamo cruise, and yet they already have the dates booked for 2009.
The singer-songwriter cruise will feature many of the same artists from this year’s event: Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt (whom Paste editor-in-chief, Josh Jackson, interviewed on the boat), Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller. There is also the promise of more great artists being introduced as the year goes on.
Cayamo, which focuses on folk, blues and Americana, will be sailing out of Miami on Norwegian Cruiselines on February 28 and returning March 7, 2009. It will feature the four sigh-inducing ports of Samana, St. Thomas, Tortola and Great Stirrup Cay.
If you’ve sailed with Cayamo before, or have already registered for a Sixthman username, then you will be getting an e-mail in the next few weeks with a registration date. If not, and you think sailing on a boat filled with musicians to exotic, tropical locations and seeing free concerts sounds like fun, then head on over to Sixthman.net for additional information.
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Cayamo.com
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I found this unfortunate comment on another web site. Posted by some Canadian homophobe:
Paul says:
I was on Cayamo this year and I’m going again in 2009. I had a very good time.
Shortly after the cruise I met a couple at a party who had also been on Cayamo. I was very surprised that their only complaint was the significant number of gay women on board - some came as Patty Griffin fans but most were dedicated followers of Brandi Carlisle. I am also a big fan of Patty and I had owned a Brandi CD but we never had seen Brandi perform before. This gay contingent didn’t bother my wife or me in the least but this couple we met said they were in situations on board where some groups of the lesbians were getting obnoxious. They said if Brandi was invited again in 2009 they would not go - and yet I did not sense this couple were crazy religious or homophobic or anything like that and they said they had gay friends…they just felt overwhelmed by the significant percentage of lesbians who seemed to be there just to see Brandi and to party hard and not to see all the other musicians.
Well now for 2009 Cayamo has booked Brandi again but also added the Indigo Girls who have a HUGE following of gay women, so I assume the passengers may be about 50% gay this time. I don’t know if Cayamo is going to make the Indigo Girls headliners - I hope not because I still have hopes for another major artist or two to be booked and the Indigo Girls haven’t been popular outside of the gay community for 20 years and I have no particular interest in seeing them perform. They were a strange choice in my opinion because they hardly even record anymore - they are so 80’s!
My only real concern is that Cayamo doesn’t turn into a Rosie O’Donnell cruise. I hope for 90% of the passengers to be there as fans of at least most of the musicians and appreciative of all. I really enjoyed seeing Brandi perform but I noticed that her gay fan base was not in attendance at most of the other concerts. Therefore, I concluded they were there just for Brandi - that hurts the balance of things for the Cayamo cruise because it is all about the entirety of the music, not just a venue for lesbians to go on a cruise with the comfort and kinship of other gay women.
I hope I have not come off as inappropriate or offensive in my comments - I certainly did not mean to. I go on Cayamo for all the music provided in an environment of a dedicated, knowledgeable and respectful audience (getting out of the Canadian winter for a week is a bit of a factor also to tell the truth). There are gay cruises with entertainment (quite possibly the Indigo Girls are booked on them) and then there is what Cayamo tries to be. I hope the two types of holiday experiences don’t get confused so that my experience on Cayamo is negatively impacted by not being surrounded entirely by lovers of the same type of music.