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After dinner, they fired up both music venues for the evening. I chose the Paddlewheel Lounge because I wanted to see Eden Brent for the first time. Eden Brent is fresh from winning the 2006 Blues Foundation International Blues Challenge. She has humor and energy. She is friendly, spontaneous, versatile, and entertaining. She played a wide range of material including original material, jazz standards, boogie-woogie, and blues. Go see her when you get the opportunity. Following Eden Brent, Ann Rabson graced the Paddlewheel lounge with a fine piano, guitar, and vocal set. In person as a single act, Ann is not as uppity as she is with her fellow blues women. She is entertaining and funny. After Ann’s set, I went to the Columbia Showroom at the other end of the boat. Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band started to play. The room was already full of people who had, only a couple hours earlier, taken Zydeco dance lessons from Debra, the Zydeco dance instructor on-board. Chubby and his band played a hot party set. Twenty or so cruisers practiced their Zydeco dancing. “Ain’t no party like a Chubby party, and a Chubby party don’t stop!” Sunday Sunday morning, there was an education session by Hawkeye Herman in the Columbia Showroom. Woody Guthrie was the topic of the day, as the cruise included a chartered tour to Multnoma Fall and the Bonneville Dam. |
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