During the past 24 years promoter and organizer Sixthman has presented over 150 themed festivals on the high seas. Those festivals, which push off from its Miami, Florida home port, now number 28 and permit guests (over 300,000 so far) to be captive audiences with their favorite artists, athletes, actors, comedians, and more. Or, perhaps it's a more apt description to say that the artists and others are the captive ones, since once on board you're on the ship to stay. There's no shuttling off to the next town.
Two of these festivals, Cayamo and Outlaw Country Cruise, are of note to ND readers and Lens column fans since both present stellar line-ups of roots musicians, mixing legends such as Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Jeff Tweedy, and Lucinda Williams with up and comers like Devon Gilfillian, Rainbow Girls, Roberta Lea, and Will Hoge.
