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10/28/18
Spyro Gyra

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Sunday, October 28, 2018 12:00PM

Sunday, October 28, 2018 4:00PM

On Sunday October 28, don’t miss a live concert with contemporary jazz band, Spyro Gyra, aboard the Spirit of New York Cruise Ship, dockside! Shows start at 12:00pm and 4:00pm.

Due to mechanical issues, the boat will not be sailing. Spyro Gyra will be performing live on the boat, dockside.

A delicious lunch buffet with freshly prepared entrees, salads and desserts is available for purchase on board, as well as creative cocktails, wine and beer from Spirit’s well-stocked cash bar.

All decks of Spirit of New York are climate controlled. Children are welcome, and infants under three cruise free. Spirit of New York is docked at Pier 61 @ Chelsea Piers.

About Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra is an unlikely story of a group with humble beginnings in Buffalo, NY who has continued to reach an international audience over forty years, resulting in sales of over 10 million albums and having played over five thousand shows on five continents. They have accomplished this due to a forward looking approach combined with the work ethic of an underdog, always challenging themselves to do something new while never resting on past success. It has proven to be a recipe for longevity for this jazz group while music has gone in and out of styles in ever shorter cycles.

Spyro Gyra are contemporary jazz icons who observed their fortieth year as a band in 2014 with shows that showcased their breakthrough Morning Dance album. After that year of looking back, they decided to spend 2015 concentrating on their more recent material, playing many songs from their post 2000 releases. The audience reaction was so positive to their recent material that bandleader Jay Beckenstein decided that their albums from that period deserved a little more focus. So, in order to spotlight this innovative and productive period, Spyro Gyra is releasing “The Best Of The Heads Up Years” this spring.

They released their last, their 30th, album of new material The Rhinebeck Sessions in 2013, which Jazztimes called “inspired”. Travis Rogers of the Jazz Journalists Association picked it for Jazz Album Of The Year. Something Else Reviews called it “Their finest album since their early 80s heyday” and made it a TopTwenty pick for the year. George Harris of the Jazz Weekly enthused, “I gotta tell ya, these guys still sound GREAT.”

“My hope is that our music has the same effect on the audience that it does on me,” says group leader Jay Beckenstein. “I’ve always felt that music, and particularly instrumental music, has this non-literal quality that lets people travel to a place where there are no words. Whether it’s touching their emotions or connecting them to something that reminds them of something much bigger than themselves, there’s this beauty in music that’s not connected to sentences. It’s very transportive. I would hope that when people hear our music or come to see us, they’re able to share that with us.”

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