Do You Want Celebrity To Bring Back the A Cappella Groups?

[miched]

If want acapella buy Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time". That is long enough to keep my attention for that style.

 

Happy cruising 🌊🚢🇺🇸🌞

[warmwinds]

If you had asked me 6 months ago I would have said definitely, we really like them.

 

But after taking a (2 week) cruise without them, we really didn't miss them. Thinking objectively, they do sort of all sound the same. So while I would like them if they were there, I honestly don't care that they are not.

[Oville]

No for us.

[Ozzmund]

Much rather have some Jazz or Acoustic Guitar.

[WALKER1313]

We could find four guys from a local high school that would be better than any of the a capella groups that we've seen onboard.

[bonapart5]

All the groups we saw were very talented and enjoyable. So it is a yes.

[TeaBag]

No, we don't miss them.

[Iamcruzin]

NO. If they were such a big hit and attracted passengers to spend money in the lounges or if there were a lot of positive comments on the survey than I'm sure Celebrity would have kept them on. My guess is that the passengers are requesting more contemporary forms of entertainment and they received negative feedback on the surveys.

[ischeer]

No, thank you

[Cruise a holic]

All the groups we saw were very talented and enjoyable. So it is a yes.

 

bring them back! Discontinue horrible caned music around ship. Replace with true relaxing listening music.

[NLH Arizona]

No, please don't bring them back. Bring on some more modern musical groups.

[Ex-Airbalancer]

It depends on the cruise

When they had them on TAs , a lot of women would follow the group around the ship

Then there was 2 young ladies singers, with acoustic guitars, they were truely bad

 

Really I do not care who playing as long as they are good

[macusr]

Yes - it was one of the ways that Celebrity distinguished themselves from the other mass market lines.

[AnchorsAweigh2011]

Music is like food, everyone has different tastes!

[chamima]

I don't miss them at all. If I wanted Celebrity to bring back certain types of musicians, a cappella groups would not be my first choice. They get rather boring after a short time.

 

If a touch of class and ambiance is what I wanted, I would bring back the string quartet that used to play during dinner. They were much classier than a cappella groups.

 

String trios and quartets.

 

We didn't really like the acapella groups either but LOVE the string quartets and trios.

REALLY hoping those are still on Celebrity!

[Rob the Cruiser]

No thank-you.

[patterson3]

That would be a yes for me. Eliminating them certainly isn't going to make me stop cruising Celebrity, but the a cappella groups I've seen in the past certainly made our cruises more enjoyable.

[richsea]

Different strokes and all that. For me, bring back the accapella groups, but while I don't mind them (different strokes) they can leave the string quartets at Downtown Abbey.

[mike x ftc]

To be honest, I quite like the entertainment round the ship but I thought they were a bit dull, and their sets were so short, they never sang more than about 4 songs then had a break:eek: I wish my working day was like that....

[phoenix_dream]

I enjoy the groups, but I would rather they spend the entertainment money elsewhere. Problem is, based on my recent sailings, they just ditched the groups and did not bother trying to enhance other live music. This was one of my (few but important to me) complaints on my recent Summit cruise - a real lack of live entertainment across the ship both in number of musicians as well as available times. Even though there are now multiple options of times to dine rather than traditional MDR, the music in Rendezvous was always timed for entertainment right before the traditional MDR seatings and only canned music in-between. Other options were very lacking as well - they may have a duo at the Sunset bar. Interesting choice, as there is of course very limited seating there. Canned music has its place I suppose, but this is getting ridiculous. Celebrity was never known necessarily for its shows in the theater (sometimes very good but usually okay but nothing to write home about), but they always used to have a good selection of live music virtually all of the evening from 5:00ish on past mid-night. Those days are long gone and yes, this is one of the deteriorations in the Celebrity product that those of us who have sailed for a long time really notice and miss. Overall still a great cruise line, but cutbacks in entertainment are very noticeable. I can't honestly believe that these particular cutbacks are saving that much $$ per sailing. I know it all adds up, but still....

Edited December 31, 2014 by phoenix_dream

[foodsvcmgr]

Don't care for a capella in any setting, so put me down as a "No".

I do enjoy string quartets however, the one on CONSTELLATION Nov. 29th was excellent.

[FunForUs]

No, we much prefer jazz and/or string groups.

[MGK]

nope.

 

That's "Classic Luxury". Celebrity is "Modern Luxury".

 

I agree with Cle Guy on this one. I am 46, not 86.

 

On my recent cruise on the Summit "The Lost Boys" were fantastic. Also worthy of mention were the flamenco guitar stylings of Nestor Santurio. The guy was great. :D

[txd]

Don't care for a capella in any setting, so put me down as a "No".

I do enjoy string quartets however, the one on CONSTELLATION Nov. 29th was excellent.

 

We missed string quartets too. I hope Celebrity will bring them back.

It was such a pleasure and a treat to hear them playing every night.

[Jerseymountaineer]

We are absolutely in favor of having the ACappella groups return. While both of us are knowledgable of and enjoy many aspects of vocal and

instrumental music we find the energy and just plain fun part of

the groups ( and by the way the attractiveness to the millenium and younger generation) reasons why their return would be welcome by many.

 

I know when we took our children ( late teens early 20's) on a Celebrity

Cruise with the ACapella group they both enjoyed and met and made

friends with a number of like aged and minded young adults.

 

Both children have continued as Celebrity Cruise customers and I believe this was one of the experiences they still comment on during our cruise.

 

Hal and Bernice