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The seven-day Blues Cruise is held twice a year, He has realized his goal, regularly selling out
leaving San Diego in October and Ft. Lauderdale in the 2,200-passenger ships, including several
January. hundred people who seem to show up for nearly
Naber, a long-time club owner in Kansas City, every cruise.
Mo., knows the loyalty of the strongest blues fans, The music propels these cruises. The Octo-
and he wants to push it a step further. He figures ber cruise to the Sea of Cortez featured 33 mu-
that seven-days aboard the ship would find artists sical acts, each playing three or four times
and their fans mingling like never before. during the week, and another dozen of so pro-

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