Maxwell Announces 'Silent Serenade’ Residency Third Ocean Cruise

After a nearly 30-year career studded with milestone achievements game-changing pioneer of the ‘90s neo soul movement, a string of gold and platinum albums and singles (“Pretty Wings,” “Lifetime” and “Simply Beautiful”) plus three Grammys, among other accolades — what’s next? If you’re Maxwell, you announce the itinerary and performer lineup for your third annual Urban Hang Suite Cruise. But in advance of that, you amp up your intimacy quotient with a new residency, The Silent Serenade Ensemble. Inspired by Maxwell’s The Serenade 2024 tour, The Silent Serenade Ensemble is a limited, four-night run of residencies at the MGM National Harbor in Washington, D.C. (Sept. 18, 19 & 20) and the historic Kings Theatre in the singer-songwriter-producer’s hometown of Brooklyn, New York (Sept. 28). Still continuing its run into 2025, Maxwell’s aforementioned The Serenade Tour wraps in October, featuring rotating support on various dates from special guests Lucky Daye, Marsha Ambrosius, Leela James and Kem. The ensemble can be anything we want,” explains Maxwell of the concept behind the upcoming Silent Serenade performances. “It can be a choir that sings in doo-wop, it can be all strings including harps, it can be reeds… It can be all kinds of versions and combinations of instruments that you’ve never seen put together before to present and perform songs that people know already and deeper cuts. Maxwell fans will recall this isn’t the first time the artist has rendered unique reinterpretations of his music. He performed at several sold-out dates in 2023, accompanied by symphony orchestras in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Washington, D.C. Opening the Silent Serenade dates will be singer-songwriter Yola, of whom Maxwell notes, “I saw her during the pandemic on either Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert, and she was singing a country rock record. I just love what she represents: her Blackness, her broadness, her scope, her limitless sense of things.

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