Maxwell’s ‘Silent Serenade Ensemble’ Rules Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre: Every Song From the Setlist

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The R&B icon's hometown amusement lit up New York City. Get each the details here.

9/29/2025

Maxwell performs astatine Kings Theater successful Brooklyn, NY.

Next twelvemonth marks the 30th day of Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite, the landmark debut medium from R&B icon Maxwell, and the three-time Grammy victor is celebrating successful advance.

On Sunday evening (Sept. 28), Maxwell played the last nighttime of The Silent Serenade Ensemble, a constricted tally of intimate shows crossed the 2 East Coast cities astir intimately intertwined with his beingness and career: Brooklyn, New York and Washington, D.C. After 3 consecutive nights astatine MGM National Harbor successful D.C., Maxwell brought his amusement to his hometown astatine the historical Kings Theatre.

Kicking things disconnected with tons of enigmatic fume and a afloat tally of Kehlani‘s “Let Me Down (San Diego Interlude),” a way from her 2024 While We Wait 2 mixtape, Maxwell steadily built up the crowd’s anticipation earlier yet taking the signifier with 1998’s “Gravity: Pushing to Pull.” Over the pursuing 90 minutes, Maxwell treated Kings Theatre to a singular amusement filled with seductively masterful vocals that flaunted his instrument’s wellness and range, an incredibly tight, a mostly homegrown set and orchestra, and a career-spanning setlist that decently honored his 3 decades of R&B innovation.

Of course, Maxwell besides trotted retired a fewer of his now-signature onstage creation moves, arsenic good arsenic the viral mashup of his ain “Fortunate” and Beyoncé‘s “16 Carriages,” a azygous from her Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter album. With each shoutout to the 718, the incomparable mélange of cultures, styles, and sounds that comprise Brooklyn coursed done each infinitesimal of Maxwell’s thrilling set.

Coming connected the heels of past year’s Serenade Tour, this caller tally of dates featured wholly caller arrangements of his classical hits (“Fortunate” and “Pretty Wings” some made appearances) and deeper cuts (2001’s “Silently” was an casual highlight), backed by a crisp drawstring quartet, knockout organist and pitch-perfect inheritance singers.

Although Sunday evening was a clip of solemnisation and reflection, Maxwell’s heartwarming humility and infectious vigor lone made the assemblage acceptable for different hr of R&B greatness. If anything, this remains the biggest question pursuing his hometown show: When connected Earth volition Maxwell merchandise blacksummer’sNIGHT and implicit the trilogy helium kicked disconnected 16 years ago?!

Here’s each opus Maxwell played astatine his fantabulous Silent Serenade Ensemble amusement astatine Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre.