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Joye in Aiken, the nonprofit organization that annually brings Juilliard-trained artists to Aiken for its Performing Arts Festival and Outreach Program, has opened ticket sales for its Dec. 7 Joye to the World! Holiday Concert. The concert begins at 7:30 p.
m. The concert is hosted by Joye in Aiken’s Juilliard-trained Artistic Director Riley Mulherkar, who created the original version of the show for Jazz at Lincoln Center. The program will feature a fun setlist of beloved holiday standards in a variety show format.
Mulherkar will be joined on stage by five other internationally acclaimed jazz musicians, including trumpeter/vocalist Jumaane Smith (the organization’s 2023 Joye of Jazz headliner) and 24-year-old Haitian-American vocalist Tyreek McDole, making his Aiken debut. Smith has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Bublé as lead trumpeter, vocalist and featured soloist. He has performed on five Grammy Award-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), two Emmy Award-nominated TV performances, and the Grammy Awards with Stevie Wonder.
He has appeared in Steven Spielberg’s "West Side Story" (as a trumpet solo actor), at the White House, and on the "Today Show," "The Tonight Show," "Oprah," "Good Morning America" and "American Idol." He was a full scholarship student in The Juilliard School of Music’s Jazz Studies program from 2001 to 2005, with Wynton Marsalis as his primary trumpet teacher. McDole is the 2023 winner of the extremely prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.
Only the second male ever to win in the competition’s entire 12-year history, he is also the 2018 winner of Lincoln Center's Outstanding Vocalist Award. McDole’s degree in jazz performance is from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Joye in Aiken President Susie Ferrara notes that the concert is a chance to see a fabulous Jazz at Lincoln Center-style production, without the cost of a plane ticket.
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” Ferrara promises that the concert will bring its own fun December-in-New York vibe. “The show is very glitzy and glamorous,” she said. “You really do get that sense of Big Apple style, even though it’s all happening on the Etherredge Center stage.
It’s become one of our most popular events, because it’s just such a unique way to celebrate the holidays here. It’s one of the really special things that Aiken has to offer.” Tickets to the Joye to the World! Holiday Concert are $50.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit joyeinaiken.com or call the Etherredge Center box office at 803-641-3305..
