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Great seats are still available for Joye in Aiken’s Joye to the World! Holiday Concert, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Dec.
7, at the Etherredge Center. Tickets are $50. Headlining this year’s edition of the concert are Joye in Aiken’s Artistic Director Riley Mulherkar, who created the original version of the show as the annual holiday concert for Jazz at Lincoln Center, and New York-based jazz artists Jumaane Smith and Tyreek McDole.
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-winning records (selling more than 60 million copies), two Emmy-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. Currently taking the New York jazz scene by storm, 24-year-old Tyreek McDole is the 2023 winner of the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. Only the second male to win in the competition’s 12e-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. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit joyeinaiken.com.
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