Joye in Aiken rings in the merry season with New York’s most talented jazz artists! Led by Artistic Director Riley Mulherkar, who created the original version of this show for Jazz at Lincoln Center, the program will take the holiday cheer to new heights with a fun setlist of beloved holiday standards and classics.
Prepare for a sparkling evening of glitz and glamour, as Riley, Jumaane, Tyreek and three other sensational artists bring a jazzy Big Apple-style opening to the holiday season in Aiken!

Jumaane Smith has spent the last 18 years touring and recording with Michael Buble as lead trumpeter, vocalist and featured soloist. He has performed on five GRAMMY Award-winning records , 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.

Currently taking the New York jazz scene by storm, 24-year-old Tyreek 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 twelve-year history, he is also the 2018 winner of Lincoln Center’s Outstanding Vocalist Award. Tyreek’s degree in jazz performance is from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Joye in Aiken is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the very best in the performing arts available to our citizens, and especially our students.