Swingin’ Through the Holidays: The Barclay Jazz & Beyond Orchestra Featuring Ann Hampton Callaway

Name: Swingin’ Through the Holidays: The Barclay Jazz & Beyond Orchestra Featuring Ann Hampton Callaway
Start: 2025-12-10T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Irvine Barclay Theatre

Schedule

Wed, 10 Dec, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Irvine Barclay Theatre | Irvine, CA

Swingin’ Through the Holidays
The Barclay Jazz & Beyond Orchestra
Shelly Berg - The Tom and Mayumi Adams Music Director
Featuring Ann Hampton Callaway and Kirk Whalum
Wed. Dec. 10, 2025 at 8pm
Irvine Barclay Theatre
4242 Campus Dr, Irvine, CA 92612
(949) 854-4646
Swing into the holidays at Irvine Barclay Theatre when The Barclay Jazz & Beyond Orchestra rings in the season with a swinging night of holiday cheer. The music will range from new arrangements of jazz Christmas classics to contemporary holiday hits.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Singer, composer, and pianist Ann Hampton Callaway’s mastery of jazz, pop, and cabaret has thrilled audiences across the globe, whether she appears on concert stages, theaters, or on film and TV. Broadway World voted her Entertainer of the Year and Best Jazz Vocalist two years in a row, and she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her knockout performance in Swing!
Saxophonist Kirk Whalum is a passionate and soulful Grammy-award winning soloist. An ordained minister with deep gospel roots, Whalum gets to the heart of any and all music he plays, as he has proven on concerts and recordings with legendary artists such as Luther Vandross and Whitney Houston.
Shelly Berg—an in-demand music director, bandleader, arranger, composer and pianist—is the artistic director for The Jazz Cruises, artistic advisor for the Jazz Roots series at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami and Dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.