In the age of social media, hits and views matter as much as tickets sold. A cappella sensation Voctave has drawn a substantial virtual following, surpassing records and gaining more than 150 million social media views of their videos. Formed in 2015 by producer and arranger Jamey Ray, the voices that bring their arrangements to life represent a wealth of diverse backgrounds and musical experiences. Their latest album, The Spirit of the Season, Deluxe Edition, reached No. 6 on the Billboard charts. The eleven members of central-Florida-based Voctave have performed across the globe and have appeared on countless recordings, including with many Grammy Award recipients. The Harriman-Jewell Series welcomes this group for their Kansas City debut, just in time to celebrate the holiday season!

Voces Festivas, Kansas City's Spanish-language choral ensemble, celebrates the Christmas season and Hispanic heritage with its first holiday concert. Music Director Leilani Velasco Vaughn leads the new ensemble with guest artists Victoria Botero, soprano and percussionist Sean Sweeden as it performs in one of America's most beautiful churches, Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in Kansas City.

The Kansas City Kansas Community College Art Gallery is hosting a celebration of South Asian culture through art, dance, and classical music from the sub-continent of India in celebration of its exhibition opening reception for 'Adapted/Adopted: Journey of Asianx Women Artists' on October 27, Thursday from 4:30 to 7:30 pm. Located in the Art Gallery and the Jewel Center on the KCKCC campus. The event is free and open to the public. The exhibition is on display from Oct. 17 to Dec. 9; please email sperry@kckcc.edu to schedule your tour.  Curator Karlota Contreras-Koterbay, Director of Slocumb Galleries & Midsouth Sculpture Alliance Board member will speak about the complex and often understudied struggles of Asian women as they adapt to mainstream American culture. The exhibition features six Asian American women artists who employ art as an adaptation strategy in their plight to reinvestigate their hybrid identities as they seek belonging and visibility in their new home country in the U.S. Some of the artists also address the adoption phenomenon of children of Asian descent being transnationally relocated and raised in American families, visualizing memories and opportunities as vital issues.

Rezound!, Kansas City’s premier auditioned handbell ensemble, has entertained audiences for over 20 years. The ensemble has collaborated with area choral and instrumental groups in a variety of concert settings and has gained a nationwide following on its annual summer tours. With 15 musicians and more than 300 individual handbells and chimes, each lending its unique timbre to the overall musicality of the performance, a Rezound! concert is like a symphony of bells. We are looking forward to sharing our music with you this holiday season! Free admission — donations accepted.

The Kansas City Chorale presents the Midwest Premiere of a new genre of choral music. This storytelling event offers a new musical interpretation of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens.  Grammy-nominated composer Benedict Sheehan has created a concert-length story score that weaves familiar Christmas carols and a choral orchestration into the fabric of the Dickens story.  As a storyteller dramatically orates the haunting tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the Kansas City Chorale performs a dramatic and exceptionally demanding soundtrack that includes many lush arrangements of favorite carols.  Don't miss this exciting production that promisses to be a new holiday favorite!

Vozzella is Director of Music-Organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Kansas City and and a staff organist at the Community of Christ World Headquarters in Independence, Missouri. He has served as dean of the Black Hills Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and National Repertoire and Resources Chair for Music in Worship of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).  His musical compositions are published by Alliance, Augsburg, Abingdon, Selah, CanticaNOVA, St. James Music Press, Sheet Music Plus and Music Notes. Vozzella has received five ASCAP Plus Awards.  As a presenter/performer, he has presented at state, regional and national ACDA and AGO conventions, toured in twenty-six states, the District of Columbia and eleven countries, most recently Germany. His choirs have sung for the Tennessee ACDA, the White House by invitation of President and Mrs. George W. Bush, the Harlem Globetrotters, and have received invitations from the Kansas MEA and Texas ACDA conferences. Vozzella holds degrees from the University of South Carolina, the University of Louisiana-Monroe, and Eastern Nazarene College with additional work was completed at the Royal School of Church Music-UK, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Nazarene Theological Seminary, the Conductor’s Institute of South Carolina as well as in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Russia. Organ study has been with Lambert Brandes, Paul Hale, John Ditto, including masterclasses with Peter Hurford, Marie-Claire Alain, and John Obetz and organ improvisation with Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvard, Samuel Liégeon, Frédéric Blanc. Covid Protocols: Westport Presbyterian Church requires masks at this time. Masks and hand sanitizer will be provided to those who need them. The Noontime Concerts previously were known as the Brown Bag series. However, following the pandemic, the name has been changed to Noontime Concerts and audience members are now asked not to bring a lunch as eating is not allowed inside the church.   Audiences are, however, welcome to stay and visit with the performers from a distance after the concert.