NEWS & EVENTS

TOMS RIVER, NJ — World-renowned swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy brings its fun and quirky take on the holidays to OCC’s Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 4. This is one holiday party you definitely don’t want to miss!

For 30 years, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy’s unique take on American swing and jazz music has thrilled audiences around the world, while their spirited “Wild and Swingin’ Holiday Party” has become an eagerly anticipated annual family event. Singer and band leader Scotty Morris says, “If you’re going to go to a holiday show with your family, this is the one! It really does offer something for everyone.”

Drawing on a rich catalog of holiday classics and Christmas originals from the band’s two full-length holiday albums, the show features fun arrangements of classic holiday songs in Big Bad Voodoo Daddy style, including: Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, and Winter Wonderland. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is “Andrew’s Sisters” meets the blues, and the just as classic Heat Miser song transports listeners back to another beloved holiday special. The band rips through Chuck Berry’s Run, Run Rudolph, Lou Rawls’ Merry Christmas Baby, and slows things down for Elvis Presley’s Blue Christmas. Detours to New Orleans for Frosty the Snowman, and to the Caribbean for the Calypso A Party for Santa, keep things interesting. The band takes a moment to reflect on the beauty and spirituality of the holidays with their moving arrangement of We Three Kings.

Tickets are $54 orchestra / $44 mezzanine and can be purchased online at grunincenter.org; by phone at 732-255-0500; or in person at the Grunin Center Box Office. The Grunin Center is located on OCC’s main campus on College Drive in Toms River, NJ.