Camel City Jazz Orchestra presents our annual Holiday Concert. Join us for a festive evening of music in the big band tradition.
Featuring vocalist Nishah DiMeo
Two separately ticketed performances will take place in the Agnes de Mille Theatre on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
December 19, 2024
at 5:30 and 8:00 PM
Nishah DiMeo
With unique vocal stylings and a seemingly limitless range, Nishah DiMeo has been studying, recording and performing music for over three decades, covering genres from alternative to zydeco…..though jazz has slowly become her favorite. Born in New Jersey in 1977, she began her studies at the age of 4 at the Freedom Theater in Philadelphia. Her family came back to it’s roots in Greensboro, NC in 1988, where she continued her study of the arts through dance, theater, piano and flute, in choirs and private classical voice training. Since the age of 18, she’s recorded and graced stages across the country with numerous artists, competing & winning Battles of the Bands, headlining shows and opening for international artists, including The English Beat, Eek-A-Mouse, Jeff Lorber and Four80East. Nishah was chosen for the 2014 Coltrane All-Stars Band in the John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival - a concert boasting a list of notables such as George Benson, Boney James and Al Jarreau. She was also featured in the 2017 National Folk Festival. She currently performs with a network of talented musicians & bands in NC, a SC based big band and corporate bands based in Atlanta & Richmond.