The Town of Smyrna is proud to announce the return of the Summer Concert Series in George C. Wright Municipal Park.
Bring a blanket and enjoy great live entertainment from 6-8pm. Gable Music Ventures is programming the entertainment with concerts happening every other Wednesday through early August.
Joy Ike began playing music in earnest while in college, gravitating to piano as a tool to aid her greatest passion - songwriting. “I believe good music is simply poetry with a soundtrack” she says. Out of college she worked her hometown scene in Pittsburgh, PA at night while working for a book publish firm during the day. The untimely 2008 passing of her brother caused a sudden shift in perspective. “For the first time, I truly felt the brevity and uncertainty of life” tells Ike. “I left my job one week after he died.” Rushing headfirst into uncertainty shaped her 2008 debut LP Good Morning, which explored themes of starting fresh and beginning again. Five years of striving towards her dream of making it as an artist lead to 2013’s All or Nothing. Through those years Ike garnered praise from the likes of NPR's All Things Considered, who called her “...a voice and talent beyond her years,” and SoulBounce which described her music as “...a sensational slice of urgent piano-soul.”