Dec 7, 2025 - Kaylee
Joy is a horn who only plays during the holidays. It’s her favorite time of the year and she loves to make as much music as she can while she’s able. She thinks her sound can inspire joy in even the grinchy-est, scroogey-est people!
Dec 7, 2024 - Steve
Kalimba from Kalypso. Wished they were a Marimba but they were just a pip slow.
Dec 16, 2023 - Kaylee
Story coming soon!
Dec 7, 2022 - Mike
Womper Womper! You can buy any guitar on Broadway in Nashville, but you can only buy a trumpet around Christmas. You walk into a Gibson dealer and go “Womper!” and they bring out this beaut!
2021- Lou
This blue is named Nana. It wants to watch Mickey Mouse
2020- Jenny
Abugela Bugelae was ditched. Just dropped at the side of the road in San Bernadino, California. Just like that, as if Abugela and her person hadn't been together for 13 years, 56 days, and 14 hours. She still remembers him waltzing into the music store, spotting her, and grabbing her by the skirt of her bell and kissing her mouthpiece. It was instant chemistry. But then he put her on top of the car and, completely distracted by his to do list that day, he backed out of his driveway and proceeded to the grocery store and she fell off the roof. Fell out of favor. Just like that. So now she waits in this roadside ditch to see if her person comes back.
2019 - Mike
Joyful Joyful, from CS Band! 2nd row from the front and behind the clarinets, this guy lives the life. Not too much pressure and hidden from the crowd, but still loud enough. The joys!
2018 - Steve
This man was born in Portugal. He was given the name “Enjoy Life” but his friends all call him “Joy”. He moved to Bordeaux when he was 15 and got into wine production working as a harvest intern. He now moves from hemisphere to hemisphere working wine jobs during different harvest seasons and has become one of the workd’s most sought after traveling wine producers.
2017 - Kaylee
Joy to the world, I’m a horn! Once, Bing Crosby put his lips on my mouthpiece. It was magical.
2016 - Mike
January, seems appropriate, ''tis the month where everyone goes back home from the cottage in the woods/condo on the beach feeling joyful and ready for the year ahead. the trumpet can be found in most musical instrument stores except for GuitarWorld - it's a chain!
2015 - Steve
Baby Blues from Flint, MI. He's been down in the dumps ever since the automobile industry crashed. In an effort to cheer Baby up, his friends got him drunk and tattooed the word Joy on him. He's only been more glum ever since.
2014 - Marc
Joy hails from Nicaragua and consequently pronounces her name "Yoy". She has a hard time fitting in because people are always telling her to be quiet. The exception is on New Years Eve, when people tell her to play as loud as she can and she is the life of the party. for this reason New Years is her favorite holiday.
2013 - Marc
This is Joy DeVerld II or "Joy Two" as her friends call her. Most of the year she can be heard playing some hot jazz in various clubs around Chicago, but come December, she switches over to all carols all the time.
2012 - Steve
This is Barbara Ann Sally Simpson or BRASS. She has always been a family girl. She was born into the Hartford Theatre Orchestra and has lived her whole life there. Her mother was a trombone and her father, interestingly, a bassoon. Her mother was run over by a drunk stage hand driving a fork lift and Barbara never got to say goodbye. She has her mother's name tattooed on her side, "Joy," in memory of her.
2011 - Jenny
Dehydrator Joy. It toots its merry tooting song on days, like today, when a dehydrator arrives at a residence. I can hear the glorious horn!
2010 - Marc
BAAdaadaa BAA BAA BAA!!!!! Neville Sombertooth is the swingingest jazz trumpet in all of New Orleans. People can't get enough of his sound. He loves to play Christmas carols this time of year, especially his own jazz interpretation of "Joy to the World". It's been known to bring entire audiences to tears.
2009 - Marc
Trumpet McTavish lives in County Cork, Ireland. He makes a living playing solo jazz tunes in pubs, traveling across all of Ireland. He makes a decent living at it, but deep in his heart he wishes he really wants to be a bagpipe.
2008 - Marc
Joy's real name is Joyce but she had it legally changed after a stalking incident with a tuba. She resides in Daytona Beach where she plays jazz standards nightly at the Cabana Club.
2007 - Jenny
It's name is TJ (short for Trumpet-Joy). He heralds the arrival of reindeer. This is a two-fold benefit; the children know reindeer are coming and the reindeer can tell where TJ is so that they don't fly into it in the sky and have a wreck.
2006 - Steve
His name is Joy. He used to travel with Miles Davis. But then after Miles Davis unfortunate death by drug overdose, he needed to clean his record by working for the United States Navy Band. What a Trooper!