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Veronica Swift at Pittsfield CityJazz Festival at American Legion Hall
Courtesy of Edward Bride | Posted on September 21, 2018
When
Fri, October 12, 2018
8:00 pm
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Headline weekend for the 14th annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival opens with Veronica Swift, who is being recognized as one of the top young jazz singers on the scene. Concert starts at 8pm, $25. Optional Italian buffet dinner will be available at 6:30pm, and costs just $17 including tax and gratuity. Cash bar will be available.
She performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center at age 11, as part of the “Women in Jazz” series at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola. She won second place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition in 2015, and her album from that same year, “Lonely Woman,” features some of the hottest young jazz players on the scene including Emmet Cohen, Benny Bennack III, Daryl Johns (with whom she shared the Grammy Choir/Band experience), Matt Wigler, and Scott Lowrie. ...