Veronica Swift at Pittsfield CityJazz Festival at American Legion Hall

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. ...

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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.

She moved to New York City in 2016 and almost immediately started performing every Saturday night at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club, a gig she continues to maintain when she isn't on the road. Earlier this year, she appeared in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s reprisal of the famous Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert.

In addition to performing the Great American Songbook and bebop and vocalese classics, the 24-year-old Swift is a passionate devotee of 20s and 30s music. Last year at this time, she was on tour with Chris Botti in California.

Veronica appears with the Berkshires Jazz All-Star Trio: pianist Benny Kohn; bassist Mary Ann McSweeney, and drummer Conor Meehan.

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