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In-person Arts & Culture

Jazz Festival presents: Veronica Swift

Thursday, June 27, 2024
7:30pm to 9:00pm

Part of: Edmonton International Jazz Festival

MacEwan University

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Organized by: Edmonton Jazz Festival Society

June
27

Simply put, Swift is not only one of the most dazzling singers to emerge in her generation, she’s one of the most versatile.

Veronica Swift’s new eponymously titled album, her third for Mack Avenue Records, is a masterful coming-out story. On her previous albums, Confessions (2019) and This Bitter Earth (2021), she ascended to the upper echelon of early 21st century jazz singers because of her virtuosic brilliance, interpretive ingenuity, bracing songwriting, and keen arrangements. Simply put, Swift is not only one of the most dazzling singers to emerge in her generation, she’s one of the most versatile.

While her first two albums solidified her position in modern jazz, Veronica Swift shows that she’s more than a jazz singer, exploring French and Italian opera, European classical music, bossa nova, blues, industrial rock, funk, and vaudeville. She pulls the feat off without the results sounding callow or pastiche. Swift’s expansive artistic voice remains firmly intact regardless of genre.

MacEwan University

Triffo Theatre

10700 104 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T5J 4S2