Veronica Swift – Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Veronica Swift performs as part of the Marquee Series for the 2024 Vancouver International Jazz Festival on Monday, June 24, 2024, at the Vancouver Playhouse, 600 Hamilton Street in Vancouver. For tickets or festival schedules, please visit coastaljazz.ca.

Veronica Swift has been ascending to the upper echelon of 21st-century jazz singers over the last few years; with the interpretive ingenuity, bracing songwriting, and keen arrangements of her new eponymously titled album, she’s most certainly arrived.

While the Wall Street Journal has praised her “miraculous voice and innate gift for entertaining a crowd,” Swift’s not just one of the most dazzling singers of her generation; she’s also one of the most versatile. We hear moments of inspiration from Chopin and Beethoven, Puccini and Antônio Carlos Jobim, Queen and Nine Inch Nails, as Swift stirs opera, European classical music, bossa nova, blues, industrial rock, funk, and vaudeville into the melting pot of her dynamic, joyful modern jazz.

The Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Vancouver’s signature kick-off to summer in the city, celebrates its 39th edition from Friday, June 21 to Sunday, June 30, at various venues around the city.