{"id":378459,"date":"2025-11-14T14:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378459\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:07:19","slug":"veronica-swift-performs-in-phoenix-with-the-django-festival-allstars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378459\/","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Swift performs in Phoenix with the Django Festival Allstars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tJazz vocalist Veronica Swift.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

TBA Agency<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going to do anything in this world, especially as an artist, you\u2019ve got to know where you come from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veronica Swift, an accomplished jazz singer who also has chops in rock, opera, and much more, will soon be bringing her talents to Phoenix<\/a> on a tour with the Django Festival Allstars<\/a>. During this show, Arizona fans will find themselves back in another time as the performers take the stage on Nov. 18 at the Musical Instrument Museum.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Swift\u2019s journey started young, traveling and performing music that many of her peers didn\u2019t understand or relate to. Though young people then couldn\u2019t understand someone their age performing \u201cold people music,\u201d she\u2019s found that her audience today is far more expansive than this age limitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy audience is a lot of students,\u201d Swift said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty balanced between old and young. If anything, I definitely see the value in the institutionalization of music in terms of academia and bringing it to students and younger people who didn\u2019t grow up with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Swift is one of many classically inspired artists tasked with carrying the torch of many traditional genres into the future, a future that is not commercially prioritizing them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Django Festival Allstars featuring Veronica Swift.<\/p>\n

Musical Instrument Museum<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a fine line between changing the course of things and preserving the tradition. And I never really saw myself as someone who wanted to (only) preserve the tradition, because then that sounds like I\u2019m just a museum piece, not a living, breathing thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally, Swift prioritized jazz alone due to its familiar family history, job security and the overall pressure from the music business industry to pick a lane. It\u2019s certainly not a decision she regrets, but growing as an artist has taken her to places and sounds outside of any rigid, traditional bounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Classical styles of jazz and opera may not infiltrate much of mainstream consumption, as labels and popular appeal are heavily prioritized by the music business at large, but Swift has found a creative haven of sorts in blending and playing with styles, sometimes all on one record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her 2023 self-titled album<\/a> is a project she\u2019s called \u201ctransgenre,\u201d and features a wide array of all her influences and interests, ranging from jazz to opera and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAn artistic person is somebody who is fueled by inspiration from things all around, creating and seeing what isn\u2019t there and what could be,\u201d Swift said. \u201cAnd that lends itself to a lifetime of many projects. Just look at David Bowie: from record to record, he was a completely different artist, singer, musician, producer. That kind of growth, that change and evolution is necessary, that\u2019s us being human.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though she\u2019s bringing a modern twist to modern fans, Swift finds most inspiration in classics, but sees clear value in understanding and analyzing what\u2019s popular today, and why.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now I\u2019m on this kick from being super influenced by baroque music, and that\u2019s feeding its way into my music, jazz and rock,\u201d Swift said. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s important, especially for musicians who are in a field that\u2019s pretty niche, to listen to things today, objectively \u2026 listening to the things we don\u2019t like is a good exercise, and actually gives us different ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJe Veux Vivre,\u201d an aria she arranged for her 2023 album, is among the tracks she\u2019ll perform in Phoenix, and is one she\u2019s particularly excited to do with the talented band behind her. She and the Django group performed first together over ten years ago at Birdland in New York, and now they tour together until December, when Swift heads to Chris Botti and Blue Note New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s a jazz show or a rock show or whatever \u2026 I can\u2019t listen to music sitting down. That\u2019s my one gripe about playing places with chairs,\u201d Swift said. \u201cI really want the music to lift people up to the point of lifting them out of their chairs, because this music is so danceable, too.<\/p>\n

The Django Festival Allstars and Veronica Swift will perform two shows, at 7 and 9 p.m., on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix. Tickets can be purchased here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazz vocalist Veronica Swift. TBA Agency \u201cIf you\u2019re going to do anything in this world, especially as an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":378460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,132130,1589,132131,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-378459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-concert-previews","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-touring-artists","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115548445194381955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}