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Veronica Swift at Virginia Arts Festival at Attucks Theatre

Courtesy of Mark Robbins | Posted on August 3, 2017

Where

Attucks Theatre
Virginia Arts Festival

1010 Church St
Norfolk, VA
Map
(757) 664-6464

When

Sat, March 10, 2018
8:00 pm

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Musicians

About

This Charlottesville native grew up surrounded by music, with two world renowned jazz artists for parents: her father was the late “master of bebop piano”(LA Scene) Hod O’Brien, and her mother is singer Stephanie Nakasian, acclaimed for her “vocal virtuosity” (The New York Times). With those genes, is it any wonder Veronica was just a child when she started singing professionally? She was singing in public by age 9 and had released two CDs by age 13; as a kid she appeared at such jazz hot spots as Manhattan’s Dizzy's Club Coca Cola in Manhattan as well as major festivals. Now, having recently graduated from the University of Miami and relocated to New York, she is rapidly making a name for herself—counting among her accomplishments a place in the 2015 Thelonious Monk Competition. This star on the rise now has a weekly Saturday night residency at the prestigious Birdland Jazz Club. ...

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