Veronica Swift and Emmet Cohen Trio on June 28 at 7:30pm at the Flickinger Performing Arts Center, 1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo. Tickets are $24.75.

In the fall of 2015, Veronica Swift won second place at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition. In 2016 she was asked to perform a concert of her own at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City and she was a guest artist with Michael Feinstein at Jazz at Lincoln Center with the Tedd Firth Big Band and Marilyn Maye and Freda Payne. Veronica’s first appearance at Jazz at Lincoln Center was at age 11 when she performed at the “Women in Jazz” series at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola.

Emmet Cohen has  been awarded the prestigious 2019 Cole Porter Fellowship Award by the American Pianists Association.Cohen has also played in legendary international nightspots, such as Birdland, the Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazzhaus Montmartre, and Ronnie Scott’s. He is Hammond B-3 organist-in-residence at Harlem’s Smoke jazz club.