Brunch: Holiday Swing with Svetlana

Give it to fiery and charming Svetlana ("Breakfast at Tiffany's meets Some Like it Hot" - LucidCulture) and her exuberant New York Collective to put a smile on your face this holiday season!  The band is back on Blue Note stage for their first live audience appearance since lock-down with a special holiday program!   "Prepare to swing and be moved!" (JazzLives) as Svetlana delivers her distinct brand of the "sweet and naughty" (JazzLives) holiday magic in this special New York Holiday Swing show featuring the beloved holiday classics as well as charismatic "feel good" originals by Svetlana and jazz arrangements of cheer-inducing modern pop and rock standards - "sophisti-pop, exuberant, foot-stomping music combining swing and pop-singer/songwriter sensibilities'' (WPIX11TV).   Experience Svetlana's "energetic" vocals (Wall Street Journal), the excitement and intoxicating power of her "little big band" (TimeOutNY) - and feel your pulse quicken and your heart thaw out from the winter blues! 

 

ABOUT SVETLANA

Russian by birth - American by music, Svetlana is an "erudite, purist torchy jazz chanteuse" (Lucid Culture), that leads her "subtle, compelling, eclectic jazz combos" (NY Music Daily) playing music that is firmly based in the jazz tradition but is also for "here and now" (New York Music Daily).   Svetlana is a New York-based acclaimed chart-topping vocalist, composer, band leader, and educator. She is a recipient of a grant from Jazz Road/South Arts funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from Andrew Mellon Foundation and a Finalist of the Paul Carr's 2019 Discovery Act Competition.  Svetlana's last album, Night at the Movies, debuted #1 on the US BIllboard Traditional Jazz Charts. Svetlana and the band has headlined sold-out shows in premier venues and festivals across the US and abroad