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Vickie Smith Special Performances |
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Vickie Smith Special Performances |
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 Swingin' through the heat at an afternoon concert at Eisenhower Park, NY. Hot music, hot weather and a cool audience! |
 Time for fun at a recent performance in Teaneck with Ron Naspo (bass) and Tomoko Ohno (piano) |
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Having fun at the Two Rivers Theater for Red Bank First Night 2006 festivities- sponsored by the Jersey Shore Jazz & Blues Foundation. |
| The Vickie Smith Quartet, with special guest Giacomo Gates, filled the house at the Sonny Costanzo Concert Series at Quinnipiac University. The show was a fast-paced tribute to the vocal side of jazz. |
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Vickie Smith Hot Seven at Sussex County Community College - a great audience of faculty, students and surrounding community members, all swingin with the beat! |
 Vickie Smith with Larry Puentes |
"Your tribute, Satin Dolls, with the HOT Seven was superb. I've already received calls from people wondering when you're coming back." - Wendy Fullem, Cultural Affairs/Assistant to the President, Sussex County Community College |
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Berkeley College welcomed the Vickie Smith Quintet with
Larry Puentes on sax and clarinet for the debut performance of
Voices of
Jazz - an exciting new show
in tribute to the history of vocal jazz stylings.
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Vickie Smith sharing a song Who knew Lady Liberty was a big fan of the great swing music of the 40's?!! |
The festival, held on the waterfront was great fun - the audience sang along and the next generation of Swing Lovers were moving to the rhythms.
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 SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW! Special unannounced debut appearance of the Vickie Smith Hot Seven during the Quartet's performance at the Watsessing Summer Concert.
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Vickie Smith Quartet at the Arts on the Waterfront Summer Concert in Keyport, NJ - back again for the 3rd year.
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Vickie Smith Quartet performing for the dinner dance at the Essex Fells County Club in New Jersey. |
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For their second rewarding year, the Vickie Smith Quartet performed at the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life of The Somerset Hills weekend event in Basking Ridge, NJ. Picture at right is Vickie Smith with Ralph Petti, Co-Chair of the event. |
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Vickie Smith Quartet performing at the famous Sunday Jazz Brunch at The Priory in Newark, NJ. It's always an extra kick to perform for an audience spanning all ages. From the 3 year old keeping a great beat on the table with his eating utensil set of drumsticks to the great-grandmother doing an impromptu dance - it was an afternoon to celebrate! |
| Bringing our Tribute to the Ladies of Swing to Gateway Community College in Connecticut. Students and faculty joined us in the lounge setting for an afternoon of Swing Era music followed by an impromptu after-show discussion of the music and the Ladies. |
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Rushing between gigs down in sunny Southern Florida the first week in April. Met some real swingin' audiences with a love for the music of the Ladies of Swing. |
 Presenting our Satin Dolls - Tribute to the Ladies of Swing show at Columbia-Greene Community College, in Hudson, NY. We'll be back there in the Fall with a brand new swingin show. |
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 The Vickie Smith Quartet - Ron Naspo on bass, Rick Visone on drums, Bob de Benedette on piano (unseen) |
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Exciting show at the Walter Edge
Theater at Atlantic Cape
Community College on February 15th. The Audience
was filled with students both college & high school -- all music
lovers and very enthusiastic. For a while I left the
stage to more closely interact with them. Their response was
very gratifying - they asked specific questions about
the music (my quartet was performing one of our tribute
shows to the Ladies of Swing and included the great
Duke Ellington and his performances with Ella Fitzgerald).
Many of them were music students and we talked about
techniques, style, the music itself and the performers.
These are the generations that will keep this music alive! "Your performance was awesome. We can't thank you enough for entertaining the students from our college and our community High Schools. The interaction with the audience was truly informative and exciting. " Aline Bennett & Lisa Givens, Student Development at Atlantic Cape Community College |
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Stockton Performing Arts Center,
Pomona, NJ - Dec. 14th concert We had the opportunity to do an encore concert at this wonderful PAC. To make the event extra special, we brought in a video production crew and taped the concert live. An excerpt of this video was shown at our Showcase at the APAP convention at the NY Hilton on January 9th. |
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Started off the Holiday Season at Neiman Marcus in White Plains, NY. Shoppers were treated to live music and holiday goodies on each lavish floor. |
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Vickie Smith Jazz Quartet at the Stockton Performing Arts Center in October, on the bill with The Mahavishnu Project and Greg Ribot. Great venue, great company. It was Stockton College's Best of the Best Jazz Series. We'll be returning December 14th for a special performance. |
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