Veronika Jackson at Notes

Veronika Jackson is an acoustic folk artist with the flavor of blues which is rare and unique in the acoustic folk-blues arena. Her songs are like storytelling.

Jackson started her music career at an early age, singing in the school choirs at the age of ten. She was raised with a musically influenced family in St. Petersburg, Florida. In her teens her love for acoustic folk and R&B music grew as she followed such artist as Odetta, Dolly Parton, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Joan Baez, Ella Fitzgerald, and later, Diamond Teeth Mary, a blues performer who inspired many folk artists through her performances at the Florida Folk Festival.

Jackson has taken the acoustic folk guitar and the history of her culture as an African-American woman and has generated her own original, authentic and exciting style of music. She is a rare and unique performer. Her smooth and strong interpretive vocals are very expressive. Her clear, simple rhythmic clean way of piedmont blues-style guitar picking compliments her performances. She has been told that her music says something, it educates and also inspires.