The “Swift Me Away” dance party, seen here in a previous event, is headed to the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord on Feb. 10. DJ Javes (Jayme McCreary) will helm that concert experience.
A crowd in Urbana, Illinois, gets swept away by “Swift Me Away,” a Taylor Swift dance party, next headed to the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord on Feb. 10.
Let’s Sing Taylor band get a crowd going with a concert of Taylor Swift tunes. The concert pays will play t\at the Music Hall in Portsmouth at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18.
The “Swift Me Away” dance party, seen here in a previous event, is headed to the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord on Feb. 10. DJ Javes (Jayme McCreary) will helm that concert experience.
ROBERT KJEV
The “Swift Me Away” dance party, seen here in a previous event, is headed to the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord on Feb. 10. DJ Javes (Jayme McCreary) will helm that concert experience.
ROBERT KJEV
A crowd in Urbana, Illinois, gets swept away by “Swift Me Away,” a Taylor Swift dance party, next headed to the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord on Feb. 10.
Let’s Sing Taylor
Let’s Sing Taylor band get a crowd going with a concert of Taylor Swift tunes. The concert pays will play t\at the Music Hall in Portsmouth at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18.
Taylor is not in the building, but Swifties and their own besties are heading out in big numbers.
Fervent fans of the 12-time Grammy Award winner, hitmaker and touring phenom are donning friendship bracelets for all kinds of tribute shows, celebrations and film screenings across New Hampshire.
“I think she’s a beautiful storyteller overall. Her lyrics and the way she is able to portray such a wide range of emotion … I just never get tired of listening to her discography,” said Morgan Jessing, assistant brand manager for 22 & good 4 U, which is named after two Swift songs and is bringing its “Swift Me Away” dance party to the Bank of New Hampshire Stage in Concord on Saturday, Feb. 10.
The nationally touring party centers around Swift tunes spun by a DJ, who often is chosen from the community in which each show takes place.
Fans typically dress in wide-ranging Swift fashions, from cowboy boots to that dramatic teal dress and the all-black ensembles a la the “Reputation” album.
Jessing has firsthand experience with Swift’s style and energetic performances.
“I went to (her) July 22 show in Seattle and then for my 22nd birthday, I went to the Aug. 9 show in L.A. It was crazy. She announced and performed from her ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ re-release album.”
Swift is gearing up to launch the international leg of her Eras tour. Meanwhile, here in the Granite State, tickets to fan-tastic events in Swift’s honor flew out of local box offices even before the ball dropped into 2024.
Doors already have closed for The Taylor Party, a nationally touring Swift-inspired dance party that makes a stop at the Press Room in Portsmouth on Friday, Feb. 9. That party also swept through the Nashua Center for the Arts last October.
The Rex Theatre in Manchester hosted “Candlelight: A Tribute to Taylor Swift” this past November — picture a string trio surrounded by a rippling wave of lights. Then, in December, a Swiftie Dance Party shook the venue.
Now Palace Theatre Artistic Director Carl Rajotte is creating the concept for “Shake it Off! A (Taylor’s Version) Tribute,” set to take the stage May 17-18 with the Swiftie Tribute Band.
The “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film, released in October, has become the highest-grossing concert film of all time. It’s now available on streaming services including Apple TV, Google TV, Prime Video, Vudu, Xfinity and Vudu. For a big-screen experience, go to a screening at the Loew Auditorium in Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth College in Hanover at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Swift, who was featured on the cover of Time Magazine as Time’s 2023 Person of the Year, recently hit another high note, toppling Elvis Presley’s long-held career record for 67 weeks atop the Billboard 200 — she leads with 68.
In 2023 alone she took home 10 trophies at the Billboard Music Awards. That brings her total up to 39.
Her signature tunes include “We are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” “Anti-Hero,” “Shake It Off,” “Look What You Made Me Do,” “Cardigan,” “Cruel Summer” and “Is It Over Now?”
Look for those and more at the return of Let’s Sing Taylor, a live band experience, at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, at The Music Hall in Portsmouth.
