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Legendary British vocal group The Swingles are set to open the 20th jubilee of the Yerevan Perspectives International Music Festival on 29 April at Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall, the festival’s press service told Panorama.am. 

The group will perform under the program Look Back (ForWard), which is a retrospective look at the 50 years of glorious musical path of The Swingles. The concert program features songs of the 60s and 70s, modern British hits, The Beatles, Bach, Simon and Garfunkel, and others. The repertoire of the groups includes world classic, jazz, ethnic and modern music of all times and nations.

Formed by Ward Swingle in Paris in 1962, the Swingle Singers were comprised of French session artists who joined to perform jazz vocals. Their renditions of J.S. Bach fugues and "The Well-Tempered Clavier" as vocals, "Jazz Sébastien Bach" (released in the U.S. as "Bach's Greatest Hits"), won a Grammy for Best Performance by a Chorus," and also won the group Best New Artist.

In the early 1970s the singers disbanded, but Ward Swingle re-formed the group in England with a new cast. Over the past half-century The Swingles' various iterations have released more than 50 recordings and won five Grammys. The group also curates the London A Cappella Festival.