Field Hall Presents: Sammy Miller & The Congregation, Music of 1973 – 50 Years Later

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*The second of two performances, this show features original music from Sammy Miller and the Congregation. Field Arts & Events Hall is excited to present Sammy Miller & The Congregation as a Crab Festival Concert. Get ready for foot-stomping dance music to wrap your Crabfest experience! Led by Grammy-nominated drummer Sammy Miller, this seven-piece band is on a mission, crisscrossing the country like a vaudevillian revival show with a fervor for music. In this performance, the band performs original music from their albums, Heading West (2014), Sammy Miller and the Congregation (2016) and their latest album, Leaving Egypt (2020) Sammy Miller and the Congregation are pulling people out of their solitary lives and putting them in the moment with a bracing dose of joyful jazz performed with infectious theatricality. The New York City-based, familial collective has captured its frenetic energy and unflinchingly optimistic songwriting on its debut album, Leaving Egypt. A native of Los Angeles, Juilliard trained-Grammy® nominated drummer Sammy Miller has been hailed as "the perfect player scholar” (The Wall Street Journal). From Lincoln Center to The White House, The Newport Jazz Festival to Umbria Jazz, with wide-ranging special guests Wynton Marsalis to Bill Irwin (Macthur Genius Winner 1984), The Congregation has brought an new perspective of jazz to a new generation of listeners. SAMMY MILLER, DRUMS + VOCALS ALPHONSO HORNE, TRUMPET BEN FLOCKS, TENOR SAX DAVID LINARD, PIANO CORBIN JONES, BASS *MOLLY MILLER, GUITAR “One of the best jazz acts I’ve seen in years” - Jazz Journal