Sammy Miller and The Congregation are on a mission, crisscrossing the country like a vaudevillian revival show with evangelic fervor for music. The seven-piece band is 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.

Sammy Miller and The Congregation

Monterey County Fairgrounds

Sammy Miller and The Congregation are on a mission. This six-piece band of superstar, conservatory-trained musicians finds the wonder in bringing people together with joyful jazz .

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UCLA Nimoy Theater

Laissez les bon temps rouler! Let the good times roll.!

Join Event Chair Julia Marreel and Chandler Cultural Foundation’s Board of Directors for this year’s Center Stage fundraising event. Move from the seats in the audience to being in the spotlight with a seat on the Steena Murray Mainstage.

10th Annual Center Stage Fundraising Event

Chandler Center for the Arts

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 celebrates nineteen hundred and seventy-three. From getting it on with Marvin Gaye to the yellow brick road with Elton John, it was a year filled with such fabulous music that they feel it should be spelled out in full! That year also brought us Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and a long list that goes on and on. Join Sammy Miller and the Congregation for their fresh take on these classics...fifty years later. Are you ready to get it on?

They're So Vain: Sammy Miller and The Congregation

Sammy Miller and the Congregation are on a mission, crisscrossing the country like a vaudevillian revival show with evangelic fervor for music. The seven-piece band, described as a mashup of Ben Folds Five and Preservation Hall Jazz Band, is putting people 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. “We want to get people back in a room together,” Sammy Miller says. “I love the idea of being unhinged, sincere, vulnerable, and breaking down walls through humor. Music is an uplifting gift, and I want to be generous in sharing it with people.”

Sammy Miller and the Congregation

Vanderhoef Studio Theatre

The seven-piece band is 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).

Sammy Miller and the Congregation

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Sammy Miller and The Congregation

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Sammy Miller and The Congregation

Sammy Miller and the Congregation