Avalon Jazz Experience – 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 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, described as a mashup of the sensibilities of Ben Folds and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, invites the audience to go along for the ride with the lead melody being carried by vocalists half the time, and instruments the other half.

Since the band’s inception, the Congregation has played nonstop around the world. Select highlights include performances at Umbria Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Jazz At Lincoln Center, The White House, The Kennedy Center, Prokofiev Concert Hall in Russia, and at the Newport Jazz Festival where the group received a standing ovation.

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