Booker T. Scruggs Ensemble performs Sunday

The Earl Miller, Sandy Sanderford Memorial Concert Series will close its 10th season with a performance by Booker T. Scruggs Ensemble on Sunday, June 4. The free concert will begin at 3 p.m. in St. Luke United Methodist Church, 3210 Social Circle.

The Booker T. Scruggs Ensemble has been together for 10 years and is known for its gospel, jazz, blues and old-school classics.

The ensemble won Best Jazz Band in the Chattanooga Times Free Press FYI Music Awards in 2009. The group’s latest CD, “At 4 Bridges,” was recorded live at the 4 Bridges Arts Festival. The album’s 10 instrumental and vocal tracks include ‘Autumn Leaves” and “Fly Me To the Moon.”

The f irst half of the ensemble’s program will include six standards of the American songbook, such as “Georgia” and “Moon River.” The second half will include six gospel/ praise hymns including “He Touched Me,” “How Great Thou Art” and “Precious Lord, Take My Hand.”

This concert is funded by a donation from Paul Sanderford and his sons, Steve and Mark, in memory of their wife and mother, Sandy Sanderford, a long- time St. Luke UMC member who sang in the church choir. The late Earl Miller was a piano teacher at Cadek Conservatory of Music and associate professor of music at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He served as choir director and organist at St. Luke UMC for 37 years.

For more information: www.stlukechatt.org.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Members of the Booker T. Scruggs Ensemble are, from left, William Price, bass; Greg Malone, drums; Nancy Westmoreland, vocals/keyboard; Booker Scruggs, saxophone.