The Chattanooga Music Club has established a fine local tradition celebrating American independence by providing a free annual Patriotic Organ Concert at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium.
This year, it will be this Thursday at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but contributions will be accepted.
The program will feature the $2 million Austin pipe organ, which the Chattanooga Music Club restored in 2007.
Nationally famed Dr. Jeannine Jordan of Portland, Ore., will be the featured organist this year. She and her husband, David Jordan, created "From Sea to Shining Sea,'' a concert and video presentation telling the story of the pipe organ coming to America.
Well-known vocalist Delores Beery, who teaches at Lee University in Cleveland and is associate director of the Chattanooga Girls Choir and alto soloist at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain, also will be featured.
Chattanooga's Adm. Vance Fry has arranged a patriotic salute to the armed forces, with a color guard and recognition of members of the armed forces, plus veterans of the armed forces and active-duty personnel.
The program will continue a fine community tradition in our Fourth of July celebration of American independence.