FARMINGTON — The South Strong Road Crew and Friends will present an evening of New Orleans style traditional jazz at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at the North Church Arts Center.

The Crew — Sherry Walrath on vocals, Doug Walrath on keyboard, Andy Buckland on bass and Scott Dixon on drums — will welcome guests Mel Tukey on trumpet, Dick Poland on trombone and Jerry Addicott on banjo.

In addition to his own group, the Clam Flat Five, Tukey has played with jazz bands throughout Maine. Poland is a native of Livermore Falls who has played his sweet trombone with jazz groups from Maine to Florida. And Addicott played his tenor banjo for many years with the Buck Creek Jazz Band out of Washington, D.C.

Buckland teaches and plays a wide variety of music — from Celtic to Jazz throughout Maine. Dixon, who grew up on the South Strong Road, began playing drums as a student at Mt. Abram High School.

Sherry Walrath began singing in clubs in Detroit and Chicago when she was in high school. Doug Walrath started playing jazz piano with local jazz groups while he was a student at Rutgers University.

The South Strong Road Crew has roots that stretch back 30 years in Strong. In the 1990s the late Boyd Richards joined with Doug and Sherry Walrath to bring jazz musicians together at their farm to play traditional jazz. Musicians from all over Maine gather every summer to play jazz just for the fun of playing it.

“We never know for sure who will join us until the day we get together,” Doug Walrath said. “But no matter who comes it works because we all have played the old standards for many years — some of us for more than 60 years!”

Tickets are $15 and may be reserved by calling 207-778-2006.

The North Church is at 126 High St.