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Grammy Award winner Steve Leslie to play at ECC Arts Center Oct. 22

Grammy Award-winning songwriter and recording artist Steve Leslie performs "How Sweet It Is!" at the Elgin Community College Arts Center on Saturday, Oct. 22.

Leslie will cover classic James Taylor songs such as "You've got a Friend" and "Fire and Rain."

Leslie's professional songwriting career has spanned decades, with songs recorded by Kenny Rogers, Mark Chesnutt, George Strait, Rhonda Vincent, Neal McCoy, Ricky Skaggs, and Darius Rucker, to name a few. Leslie has also taught Jazz History at Tallahassee Community College and songwriting at Belmont University (Nashville), Middle Tennessee State University, and Berklee College of Music (Boston). His popular songwriting courses, "The Fine Art of Songwriting" and "Guitar Method & Music Theory for Songwriters," are available at indiemusicacademy.com/fas.

The concert will begin at 7 p.m. at the ECC Arts Center Building H, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.

Tickets to "How Sweet It Is!" are $35 and can be purchased on the newly redesigned ECC Arts Center website at eccartscenter.org/events/centerstage/.

The ECC Arts Center can be found on Facebook and Instagram at @eccartscenter.

If you have questions, please call the ECC Arts Center Box Office at (847) 622-0300.

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