The Caisey family have come together again to help raise money for charity.

This time they are raising money for the Bermuda Autism Society.

June Caisey said musicians, singers, dancers and others involved in the production were happy to donate their time in order to give something back to the community.

Mrs. Caisey said although they do this they are still in need of sponsors, as all costs come out of their pockets and as they are not a registered charity.

She said: ?All ticket sales go to the charity. People don?t realise that we have to pay for the place where we practice and we always have a beautiful meal after the show, but the caterers, the lights and sound guys all have to be paid.

?So this is why we need sponsors so that we can help in anyway we can.?

As a family, the Caiseys have held several events to benefit charities, an ill family member and another who had planned to study in California.

A Spiritual Uplifting will be held at City Hall, beginning at 4 p.m. this Sunday.

They are promising a variety of music with a spiritual flavour.

Mrs. Caisey, who is performing a poem written by Dr. Maya Angelou, stressed that it was not going to be a gospel concert and instead had something for anyone who has a spiritual nature.

The band members include some of Bermuda?s best offerings: James Richardson, Darius Richardson, Derek Simmons, Devin Lightbourne, Mike Payne, Graham Maule.

The singers are Desta Zion, June, Phiemma, Albert, Clinton and Taur Caisey.

And the dancers are Taitu Wilson, Jevon Easton-Vanderpool and Denaye Hinds.

Mrs. Caisey said there was no intermission, but said: ?There was nothing that you will get bored with.

?The songs are never tedious and it is never of one thing. It is always changing and the concert flows.?

Caisey Family Productions co-founder Phiemma Caisey said the whole family were entertainers and each time they saw each other they were always talking about putting on a concert.

?I think it was about three years that I took the bull by the horns,? she said. ?So I tried to get all the family members who entertained together, but it didn?t work like that, it was basically my immediate family and friends that did it.

?So I just took it from there and this is our sixth show coming up and it was always a theme.?

She said she is very close friends with the band and the trombone player did not think he was going to be able to be in this show, but when she saw him he wanted to know when did the rehearsals begin.

?They do this because they enjoy it and they like to be a part of it,? said Ms Caisey.

She said the only way that she can describe the show was that it was going to be warm ? a family thing.

?We embrace all that may not even be blood related as family,? Ms Caisey said.

She said many times when organisers are announcing a gospel concert people?s antennae go up.

?These days when I turn on the radio, I am left asking the question ? what is gospel anyway,? she said.

?Many times it is like R&B or something and I think that wasn?t gospel when I was little, but only because the word has a stereotypical attachment to it and even though you could still say it is gospel, we didn?t want to label it as such.

?All the songs are spiritually based, but the type of music that we are using is not stereotypically gospel.

?We have some reggae beats, some calypso and contemporary music.?

Some of their previous shows were based around Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.

?I don?t want the audience to think that they are getting something like that,? she said. ?They were funny. This is on a more serious note than before.?

They decided that they would not hold the concerts for themselves and decided that they would use their talents to raise funds firstly for a cousin, Rodericka Pitcher, who was suffering from cancer.

They then raised money for children suffering from AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

?We try to help the charitable organisations that many people don?t know about,? she said.

?There are a lot of charities that don?t get supported like the larger ones do.?

Ms Caisey said that as soon as a concert is over they are thinking about organising the next one, but she said: ?When we are doing it we say we are not doing this anymore, but then we feel great when we have accomplished everything.?

She said they do not get together very often to practice, but the musicians are used to playing with each other.

Tickets cost $35 and are available from the City Hall Box Office on the day, at Kit ?n? Caboodle and People?s Pharmacy.