Lovers of brass band music are eagerly anticipating the return visit of the Black Dyke Band, which presents the first of two Bermuda Festival concerts tomorrow night in the Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre of the Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel tomorrow.

So eagerly, in fact, that all tickets available at the Festival box office have been sold. However, tickets are still available from the Fairmont Southampton Princess hotel which are linked to pre-show dinner and hotel packages. Restaurants involved are the Whaler Inn, Windows on the Sound and Waterlot Inn. For further information and reservations please telephone 238-8000.

The popular group from Yorkshire, England will be under the baton of musical director and principal conductor Nicholas Childs, who began his musical career at age eight on the euphonium and went on to become one of the world's finest brass instrumentalists.

The winner of numerous competitions, he went on to earn critical acclaim as an international soloist. Also an educator, Mr. Childs has been professor of euphonium at the Royal Northern College of Music, the University of Salford, tutor for the National Youth Brass Bands of Great Britain, Wales and Switzerland, and music director of the National Youth Brass Band of Denmark. Currently he is an associate conductor of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain.

The Black Dyke Band enjoys a full concert schedule, and has made over 50 recordings, some with artists as diverse as Paul McCartney and Wings, Bermuda Festival artist Evelyn Glennie (for which it received a Grammy nomination), Peter Gabriel (for which it received an Oscar nomination), and another under the baton of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath.

Tomorrow and Saturday night's performances begin at 8.15 p.m., and are billed as being "guaranteed to lift the heart and stir the soul" with an eclectic mixture of "riveting and infectious music".