The Bermuda School of Music's 12th annual 'Some Enchanted Evening' concert takes place on Friday.

Organisers are offering a programme in keeping with Bermuda's celebration of its 400th anniversary – 400 years of music, from the 1600s to the present day.

"We will proceed in chronological order, from early Baroque all the way to more modern music, so there will be something for everyone," Bermuda School of Music (BSM) developing coordinator Chas Arnold said.

Participating musicians and singers will include members of the BSM faculty, present and former students of the school, members of the Bermuda Philharmonic Society orchestra, and others with whom the BSM has collaborated in the past.

Giving just a hint of what is to come, Mr. Arnold revealed that Joy Barnum will sing Gershwin, BSM guitar teacher Steve Crawford will play a Vivaldi concerto, and former BSM student and 2006 Bermuda Teen Idol Ben Lusher – having returned from his music studies abroad – will be accompanied by a trio with whom he has been working in the past year. Together they will perform an interpretation of jazz classics. Kent Hayward will conduct the classical orchestra.

"It will also be the first time we get to showcase the BSM steel band," Mr. Arnold said.

In addition to ticket sales, further funds will be raised through the sale by silent auction of six paintings of violin fronts created and donated by well-known Bermuda artists Sheilagh Head, Betty Ann Trott and Sharon Wilson.

The concert will take place at 8 p.m. in the Mid-Ocean Amphitheatre of the Fairmont Southampton.

Tickets (patrons $80, adults $40, students $15) are available from the BSM, Berkeley Road, Pembroke; the Music Box; Pulp & Circumstance, upper Queen Street; and www.boxoffice.bm