Overseas performers will join Jamaican youth performers for the two-day series, An Evening of the Classics, scheduled for Montego Bay and Kingston this weekend.

Founder and director of Jamaica Early Childhood Development Foundation (JECDF), Lorna Golding, wife of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, said that in Child Month it is appropriate to include youth in the programme so that more lovers of classical music can appreciate the high standard of their achievements.

Local artistes

The Harrison Memorial High School, saxophonist Garfield Lawrence, students of Sibyl's Music Studio, the Montego Bay Infant School and Montego Bay High School are due to perform in Montego Bay tomorrow. Popular Montego Bay tenor, Rory Frankson, will lead the national anthem at the start of that show. The celebrated University Singers, the Alpha Boys Band, Aaron Lawrence and Ellinor D'Melon, are among the local artistes who will perform for the Kingston show on Sunday.

This is the second fund-raising concert of the JECDF and is being presented under the patronage of Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Mrs Golding. Proceeds of this show will go towards upgrading more basic schools and nurseries to the standards set by the Ministry of Education.

International performers for the concerts are soloist Mihae Lee, who is back by popular demand, violinist Kathy Meng Robinson and founder of the Miami String Quartet, cellist Keith Robinson, and French horn player, William Purvis.