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FAIRBANKS — A loaded music schedule will become even more packed in the upcoming days, as the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival jams more than 20 concerts into its second week.

The concerts will offered by both visiting instructors and students who are attending the festival. One of the highlights of the festival will be at 8 p.m. tonight, when An Evening With Our Guests is held at Davis Concert Hall at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The concert will include virtually everything offered at the festival this year, packed into a single evening performance. Music and dance from a variety of genres will be included.

“It’s an unbelievable concert,” said Jo Scott, the festival founder. “You’ll see everything there.”

The week will also feature four nights of lecture and performance by Colin McAllister, a guitarist from San Diego who is attending his first festival. He’ll perform free concerts from 5-6 p.m. on Monday through Thursday at the Wood Center Lounge.

McAllister has an unusually broad repertoire — including everything from 14th century classical music to contemporary jazz — which made him a good candidate for a series of concerts, Scott said.

“It’s just sort of shameful, I thought, to just have him teach a class,” Scott said.

McAllister will offer medieval-era classical music, contemporary classical and jazz during the first three concerts. The Thursday concert will be a ragtime performance with UAF percussion professor Morris Palter, who has worked with McAllister since the late 1990s.

The concerts will also include discussion about the guitar and its role in the compositions. McAllister said many people are familiar with the instrument’s role in popular and flamenco music, but rarely see it used in other roles.

“I think people are so used to hearing the guitar in certain contexts … They’re generally not familiar with (other styles) from the guitar,” McAllister said.

There will also be a variety of other musical offerings this week, most of them free to attend. The Lunch Bites series continues each weekday from 12:10-1:15 p.m., featuring various music styles, along with chamber music, vocal master class performances, and the Festival Tundra Flutes during the day.

There will also be a nightly concert, costing $5 to $10, including The Night Fairbanks Danced, cabaret performance, jazz, world music and more. For a schedule of concerts, go to the festival Web site at www.fsaf.org.

What: Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival concerts

When: Continuing through July 27

Where: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Information: Check the festival Web site at www.fsaf.org

Contact features editor Jeff Richardson at 459-7510.