Plans for the concert include performance of all the selections on the Academic Decathlon CD. Also included will be several additional performance selections related to the study material. The featured performing group is the Americus Brass Band. They will be in costume, with singers and narrators who will be doing commentary and reading letters from the period.

 Also featured is Jason Theiste. Theiste is a nationally-celebrated fiddle champion known for sizzling solo work with the country-rock band The Smokin’ Armadillos. His fiddle work spans musical styles from Mozart through 19th-century fiddle tunes and contemporary jazz. Theiste will lead a group presenting "Jim-Along Josie" and "Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd."

Also performing at the concert is Aaron Nigel Smith. Smith brings broadly innovative musical experience in the performance of vocal music and dance. Trained at the Manhattan School of Music, his performance profile includes featured soloist with the renowned Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers. Together with his wife Diedre, he developed a curriculum for music and movement that has inspired thousands of young people in Southern California. He will perform "Live Humble" and "Ain’t I Right."

Lunch and a lecture will follow the concert.