Various individuals and groups will come together on one night to play many styles of music all through one similar instrument. All Styles Night will be the fourth installment in Southeastern’s Guitar Festival and will showcase musicians performing their own unique style on the guitar.
Scheduled for April 7 at 7:30 p.m, All Styles Night will be held under the stars at Pottle Performance Circle. The night is meant to showcase the different guitar styles through a relaxing environment and will feature solo artist as well as groups performing jazz, classical, folk, bluegrass, classical and electric guitars.
“Every year what’s unique is we do the All Styles Night,  and that’s where community members, students who are not music majors and faculty members who aren’t music faculty play,” said Patrick Kerber, guitar instructor and festival coordinator. “It’s for the students. For them to be exposed to different types of professionalism and guitar that’s more than just the rock n’ roll.”  
All Styles Night will not only include guitar but banjo, singers and more.  The outdoor atmosphere and the feature of non-professional musicians will add to the relaxed style of the night.
“All of the other performances are very formal. The All Styles Night is very relaxed,” said Kerber. “It’s all styles of music. We have jazz. We have classical. We’ll have bluegrass and people doing original folk type music and classical music is played as well. It’s all styles.”
All Styles Night was open to anyone to perform. Auditions were held by Kerber who then chose the performers.
“In terms of the auditions through me there has to be something unique about it,” said Kerber. “I don’t want someone to just come up and just strum chords. I want something different, something that’s not the average or what you’d hear on the radio.”
Some featured artists for the All Styles Night include The Telegraph Salesman, a band comprised of students who have recently performed at The Ghost Light concert venue, Jody Mayuex, a guitar teacher in Denham Springs who play styles including jazz and bluegrass and Clint Rushing, who graduated from Southeastern and now works in the horticultural department.
“[Rushing] plays fantastic bluegrass guitar,” said Kerber.
In case of inclement weather, All Styles Night will be moved to Pottle Recital Hall
The Southeastern Guitar Ensemble will close the Guitar Festival on April 14 playing baroque to contemporary guitar.  The closing performance will occur at 7:30 p.m. in Pottle Auditorium.
“We do this every year, this is the fifteenth year and basically the idea is to bring guitar music to the campus and the community that ordinarily doesn’t exist in the popular place,” said Kerber.