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Covelli and Friends will perform a concert dubbed "A Different Drummer" at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Schorr Family Firehouse Stage in Johnson City.

Maestro John Covelli — retired conductor of the Binghamton Philharmonic — will be at the piano. Joining him is steelpannist Liam Teague, performing some of his own compositions as well as "Tico Tico no Fubá" by Zequinha de Abreu.

Together, Teague and Covelli will perform, among other selections, Paganini's "Moto Perpetuo Op. 11," and Covelli will conclude the concert with Gershwin's "Sleepless Night" and "Rhapsody in Blue."

Covelli, a piano prodigy, has performed for audiences since age 4 and played with at the Chicago Music Festival with the Chicago Symphony at age 9. While conductor and soloist of the famed Seventh Army Symphony, he was a musical ambassador touring solo throughout Europe.

Hailed as the "Paganini of the Steelpan," Teague serves as the head of steelpan studies and associate professor of music at Northern Illinois University. Along with Clifford Alexis, he co-directs the NIU Steelband.

He has received awards in his homeland of Trinidad and Tobago and won a number of notable competitions, such as the Trinidad and Tobago National Steelband Festival Solo Championship and the St. Louis Symphony Volunteers Association Young Artiste Competition. He has performed with many diverse ensembles worldwide.

He is steelband director at Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Door County, Wis., and he has also taught and performed at the California State University Summer Arts Camp and the Interlochen Academy for the Performing Arts. He also has served as musical arranger of the TCL Group Skiffle Bunch Steel Orchestra and Starlift Steel Orchestra for Panorama, the most prestigious steelband competition in the world.

Tickets for Sunday's concert are $25 for adults or $20 for seniors and students; purchase online at www.goodwilltheatre.net or by calling the 772-2404, ext. 301. The Schorr Family Firehouse Stage is located at 48 Willow St. in Johnson City.