By Mark Wineka

mark.wineka@salisburypost.com

Several top-notch local piano teachers and students will converge on the seven pianos along a four-block stretch of North and South Main streets Saturday to tickle the ivories in a special public performance.

The time will be 3 p.m. Saturday, and the program includes the following:

• Diane Freeman with students at Maia’s Fashions, 103 S. Main St.

• Hannah Case with students at the Meroney Theatre, 213 S. Main St.

• Alden Wright, Carson High School junior and recent runner-up in the D.C. chapter of the American Guild of Organists/Franciscan Monastery Young Organists Scholarship Competition, at the old Empire Hotel, 226 S. Main St.

• Jacob Kluttz, East Rowan High School sophomore and self-taught son of one of the Kluttz Piano brothers, at Creative Teaching Aids, 310 S. Main St.

• Quson Brown & Tarik Woods, self-taught Salisbury High School juniors and concert band members at Textile Products, at 119-121 N. Main St.

• Dr. W. Dwayne Robertson, known as “Dr. Rob,” who has performed concerts in 12 states as well as venues such as the Biltmore House and the Governor’s Mansion, at the Salisbury Wine Shop, 106 S. Main St., playing a variety of music from Elton John and Disney to ragtime, jazz, and classical.

• At 5 p.m. Steven Thweatt, an award-winning pianist in college who’s gone on to entertain in person and on television, will wander from piano to piano with several of his students playing the likes of Rondo by Mozart, Adagio by Beethoven, The Little Shepherd by Debussy, some original compositions and a couple of blues numbers, starting at Textile Products at 119-121 N. Main St. and heading south.

These downtown pianos have been artistically decorated by the art students at Rowan County’s seven high schools. They were unveiled on First Friday, May 1, and will remain on the street for five months, through Sept. 30, for anyone to play anything anytime.