Talented musicians performing, creating beautiful music together, doing what they love to do. An appreciative audience engaged, interpreting and hanging on every note. That's the type of setting that Lancaster Catholic High School's Fine and Performing Arts Department will try to create at its love-themed concert on Saturday, Feb. 11. Celtic band Rizzetta's Tones will perform at 6 p.m. inside the Lancaster Catholic cafeteria.

Admission is free, but donations for Lancaster Catholic's Fine and Performing Arts Department will be accepted.

"A lot of our songs are meaningful to people," said Bill Stine, Rizzetta's Tones' organizer and founder. "We're telling stories. I want the audience to be thinking and I want them to be smiling. Sometimes we want to make people think about things they don't normally think of. The performance will be about love. That's a very big subject."

Rizzetta's Tones describes itself as a Celtic-American band, featuring a wide variety of sounds produced by an array of instruments, including the distinctive hammered dulcimer. Concert goers should expect to hear a large selection of tunes, many of which will be folk songs and some of which will be "celtified."

"We all sing lead, and we all sing background," said Stine. "It adds up to an interesting concert. We have a lot of instruments on stage. It tends to be appealing to the audience."

A pianist and a former teacher in Hempfield and Manheim Township school districts, Stine has assembled four of his former high school and middle school students - Randy Kochel, Linda Lohr, Jared McDonald and Amanda Wells - make up the band. Rizzetta's Tones has been making sweet music together for the better part of the last decade.

"I've never had a band like this that gets along so well," said Stine. "We just like each other."

"We want to thank people for supporting live music," added Stine. "With live music, there are no second chances. People should understand that live music is going to be different than studio music, and they should listen carefully to the words."

Lancaster Catholic High School is located at 650 Juliette Ave., Lancaster. For more information, contact Lancaster Catholic fine and performing arts director Tony Brill at tbrill@lchsyes.org or 717-509-0310.