NATCHEZ — It will sound like May already Saturday night at The Columns of Natchez.

The Natchez Opera Guild is hosting three favorites from the annual Natchez Festival of Music that takes place each year in May.

Will Earl Spanheimer and Kimberly Bentley will give vocal concerts, and Donna Schaffer will accompany on the piano.

The concert is at 7 p.m. Saturday at The Columns of Natchez on Main Street.

The opera guild is a major fundraising organization of the music festival, and the money raised at Saturday’s event will go directly to benefit the music festival.

“It all goes into the same pot,” opera guild secretary Sharon Baughman said. “It enables us to continue with the festival and bring the artists here from New York that are so popular and also bring in new artists that are coming up.

“It helps us to keep moving.”

Cabaret attendees are in for a treat because, according to Baughman, the performers are top notch.

“They have been here numerous times and are two of our favorites,” she said. “If you are a music lover, you don’t want to miss this.”

Bentley is a soprano and has performed in prestigious singing competitions such as the The Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions.

“Kimberly sings like an angel,” Baughman said. “It is a pure pleasure to watch her sing.

Spanheimer is a bass-baritone who performed in the Puccini Festival in Lucca, Italy.

Performing along with Spanheimer, Bentley and Schaffer will be Samuel Hendricks and Shana Braxton. Both singers are 2008 graduates of Alcorn State University, and both were students of David Blackburn.

Tickets for the concert are now on sale through Natchez Pilgrimage Tours, and can be reserved online at www.natchezpilgrimage.com or by calling 601-446-6631 or 1-8000-647-6742. Advance tickets are $20 each, $15 for opera guild members.

Baughman said if any tickets remain they will be for sale at the door for $25 each. But she doesn’t expect too many tickets to be available on the night of the event.

“I’m not sure how many tickets have already been sold, but we’ve had a very good response,” she said. “Tickets are selling well, and imagine we will have a capacity crowd, which is 200.”