DAPHNE, Ala. — This month, sweet sounds of jazz, rock and rhythm and blues are heading to the Jubilee City.

Six bands will fill the Daphne Civic Complex Plaza for Music Under the Stars, set for April 18–20 from 6 to 9 p.m. Admission is free.

Friday will feature Best Left Unsaid and Hamelin; Saturday, Flite Time and Luther Kent and Trick Bag; and Sunday, The Jazz Guardians and The Joe Occhipinti Band.

Best Left Unsaid

Best Left Unsaid, from Biloxi, Miss., will perform at 6 p.m. Lead singer and guitarist, Dustin Kahlil; base guitarist, Charlie Brown; and drummer, James “Tut” Gill formed the band in 2002.

The group’s influences include The Beatles, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.

It will be their first performance at Music Under the Stars, though they’ve played at a Mobile venue: The Garage. The band also has performed at The Celtic in Pascagoula, Miss., and The Howlin Wolf in New Orleans.

“(We’ve also) played in Atlanta, New York and Houston,” Gill said.

Best Left Unsaid will perform their songs “The Texan,” “Halfway There,” “Snow White Chocolate Man,” “Down on Sunday,” “Ned Killed Terry” and “Kurplunkicity.”

“We’re an original band,” Gill said. “We don’t play any covers.”

Hamelin

Hamelin, a four-member rock band from Mobile, includes Ross Newell, 25, lead vocalist; Adam Lynn, 26, base guitarist and back-up vocalist; Garrett Thornton, 25, lead guitarist, mandolinist and pianist; and Jonathan Brown, 25, drummer.

Hamelin cited Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Incubus and Coldplay as their influences. This will be the group’s first performance at Music Under the Stars; the band has played at BayFest in Mobile for the past three years and at SpringFest in Pensacola, Fla. The musicians have also performed at conferences in Atlanta and Pennsylvania.

Hamelin plans to play some original songs from their new CD, including “Home” and “Gonads.”

The music will have a “good feel. You can hang out and have a good time with it,” Lynn said. “We’re going to try to shake things up a little bit and have a good time.”

Luther Kent & Trick Bag

Luther Kent — a New Orleans blues singer and the group’s lead vocalist — teamed up with Trick Bag — a “blue-eyed soul band” — in the 1970s.

Trick Bag has 11 members with six horn players — three trumpets, two saxophones and one trombone. The brass section fluctuates in members, but steady performers are Bruce Elsensohn, pianist; Allyn Robinson, drummer; Jay Griggs, base guitarist; plus Kent and a new, young guitarist.

The band’s influences include B.B. King and Ray Charles.

The group plays many gigs in Louisiana including the Taste of the Senate cook-off in Baton Rouge, La. On April 19, they will play some oldies along with original pieces.

Favorites will include: “Do You Know What it Means, Miss New Orleans?” “Georgia on My Mind,” “That Did it Baby,” “When the Saints Go Marching in” and “What a Wonderful World.”

Some original works will be “Killer Joe” and “Laissez les bons temps rouler.”

Elsensohn explained that the group’s name describes the style.

“The name Trick Bag means a spot where no matter what choice you make — you lose,” he said of the blues feeling of the band.

He said of the coming performance, “You’ll recognize stuff. There’ll be some fast tempo blues and some sultry ballads.”

The Jazz Guardians, The Joe Occhipinti Band and Flite Time didn’t return phone calls by press time but Megan Matrone, recreation programs coordinator, said Flite Time was recommended by Luther Kent & Trick Bag. Members are from Gulf Port, Miss.; Biloxi, Miss.; and New Orleans.

“They’re going to fit really well with the Luther Kent feel,” Matrone said.

The Joe Occhipinti Band is from Pensacola, Fla. Occhipinti has a big-band style and they often play in the Pensacola area.

“He’s bringing dancers, so we hope to get people up and out of their seats,” she said.

The Jazz Guardians, of Fort McPherson, Ga., comprise an 18-member group lead by Sgt. Maj. Joseph Camarda.

“They’re usually a big hit,” Matrone said.

She seemed excited about the sophomore year since the popular event has expanded.

“This is your second year doing the three nights. We really hope that we bring a crowd. It’s really nice for us to do a free community event that has great bands and quality music,” she said.