The Music Building’s Concert Hall will be awash with exotic music from many cultures this weekend.

Audience members will savor musical pieces from China, Indonesia and Latin America at the bi-annual fall World Music Concert, which will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday.

“It’s probably going to be very visually stimulating,” senior music major Andrea Sather said.

Performers will dress in clothing from their music’s cultures, she said.

Music professor Kuo-Huang Han said instruments will include Czechoslovakian bagpipes, Indonesian gongs called gamelans and bamboo shakers called angklungs. Han will direct the gamelan ensembles made up of students from his world music class.

“[The gamelan ensembles are] probably the most popular Asian ensemble in the world,” Han said.

“Han always has very good shows and good concerts,” assistant music professor Orlando Cotto said.

Cotto will direct NIU’s Latin jazz ensemble. He said instruments in the ensemble include bongos, timbales, tumbadoras, a vibraphone trumpet and a piano.

Other ensembles include the Chinese Big Drum Group from Chicago, the Southeast Asian Angklung Group and the NIU Tabla Ensemble and Jazz Combo.

A portion of the concert is dedicated to music graduate Heather Aichele, who died in October of heart failure. NIU graduate Susan Tarson will give a brief speech, accompanied by NIU graduate Chamni Sripraram on the Thai pin lute.

Han said the concert likely will end with the audience dancing.

“It’s very interactive,” Sather said.

The concert likely will last about two-and-a-half hours and is free and open to all.

NIU’s Latin jazz ensemble will perform a separate concert at 3 p.m. Sunday on Dec. 1 at the Music Building.