Guitar fanatics won’t want to miss a unique concert featuring more than 30 musical instruments.

South Whidbey musicians Andre Feriante and Troy Chapman will take the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts stage on Nov. 8 for “Cythara 6.” The show begins at 7:30 p.m.

Cythara is an umbrella term for a range of stringed instruments of medieval and renaissance Europe. This is the sixth year Feriante and Chapman have partnered to present the selection of lesser-known instruments. Each man plans to play 18 from an array set up on the stage.

“We have fun. We’re pretty casual,” Feriante said. “There’s lot of spontaneous humor. I think last time we walked out and we pretended it was a guitar sale.”

The different guitars come from five continents spanning more than 5,000 years, according to a press release for the event.

“A lot of the Middle Eastern instruments are played in an improvised way so that’s the beauty of this style of music,” Feriante said, comparing it to jazz.

One of his personal favorites is the chitarra battente, a baroque guitar with steel strings made in the Calabria region of Italy.

“I might be the only professional guitarist playing one currently,” he said.

He’s also excited to play his replica of an 1864 Torres guitar made by a Spanish luthier.

Other instruments on display include the pipa and zhongruan of China, the tar, the oud and buzuq from the Middle East, the baroque lute and baroque guitar from Europe and the charango of South America.

Feriante wondered if he and Chapman might be breaking some kind of record for most instruments played within a single concert. The show is an interesting experience for participants — audience members might find themselves picking out the instrument on stage that they’d like to hear next.

Both men are renowned guitarists in the Pacific Northwest.

Tickets are $45 for WICA Star and $30 for Standard. Visit wicaonline.org to purchase.