JAMESTOWN Capt. John Smith has quite a beat when the Anniversary Voices sing their song.

“If there’s a passion in you that just won’t quit, you could be a modern-day John Smith” goes their refrain, accompanied by two drummers, three horn players and a keyboardist.

Their rock-influenced ode to one of the founders of Jamestown is part of a musical mix that ranges from 17th-century dance music to selections from the hit musical “Mamma Mia” on six stages scattered throughout Anniversary Park, Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne.

More than 4,000 performers are part of the weekend program, said Ross Richardson, Jamestown 2007 spokesman. Many of them are high school choir and orchestra members who will be part of tomorrow’s Orchestra of 400 and the 1607-voice choir.

Laura Bush’s high school in Midland, Texas, sent 67 members of the Robert E. Lee Rebel Orchestra for a stage show yesterday and to join the Sunday show.

“Wow, all this history. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime moment that the students will never forget,” said orchestra director Karen McAfee. “They sent us a whole stack of music to learn. We’ve been getting it ready to play.”

At Jamestown Settlement, Howard Bass on lute and John Tyson on recorder brought back the 17th century sound of the danceable allemande.

Tyson, who teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music and is music director of a Renaissance improvisational group, introduced a version of the Queen’s Allemande as it might have been heard in an Italian court.

“If you were an educated person, you were a dancer,” he said, “and the dances you were doing were from the Italian court.”

A full schedule of performances continues tomorrow.