WILLIAMSBURG — Bruce Hornsby & The Noise Makers will host an America’s 400th Anniversary concert in Jamestown on May 12 featuring rock, R&B and progressive bluegrass.

The concert also will feature R&B artist Chaka Khan, bluegrass master Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder.

Jamestown 2007, the state agency presenting the three-day America’s 400th Anniversary festival May 11-13, announced the headliners yesterday along with a list of other artists and scheduled performances.

Participating in the events will be retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, actor James Earl Jones and thousands of performers from across the country.

Single-day tickets for each of the three days cost $30 for adults and $15 for children ages 6 to 12. Children younger than 6 are free. Tickets also will provide admission to museum and exhibits at the historic sites.

The festival, commemorating Jamestown’s 400th anniversary as the first permanent English settlement in America, will be at Jamestown Settlement, Historic Jamestowne and a neighboring field dubbed Anniversary Park.

Some highlights of the weekend’s entertainment include separate and combined performances by the Richmond Symphony Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The performances will include the première of new works written for the commemoration.

On May 12, the headliners will follow musical performances in American Indian and South African traditions, as well as American folk and alternative country.

May 13 will conclude with a 400-piece orchestra and a 1,607-voice choir created for the commemoration.

President Bush and Queen Elizabeth II have been invited to participate. The queen has announced plans to visit Jamestown sometime in May but has not said when. The White House has not released plans about a potential presidential visit.

Andrew Petkofsky is a staff writer at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

A list of performances is available at http://www.Americas400thAnniversary.com