Student musicians and top local bands will put on a six-hour concert Friday to benefit the Food Bank of Western New York.

The event, called “tunes4food,” will begin at 3 p.m. in the concourse of Walden Galleria, near the Apple store at the north end of the mall.

Cash and nonperishable food donations will be accepted, and compact discs will be sold, with all proceeds going to the Food Bank.

Doug Yeomans, the Joyce Wilson Nixon Band, Lenny Revell and other entertainers will be joined onstage by high school musicians from Buffalo, Lockport, Lewiston-Porter and Holland.

Musicians from Villa Maria College and Houghton College also will participate.

The event will be coordinated by the Student Voices organization and is a follow- up to a 25-hour tunes4food music marathon held at Niagara Square in June, also benefiting the Food Bank.

“Our need is up 20 percent from last year, and we can use any assistance to help us feed the hungry in our community,” said Marylou Borowiak, president and chief executive officer of the Food Bank.

Details are available at

www.tunes4food.org

.