If it's June, it must be time for the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival. The 17th annual event gets under way on Friday and runs through June 16 at various locations from Chestertown to St. Michaels.

Once again, a notable lineup of musicians and repertoire has been assembled by the festival's co-artistic directors - cellist Marcy Rosen of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The opening program offers a trio of quintets - one by Mozart for horn and strings, one by Schumann for piano and strings, and one by Barber for woodwinds. The concert is at 8 p.m. Friday at the Avalon Theatre in Easton.

The festival moves on to the Aspen Institute in Queenstown for a champagne picnic and music by Beethoven, Bartok, Poulenc and Harbison on Saturday afternoon.

Also in store as the festival proceeds: works by Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, Dvorak, Janacek, Nielsen, Martinu and Milhaud.

For more information, visit the festival's Web site: www.musicontheshore.org, or call 410-819-0380.