Emmanuel Episcopal Parish and Music at Emmanuel presents the seventh Yuletide Baroque and Beyond, subtitled for the second year in a row Jazzin’ with the Classics for Christmas, with soprano Linda Tsatsanis, jazz flutist, clarinetist and pianist Martin Lund and classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan on Friday, Dec. 27 at 4 p.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Parish in Eastsound. This completely new program follows last year’s popular premiere. Call 376-2352 for more information. Admission is free, and donations will be gratefully accepted.

These three renowned classical and jazz artists and friends meld their musical perspectives in an unusual collaboration and a unique celebration of the Yuletide season that is guaranteed to generate an abundance of Christmas cheer, say organizers.

Tsatsanis, Lund and Cohan will team up to bridge contemporary improvisational jazz and the “art music” of baroque and renaissance times. Instrumental musicians have “jazzed up” melodies familiar to them in the style of their day for centuries, and this team’s virtuoso improvisations on Yuletide favorites and their unique renditions of classical standards such as arias from Handel’s Messiah will bring together the best of jazz and classical worlds.

Hailed as “ravishing” (New York Times) and possessing “sheer vocal proficiency, a bright, flexible voice, big but controlled, shaded with plentiful color” (Boston Globe), Canadian soprano Linda Tsatsanis enjoys an active and diverse career.

Lund, one of the most diverse musicians in the universe, has played with some of the great blues artists of our time and worked in the studios of Los Angeles as a composer, arranger and musician with artists like Mel Torme to Isacc Hayes.

Flutist Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries, both on modern and early transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. The winner of many important competitions and awards, he has performed throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.