For the 15th year, our annual Yuletide Baroque “Jazzin’ with the Classics” for Christmas, presented as always by Emmanuel Episcopal Church, will feature jazz pianist, flutist and clarinetist Martin Lund, classical flutist Jeffrey Cohan and bassist Paul Gabrielson in a unique and joyous celebration of music for the holidays that bridges the jazz/classical divide on Friday, Dec. 27 at 2 p.m. at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Eastsound.

Donations towards expenses will be welcome. Please call the church at 360-376-2352 or see www.candlelightnw.org for more information.

In this program, three renowned jazz and classical artists and friends meld their musical perspectives in an unusual collaboration and unique celebration of the Yuletide season that is guaranteed to generate an abundance of Christmas cheer. Lund, Cohan and Gabrielson 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 renditions of classical standards, will bring together the best of jazz and classical worlds in a new program for 2024.

Candlelight Concerts, dedicated to George Shangrow and a nonprofit in Washington state since 2011, continues a tradition that Shangrow initiated featuring chamber music both familiar and unusual performed by some of the Northwest’s finest musicians around the Puget Sound.