The 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival commences with special guest soprano Lydia Brotherton from Berlin, Pacific MusicWorks Director Stephen Stubbs  on theorbo and Salish Sea Early Music Festival Director and baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan in “Lydia Brotherton: Airs of the Baroque”  on Wednesday, Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church in Eastsound.

This fifth annual 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes seven programs of 16th to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments in 54 performances in nine cities around the Salish Sea with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, Montreal, and from around the Northwest and the U.S.

Suggested donation is $15, $20 or $25; a series pass is $90 for five concerts; 18 and under enter for free.

For more information, visit www.salishseafestival.org or call the church at 376-6683.