Dr. Joel Yelland brings American spirituals and Russian folk tunes to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Jan. 19, for the monthly series Music Live with Lunch.

He continues with Part 3 of his series called “Spirituals and Samovars” performing songs like “Ride On, King Jesus,” “Zion’s Walls,” “Polkovodits (The Commander)” and “My God Is a Rock.”

St. Luke’s choir director and pianist Lorraine Martin accompanies Yelland for the 30-minute show.

As is tradition, a hot lunch, this time beef stroganoff with rum cake, follows the show in the parish hall.

Yelland, a music major at Central Washington University, led several performances there before going to medical school in The Bronx and eventually joining the U.S. Navy for eight years. Later, he and his family of four became fixtures in the Omak music scene for 14 years before moving to Sequim in 2010.

Yelland studied voice with Linda Grubb and Anneliese von Goerken and continues to sing with the Peninsula Singers, act with Readers Theater Plus and Olympic Theatre Arts, and direct the choir at the Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. He also plays percussion with the Sequim City Band, Sequim Community Orchestra and the Port Angeles Symphony.

Yelland serves as a practicing family physician and as medical director of the Lower Elwha Health Clinic in Port Angeles.

Music Live with Lunch continues 25 years after it was founded by Lou and Bill Yandell at St. Luke’s as an outreach program to the community. Tickets cost $10 and can be purchased in advance or at the door with the church office open 9 a.m.-noon Monday-Thursday.

Call 683-4862.