RANGELEY — Vocal group Northfield will bring the sounds of the season to listeners at two concerts on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15-16.

Northfield will perform songs of nature and love, alternating with traditional Christmas carols and motets, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Main Street. Familiar music will be combined with more unusual pieces.

The music program will be repeated at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on High Street in Wilton. Admission to both concerts is by donation.

Northfield is a group of eleven friends who get together regularly to sing music that moves them. The ensemble is known for its mix of Renaissance, Early American and contemporary a cappella singing, with a good dose of humor thrown in.

Highlights of this year’s seasonal program are madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi, a contemporary choral song celebrating trees, two love songs in Spanish and a hymn by one of the founding fathers of Farmington, Supply Belcher.

There will also be two different settings of the same Latin text “Hodie Christus natus est” (Today Christ is born). One, by Italian composer Marenzio, is light and festive; the other, by English composer William Byrd, is more meditative and introspective yet concludes with a wonderful “Alleluia.”

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