Three professional singers have formed a new musical group called Les Chanterelles. The trio will present their first performance of Medieval and Renaissance music for three voices at 7 p.m. Friday at the Methodist church.

With tongue squarely planted in cheek, founder and Artistic Director Emi Ostrom explained the group’s name as a kind of pun on chanterelle, the Pacific Northwest mushroom, “which also sounds similar to ‘chanteur’ + ‘elles’ in French: women who sing. Of course everything also sounds more suave and self-important in la langue d’amour.”

Ostrom, whose family has deep roots on Vashon, created the group to sing the music she loves but is seldom heard: polyphonic chants, motets and old chansons written for solo-voice ensembles. This concert, she said, will preserve that intimate context with works ranging from the 12th to 16th centuries, in Old English, Old French, Latin and Catalan.

Ostrom recently moved to the region from her hometown of Columbia, Maryland. She studied oboe performance at Oberlin Conservatory and received a master’s in solo voice ensemble singing from the University of York, England. She specializes in early, as well as contemporary music and has performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan.

Many islanders know local resident Holly Boaz from her performances with Vashon Opera and Vashon Chamber Music. The breadth of her career spans opera, oratorio and chamber and choral music, with a special interest in Baroque music. This season includes engagements with Seattle Opera, Canonici Consort of Voices, Emerald Ensemble, Regency Voices, Vashon Chamber Music Series and Kirkland Choral Society. Boaz is a faculty member of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma.

Conductor, mezzo and Tacoma resident Anne Lyman teaches at Tacoma Community College and directs the Seattle Bach Choir and Sine Nomine Renaissance Choir. She is artistic director of the Tacoma-based professional early music ensemble, Canonici. She has lived and worked throughout the U.S. and in Europe, where she studied early music on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Tickets are sold at Vashon Bookshop or at MertheandMelodye.brownpapertickets.com.Youth 18 and under are free. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.