An evening of world music will be presented by the acclaimed ensemble Trío Guadalevín at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at Open Space for Arts & Community.

The concert will feature holiday music incorporating the Feast of la Virgen de Guadalupe, Spanish cantigas de Santa Maria, and music of Hanukkah and Christmas in Latin America.

Trío Guadalevín — a trio named for the ancient gorge that slices through the Andalusian city of Ronda, Spain — was formed in 2014 when its three members began to explore the musical dialogue between Indigenous, Latin American, European and African cultures.

The ensemble takes a fresh approach to music with deep roots: from the Muslim, Sephardic Jewish and Christian melodies of medieval Spain and North Africa, to the Afro-Mexican son jarocho of Veracruz and the Zapotec songs from Oaxaca.

Their broad range of musical influences is reflected in multilingual vocal performances and instrumentation that includes guitar, oud, vihuela and the teponaztli — a wooden slit drum used by the Aztecs.

The trio includes Antonio Gómez, a Chicano-Italian percussionist whose studies have taken him across Latin America, Morocco, Spain and Italy. Abel Rocha is a Mexico City–born folklorist, singer and multi-instrumentalist known for performing the traditional music of Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Chile and Argentina.

August “Gus” Denhard is an early music specialist who performs on lute, theorbo, baroque guitar, oud and vihuela. For the past 25 years, he has served as executive director and artistic director of Early Music Seattle.

Beyond performance, Trío Guadalevín visits classrooms and libraries to share their talents and draw connections between music and world history, cultural equity and human geography. The group adapts its interactive combination of performance and education for kids K-12 and teaches in English, Spanish and bilingually.

In their Vashon performance, the trio will be joined by recorder artist Vicki Boeckman, a returning soloist for the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and a faculty member of the early music program at Cornish College of the Arts.

Get tickets for the concert — part of Open Space’s ongoing “Folklife Friday” series — and find out more at openspacevashon.com.