You won’t want to miss the Opening Ceremonies for our 15th annual Lynden Music Festival held at the Jansen Art Center, also known as The J! Come and meet our Executive Director, Terhi Miikki-Broersma; our President, David Jewkes; and the Mayor of Lynden, Scott Korthuis, as they introduce to you our 2024 LMF Schedule.

This year we have a special guest who will be telling us about the Four Freshmen, Four Freshmen society board member Mark Schlichting. Mark will also be informing us about the Four Freshmen Society as many of their members will be joining us this year.

Some of our guest musicians including Dmitri Matheny Group and Folkert-Hans will be performing and refreshments will be available to purchase at the Festival Espresso at The J.

• Mayor Scott Korthuis opens the festival!

• Dmitri Matheny Group
  Michael Brockman - saxophones
  Bill Anschell - piano
  Phil Sparks - bass
  Mark Ivester - drums
  Dmitri Matheny - flugelhorn

• Folkert-Hans

• and more!

Dmitri Matheny Group - Celebrated for his warm tone, soaring lyricism and masterful technique, American musician Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation” (International Review of Music).

Born on Christmas Day, 1965 in Nashville, Tennessee, Dmitri was raised in Georgia and Arizona. Attracted to his father’s collection of jazz and classical LP records, Dmitri began piano lessons at age 5, switched to the trumpet at age 9, and took up the flugelhorn at 18.

Matheny attended the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, then the Berklee College of Music, Boston, graduating magna cum laude in 1989.

Based in Seattle, The Dmitri Matheny Group is “an all-star jazz band featuring some of the most accomplished musicians in the western United States” (All About Jazz).

Folkert-Hans - Born into a musical family in The Netherlands, Folkert-Hans Tolsma grew up listening to the music of Phil Collins, and he started playing trumpet at an early age. He has had a passion for music all of his life, and he is very much looking forward to be returning to the Lynden Music Festival again this year!

Folkert-Hans developed his musical style while playing with a Bicycle “Show Band” named Crescendo, then with Mealox, and finally with Lays and The Tailgators. He now performs with the Rintje Kas Orkestra and others, but as a solo artist he is able to perform much of his own, original repertoire throughout Holland and also abroad. **A nephew of our very own Sid Baron family.