2024 Festival of Lessons and Carols Service

Join us to celebrate the joy and mystery of Advent and Christmas with organist Vaughn Jones in a candlelight service of Advent and Christmas carols. You'll get to sing and enjoy familiar and not-so-familiar carols. This is a fun event for the entire family!

Limited Seating. Register here to reserve your spot! Suggested donation is $10 per person. Learn more about Sunset Music & Arts

Vaughn Jones, organist

Vaughn Jones is a native of St. Joseph, Missouri and a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He and his wife Gloriann live in Daly City, and have four children and seven grandchildren. Vaughn has served as organist and choir director at many Lutheran, Catholic and Episcopal churches in the Bay Area since 1974.

Sally Porter Munro, Choir Director

Sally Porter Munro (mezzo-soprano) is a native of London, England and a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England. While living in England she sang with the English National Opera, Royal Opera de la Monnaie in Brussels, and as an oratorio soloist in Europe. She also performed with the BBC Singers on radio and television. She relocated to New York City to continue her studies. Since moving to San Francisco, Ms. Munro has sung as a soloist with Pocket Opera, Berkeley Opera, North Bay Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, and Lake Tahoe Festival. Ms. Munro has performed as a soloist with the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra, the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Russian Chamber Orchestra, MasterWorks Chorale, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She is a full time member of The San Francisco Opera Chorus and has covered and sung a number of small roles. Ms. Munro teaches singing and the Alexander Technique and was a faculty member of the San Francisco Girls’ Chorus for twenty years. For four years, she has been a faculty member of The Young Women’s Choral Project.

You can read more about Sally's performance and teaching.

Host or Publisher The Episcopal Church of the Incarnation, San Francisco