A well-known brass ensemble will perform for First Presbyterian Church’s annual Christmas program. The church will donate proceeds from a love offering taken at the concert to Zion Shelter and Kitchen, Beaufort County’s only homeless shelter.

Market Street Brass, founded in 1974 as the resident faculty brass quintet at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, will present a special Christmas concert, “Good Tidings of Great Joy,” Saturday at 7 p.m. The quintet performs music in all styles from Renaissance to jazz in a variety of settings and performs at dozens of engagements each year, including concerts, services and music for special events, according to a Market Street Brass bio. During the holidays, the group is known for performing many Christmas concerts and in church services.

Dr. Edward Bach, trumpet professor at UNC-G, serves as principal trumpet of Market Street Brass and performs over 60 concerts annually. The five-man group has made a number of recordings and has toured throughout Texas, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia and North Carolina, where some of its members are from, the bio said. It also performs overseas.

Following the concert, a love offering will be taken up with 100 percent of proceeds benefitting Zion Shelter, according to Deane Phelps, the church’s office manager. The church maintains a special music fund annually that allows it to present several free community concerts and performances each year, and for the last eight years, has hosted the ensemble during Christmas and again in Easter, said FPC Pastor Lee Kinney.

“Market Street Brass has been a favorite for years, and we are happy to have them here again this year,” Kinney said. “We’re especially happy to have our love offering benefit Zion Shelter this year.”

Kinney said the church normally supports the shelter annually through its budget, but due to a growing need, the shelter needs emergency funding to serve the area’s homeless population.

“We felt it was important to help support this important ministry that serves the homeless men in our community,” Kinney said. “Market Street Brass, led by Dr. Edward Bach, has been a welcomed tradition not only for our congregation but for the community at large. It has been a blessing to those who have come and an annual event on many people’s schedules during this time of celebration. Everyone is welcome. It will be very entertaining.”

For more information, visit marketstreetbrass.com. First Presbyterian Church is located at 211 W. Second St. in Washington.