CANTON — St. Lawrence University’s Chaplain’s Office will present its eighth-annual Bach Marathon from 1:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 31, in Gunnison Memorial Chapel.

The event is free and open to the public, and guests are welcome to come and go as they please.

The event will celebrate the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach and Johann Christoph Bach.

The concert will feature the talents of St. Lawrence University’s organist and musician-in-residence Sondra Goldsmith Proctor playing the 1926 Estey Pipe Organ as well as musicians from SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music, Organist Rebecca MacKellar from Trinity Episcopal Church in Potsdam, and several other invited guest.

St. Lawrence sophomore Abigail Evans will play the violin on several pieces, while associate professor of philosophy Laura Rediehs will perform a flute selection and Julia Pomainville, arts programming coordinator and adjunct faculty of music, will sing mezzo-soprano.

“The Johann Sebastiain Bach and Sons Marathon is amazing this year,” Goldsmith Proctor said. “The community members from around the region have been rehearsing for months for this event. I’m thrilled with what is happening.”

Parking for chapel events will be in H-Lot, across from Griffiths Arts Center and next to Vilas Hall. There also will be a drop-off location and limited handicapped parking spaces in front of Richardson Hall and at the front of the chapel. Visit www.stlawu.edu/music/venues-and-parking-location-handicapped-access.

For more information, contact 315-229-5630 or chapel@stlawu.edu.