WINCHENDON – Starting this weekend, Winchendon Winds will hold the first of three concerts to mark the group’s 10th anniversary.

This year, the ensemble will perform on three consecutive Sundays – June 15, 22 and 29. Each performance begins at 2 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Winchendon, 126  Central St.

Conductor Dr. Lindsay Bronnenkant, of the UMass/Amherst music faculty, will return to the podium after her debut last season. She has created a lineup of popular songs to mark 10 years of music-making by the ensemble.

The first concert on Father’s Day, June 15, is titled “Heroes.” Selections will include themes for the military, James Bond, the Lone Ranger and the “common man,” among others.

On Sunday, June 22 Winchendon Winds goes on “Holiday” as they “visit” the south, Europe, Scotland and the Arabian desert.

For the season’s final concert on Sunday, June 29, they will “pull out all the stops,” said Jill Sackett, daughter of Winchendon Winds founder Dr. Jon Nicholson, with a concert featuring the church’s 1868 pipe organ. International pipe organist Peter Krasinski will perform with the band on “King of Cups” (an original work by Dr. Lindsay Bronnenkant), “Phantom of the Opera,” and the finale to Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Symphony No. 3.”

Winchendon Winds Vice President Inanna Arthen notes this will be “a melding of musical sounds that may have never been heard in Winchendon before.”

In 2015, local music educator and musician Dr. Jon Nicholson decided to put his knowledge and skills to work by forming a new wind ensemble to benefit music lovers in the area. He had just retired from his last regular conducting job and hand-picked musicians who would play his favorite repertoire on a seasonal schedule.

Nicholson died in October 2015 after overseeing the inaugural season of the ensemble he had created. Upon his passing, his daughters, Sackett and Arthen, took over the management of the organization and have developed it into a finely-tuned and respected ensemble.

Refreshments for each of the three concerts will be sold on the church lawn.

Concerts are free, due to grants and donations, including funding from the Athol Cultural Council. Other sponsors include the Robinson Broadhurst Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the cultural councils of Ashburnham, Ashby, Gardner, Hubbardston, Lunenburg, Phillipston, Templeton, and Winchendon, Brooks Automotive Service, By Light Unseen Media LLC, C&S Pizza, and Our Neighbor’s Kitchen.

Greg Vine can be reached at gvineadn@gmail.com.