Join us as Lafayette returns to Natchez after 200 years!
Time and place:
Saturday, April 19, 2025
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Historic Natchez Foundation
108 S. Commerce Street
Natchez, Mississippi
The program:
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The Cast
Ben Goldman of Washington, D.C. has performed as Lafayette for almost two decades. He is Mount Vernon’s Lafayette, and has participated in numerous Farewell Tour Bicentennial events with the American Friends of Lafayette.
Brother Rogers of Brandon, Mississippi is an historian at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
Tyler Diaz—electric guitar player, music educator, and musicologist—will perform the music of Francis (Frank) Johnson. Johnson, an early African American composer and bandleader, composed a march for Lafayette’s arrival in Philadelphia in 1824. He led the first American music group to tour in Europe, which he did in 1837. Diaz will also perform music that was once sung by Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, a formerly enslaved African American from Natchez, who became an accomplished concert artist in the 1850s and was dubbed “The Black Swan.”
Chuck Schwam of Gaithersburg, Maryland is the American Friends of Lafayette’s Executive Director and the National Chair of the AFL’s Farewell Tour Bicentennial Committee.
Alan Hoffman of Londonderry, New Hampshire is President of the AFL and Editor of the Gazette of the American Friends of Lafayette.
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