Music for Lafayette: A Concert by Music Historians David and Ginger Hildebrand
6:30 PM Reception | 7:00 PM Program The Fort Ligonier Museum and Fort will be celebrating Lafayette’s Farewell Tour to the Pittsburgh area with a concert performance honoring Lafayette with period music (1793-1825) and instruments by David and Ginger Hildebrand of the Colonial Music Foundation.
Renowned music historians David and Ginger Hildebrand will perform songs, dance tunes, and marches of type that Americans would have enjoyed while remembering Lafayette 200 years ago on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary War.
The Hildebrand’s will explain and demonstrate their instruments, including the harpsichord, hammered dulcimer, violin, and Spanish & English guitars.
This is a ticketed event with a spirit & wine reception before the event.
This event is FREE to Fort Ligonier Association members if pre-registered before May 26, 2025. The cost for non-association members who pre-register before May 26, 2025, is $30 per person.
The cost for Fort Ligonier Association members at the door will be $30 per person. The cost for non-association members at the door will be $45 per person.
Come early to tour the French & Indian Museum.
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Fort Ligonier is Western Pennsylvania’s premiere museum on the French & Indian War. With detailed displays of Braddock’s defect by the French and their native American allies on July 9, 1755 nearby present-day Pittsburgh. On his farewell tour, Lafayette spent the night and walked the battlefield of Braddock’s defeat on May 28-29, 1825. On Friday, May 30, 2025, our 67-year- old Lafayette actor will meet his future mentor, the 23-year-old George Washington on Braddock’s Battlefield. This is a must-see museum on the Lafayette Farewell Tour in Western Pennsylvania.
On display at the museum are the saddle pistols that Lafayette presented to George Washington at Mount Vernon in1783 floating in mid-air in the display case. During Lafayette’s Farewell Tour to visit Andrew Jackson he recognized these were the same pistols now in his possession. These pistols remain a symbol of friendship Lafayette and Washington shared with each other, who, though so different in age and background, both possessed a mutual love of liberty.
