Lafayette Farewell Tour Concert
Fort Ligonier Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 29, 2025

The Fort Ligonier Museum and Fort will be celebrating Lafayette’s Farewell Tour to the Pittsburgh area with a Lafayette Concert with Lafayette period music 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 like what Americans would have enjoyed while remembering Lafayette 200 years ago on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary War.

The Hildebrands 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.

Fort Ligonier is Western Pennsylvania’s premier 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, near 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 in 1783 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 possessed a mutual love of liberty.

Date: Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Address: Fort Ligonier, 200 South Market St., Ligonier PA 15658
Museum and Fort are open to the public from 10 AM to 5 PM
Registration and tickets: www.FortLigonier.org / upcoming events