The Boston Camerata will perform Free America! Early Songs of Resistance and Rebellion (1790–1860) at the 1789 Alna Meetinghouse on Sunday, July 12, at 2 p..m. 

Founded in 1954 and now in its 72nd season under the direction of artistic director Anne Azéma, the Camerata will bring 15 musicians to Alna for an afternoon of early American songs, hymns and marches from the years 1790–1860 — performed inside a timber-frame Meetinghouse built when much of this music was new. The Alna performance opens the Camerata’s 2026/2027 New England season; the same program travels to Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall just four days later, on Thursday, July 16, and to Memorial Church at Harvard on Sunday, Oct. 25.

“The Camerata is thrilled to be able to perform music of the young Republic in such a gorgeous setting,” said Anne Azéma, the Camerata’s artistic director.

“Built in the same year that George Washington was first inaugurated as president, Alna’s 1789 Meetinghouse is one of the few physical connections in Lincoln County to the founding era — and a particularly fitting venue for songs from the decades that immediately followed,” said Ed Pentaleri, one of Historic Alna’s directors.

This performance is presented by Historic Alna, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organized to support the maintenance, preservation, restoration, and use of historic sites in the Town of Alna.

Tickets are available in advance at bostoncamerata.org/performances or at the door. For information about the venue and Historic Alna’s other upcoming events, visit historicalna.org or email historicalna@gmail.com