EASTON, MARYLAND — Ampersand brought “Music of the New Nation” to the Avalon Foundation’s Stoltz Listening Room on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026. The Avalon event page listed doors at 6:30 p.m., show at 7:00 p.m., and tickets at $25, fees not included.

The Revolutionary War–era program focused on the home front and everyday people facing the fight for independence. Ampersand’s own program note at ampersandmusic.org/ampersand250 describes songs about the stirrings of revolution, colonists in different walks of life, soldiers on both sides, a tune written by an enslaved person, and protest songs from the period. That same note lists guitar, mandolin, cello, penny whistles, and hammered dulcimer.

Who plays what is on the group’s Musicians page, ampersandmusic.org/about-us: Beth Lawton, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and occasionally banjo or mountain dulcimer; Dick Hogle, guitar, mandolin, and banjo; Topher Lawton, cello, bouzouki, harmonium, bodhran and other percussion, and penny whistles; Dave Moore, guitar, harmonica, banjo, and bass. That is Ampersand’s published roster, not a Friday-night setlist.

The Avalon Foundation venue is at 40 East Dover Street in Easton. Box office contact on Avalon’s calendar materials: 410-822-7299; boxoffice [at] avalonfoundation.org. Ampersand’s Ampersand250 schedule listed the Stoltz date for Friday, Sept. 4, at 7:00 p.m., matching the Avalon show time.