Cantare, the East Bay’s premier intergenerational choral organization, will close its season with “Until All of Us Are Free” this May.

The concert, which will take place on Saturday, May 16, 2026 at Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church in Lafayette, California, will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by uniting Cantare’s Adult Chorale, led by Founding Artistic Director David Morales, and the award-winning Aurora Choir of high school-aged singers, directed by Julie Haydon, Director of Children’s & Youth Choirs.

The program spans several centuries and an eclectic range of genres. Revolutionary-era composer William Billings is represented alongside Howard Hanson’s choral setting of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Democracy.” The concert also draws from the Broadway stage, with “Keep Marching” from “Suffs,” and reaches into popular music with Garth Brooks’ “We Shall Be Free” and the Black Eyed Peas’ “Where Is the Love.” There will also be spirituals and  and arrangements of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and “America the Beautiful.”

The performance commences at 7:30 p.m.

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