NAHANT ? Several Nahant residents are members of the Apollo Club of Boston, which is one of the oldest male choral groups in the country. The Apollo Club is scheduled to perform a free concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Nahant Town Hall, 334 Nahant Road.The Apollo Club of Boston is the second oldest male choral group, after New York’s Apollo Society, in the United States.It was organized in 1871 after the Massachusetts legislature voted by resolution that it be chartered “for the practice and performance of choruses for male voices and for the cultivation of a refined taste in this class of music.” Several North Shore residents are longtime members of the club, which practices in Boston. Swampscott resident John Monihyan is a former president of the Apollo Club and the oldest living member of the club is Nahant resident John Dineen, who has recruited many club members over the years. Other local members of the club include Joseph Byrne of Marblehead and Ralph Souppa of Swampscott.The “Songs of Endearment” concert will include a medley of love songs from Renaissance to modern times featuring such composers as Henry Purcell, Ben Jonson, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Eubie Blake, Kurt Weill and Cole Porter.Some luminary past members of the club included Thomas Bell, sculptor of the equestrian statue of George Washington, which stands in the Boston Public Garden; James Ratigan, the Irish portrait painter who would later become director of music at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross; and Col. Arnold A. Rand of the 4th Massachusetts Cavalry in the Civil War.The annual concert in Nahant is unique from all other Apollo Club performances because at the conclusion of the performance the group always performs “The Nahant Hymn,” which was penned by two Nahant residents.