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Welcome to GALA Festival 2012!

GALA Festival

4.5 days, 45 ensembles, 130 choirs, 200 performances, and over 6,000 delegates in beautiful downtown Denver, Colorado! Are you ready for a music-packed and fabulous GALA Festival 2012?

July 7-11, 2012, Denver Colorado

Festival 2012 features many new and exciting programming elements including three incredible performing venues, late-night cabaret venues for ensembles, evening Block Buster concerts, morning Coffee Concerts, additional performance opportunities, youth programming and special events for women.

Festival offers an opportunity to share our joy in making music that makes a difference as over 6,000 GALA delegates descend upon Denver for five days of music-making.

Chorus Supporters

Are you an alumnus of a GALA Chorus, a partner of a singer, board member, or a singer from a chorus not performing at Festival? Check out the many opportunities for delegates who are not performing at Festival 2012 and join us at Festival!

Delegate Check-In Information

Arriving delegates will be able to pick up their badges starting at 3:00 on Friday afternoon, July 6. Registration and badge pickup continues all day Saturday, July 7 from 9:00am to 9:00pm. Badge pickup, registration and delegate services, along with this Festival's exciting GALA Store, are all conveniently located at The Buell Theater, the center of the three theaters at the Denver Performing Arts Complex and Galleria. After picking up your badge, plan to start the Festival Party at the on-site Sculpture Park Festival Saloon! The GALA Festival Party in the Sculpture Park starts on Friday at 3:00pm and continues all day Saturday!

Guess Who's Coming to Festival


“There is a certain spark in the eyes of GALA members as they sing for one another. It is the knowledge of what their choruses do in their home communities and the joy of knowing that the audience in front of them understands how that history sweetens every note. The act of true appreciation is never more evident than when it is experienced between a chorus standing on a stage at a GALA Festival and the audience jumping up to a standing ovation because the sheer joy at someone else's success in song.”

Shawn Northcutt,
Festival 2008 Miami Videographer