Eve Campbell and Jeff Heine share their history, passion, and experience in chorus management with GALA Choruses. Find resources for chorus management at the GALA Choruses Resource Center.  

GALA board president Mindy Taylor shares some photos and experiences from her time in Washington D.C. for Arts Advocacy Day 2015. Events were held March 23rd and 24th and serve as a way for organizations to receive crucial advocacy training from experts in the field and then put that training into practice. Here’s Mindy: “As GALA was […]

Mitch Menchaca, chief operations officer (now interim CEO) of Chorus America, shares his years of experience about the grant application process for GALA Choruses. Mitch also sings with The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC. Learn more about funding for Choruses on the GALA Choruses Resource Center: https://galachoruses.org/resource-center/chorus-managers/fund-development

In early 2014 GALA Choruses joined other LGBTQ organizations in writing to Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, asking “that the IOC develop language that explicitly includes sexual orientation in existing non-discrimination policies.” The full text of the letter from GALA Choruses can be found in a previous blog post here. The IOC has responded […]

American musician and songwriter Norah Jones said, “For me, making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.”  On November 22 and 23, 2014 Perfect Harmony Men’s Chorus (PHMC) – Madison, WI, City of Festivals Men’s Chorus (COFMC) – Milwaukee, WI, and One Voice Mixed Chorus (One Voice) – St. Paul, MN came together to […]

Karen Yair, who sits on the board of directors of Big Apple Performing Arts, and Charlie Beale, artistic director of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, tell the story of an audience research study conducted earlier this year by New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. Learn more at: http://www.galachoruses.org/resource-center/chorus-managers/marketing View the more on the […]

GALA Choruses executive director Robin Godfrey and artistic director Jane Ramseyer Miller discuss their session from the 2014 GALA Leadership Symposium in Cleveland about copyrights and licensing. This workshop taught the basics of music licensing and the various kinds of copyright for those with little-to-no background in this area. Robin and Jane covered the legalities […]