Rainbow Harmony Project is Winnipeg’s choral community of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks and allies dedicated to effecting social change, building relationships, and celebrating diverse identities and lived experiences through the power of song. Over the last two decades, Rainbow Harmony Project has provided space for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks and allies to meet new people and explore what it means …
Founded in spring, 2012, by founding president Bleu Copas, and founding artistic director Christopher Hamblin, the Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus held their first performance at KnoxPride with fifteen members. The following year KGMC joined the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA), the national parent organization of LGBTQIA+ Choruses, and received official 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. …
Pride Chorus Houston (PCH) was originally founded as the Montrose Singers in November of 1979. The Montrose Singers became the Gay Men’s Chorus of Houston (GMCH) and later expanded to include the Bayou City Women’s Chorus (BCWC) under the umbrella of Bayou City Performing Arts (BCPA). We now perform as Pride Chorus Houston, a unified …
The Pittsburgh Pride Choir affirms and celebrates LGBTQIA+ identity through the unifying power of music. The Pittsburgh Pride Choir is western Pennsylvania’s only LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual) and allies choral group. We strive to promote a positive image of the LGBTQIA+ community and to be a leading contributor to the cultural …
Puget Soundworks is built on the following values: LGBTQIA+ centered: Working towards dismantling the gender boundaries & language traditionally found in choral music. Provide a welcoming, safe space for all gender identities and sexual orientations. Kindness is key: Everyone speaks and acts in a way that is respectful and compassionate. Create beautiful music: We love to sing and …
Commissioned by the GALA Choruses Festival V — 1996, Tampa, Florida. Motherless Child is derived, in part, from the African-American spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” The original song dates back to the era of slavery when it was common practice to sell children of slaves away from their parents. In this new adaptation, …
The Rainbow Chorale of Delaware is an inclusive, non-profit community chorus that provides LGBTQ individuals, with their friends and allies, the opportunity to perform high-quality choral music in an affirming environment that serves as a positive force for change. In addition, the Rainbow Chorale supports other institutions and individuals who serve that community. Love of music is …
In the late 1980s, founding director Bob Phibbs sought to create a place where music was used as a vehicle to remind us all that we are more alike than different. Having previously served as the director of the Long Beach Gay Men’s Chorus, Phibbs and some friends began recruiting people who simply enjoyed singing …
Our Phoenix (2015) for SATB chorus, piano, and trumpet, ca. 4′ Commissioned by GALA Choruses for GALA Festival 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Co-commissioned for Our Song of Atlanta, Georgia, One Voice Chorus of Charlotte, North Carolina, River City Mixed Chorus of Omaha, Nebraska, One Voice Mixed Chorus of St. Paul, Minnesota, The Esoterics of Seattle, Washington, …
The New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, and 16 other GALA choruses from across the country commissioned Quiet No More, composed by 6 of today’s most influential LGBTQ composers and an amazing librettist to tell the story of the Stonewall Uprising and the Gay Rights Movement through the …