Freedom to Sing
Choral Festival
Each day of the World Pride Festival the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) will present a 45-minute pop-up choral performance that include ensembles of GMCW (Potomac Fever, Rock Creek Singers, Seasons of Love, GenOUT Youth Chorus, and 17th Street Dance) and several other GALA choruses from around the country*. Venues under consideration include the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Epiphany Church, St Thomas Church, Live at 10th & G, National City Church, and Sixth & I. Additionally, GMCW will present their annual Pride Show Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, at a venue TBD.
Friday, May 23 – Sunday, June 8
Multiple Locations
* To date the following choruses have expressed interest in participating:
- Brolo (Philadelphia, PA)
- Central Maryland Rainbow Chorus
- Common Woman Chorus (Durham, NC)
- Congressional Chorus (Washington, DC)
- Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC
- GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC)
- Hartford Gay Men’s Chorus (Harford, CT)
- Lavender Light Gospel Chorus (New York, NY)
- Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
- National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir
- New Wave Singers of Baltimore
- New York City Gay Men’s Chorus
- Not What You Think (Washington, DC)
- Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
- Potomac Fever (Washington, DC)
- Richmond Allied Voices (Richmond, VA)
- Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC)
- Sacred and Profane Chamber Chorus (Berkeley, CA)
- Seasons of Love (Washington, DC)
- Seventh Son (Charlotte, NC)
- The Treble Chorus (Richmond, VA)
- Tonewall (New York, NY)
- Triangle Men’s Chorus (Raleigh, NC)
- Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus (Minneapolis, MN)
- U.S. Army Chorus
- Vox (Charlotte, NC)