A Cooperative Web of Feminist Choruses
with Director Debbie Nordeen, Womansong of Asheville
with Director Karen Mooney, Artemis Singers of Chicago
with Director Debbie Nordeen, Womansong of Asheville
Sister Singers Network is a cooperative web of feminist choruses, ensembles, composers, arrangers, and individual singers working together
to support and enrich the women's choral movement.
Event Highlights
Sister Singers Network Choral Festival 2023
June 28-July 2, 2023
We Rock the World, the 13th Sister Singers Network Choral Festival, was held in Cleveland, Ohio. This SSN Choral Festival was hosted by Windsong, Cleveland’s Feminist Chorus, with co-hosts Columbus Women’s Chorus and MUSE, Cincinnati’s Women’s Choir.
Thanks to the SSN member choruses who travelled and performed and made this festival great! Amasong: Champaign-Urbana's Premier Lesbian-Feminist Chorus, Illinois; Anna Crusis Feminist Choir; Artemis Singers: Chicago's Lesbian Feminist Chorus; Calliope Feminist Choir, Athens, Ohio; Columbus Women's Chorus; Grand Rapids Women's Chorus, Michigan; Indianapolis Women's Chorus; Joyful Noise, Cleveland; Rochester Women's Community Chorus, New York; MUSE, Cincinnati Women's Choir; San Diego Women's Chorus, California; Sistrum, Lansing Women's Chorus, Michigan; Voices Rising, Boston; Women in Harmony, Maine; Womansong of Asheville, North Carolina.
The host of the next Sister Singers Network Festival, which we hope will be in 2026, has not yet volunteered. Festival proposals are welcome, and due by October 1, 2023. Please reach out to the Steering Committee with any questions, if you are considering hosting. Here's a document to help you get started: Request for Proposal & Early Planning Document for 2026 SSN Festival
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I liken the SSN Festival experience to the Academy Awards. We are performing for each other, and for a few short days, the rest of the world does not exist. Even better, we do not need little gold statues to affirm our worth as women and as singers – we have our sister singers to do that.