A Cooperative Web of Feminist Choruses
Festivals
Sister Singers Network seeks to gather member choruses for a national choral festival every four years. The festivals are produced by a member chorus host (or co-hosts) – with support and guidance from the network Steering Committee and choruses that have produced festivals in the past.
Sister Singers Network Choral Festival 2026
Power in Harmony, the 14th Sister Singers Network Choral Festival will be held July 8-12, 2026, hosted by Artemis Singers, Chicago's Lesbian Feminist Chorus, at Loyola University Lakeshore Campus in Chicago, IL.
Individual attendee registration is now open, and the Early Bird discount deadline is 2/14/2026. There are specific Registration links for members of each registered chorus (and their companions), and links for Independent Attendees and their companions. To find your link, go to: Individual Registration
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Sign-ups for campus housing, meals, and parking at Loyola University will go directly through Loyola at this link: Loyola Housing, Meals, & Parking Sign-Up. (Festival Registration confirmation number from Individual Registration on Whova site is required to be able to have a housing sign-up honored by Loyola.)
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Planning Future Festivals
Member Choruses, YOU are the thing that makes festivals happen--literally. We have to have a host chorus in order to have a festival. Please think about whether your chorus could host the 2030 Sister Singers Network Festival. We have documents available to help you consider whether you are ready and able to host an SSN Festival. This includes documents from previous festivals to help guide you in your planning, should you decide to become a festival host. Most importantly, members who have produced previous festivals are eager to share their experience and answer your questions!
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Request for Proposal & Early Planning Document for 2030 SSN Festival
"A Universal Dream" performed by Water Chorus, mass chorus, at Our Kind of Sound, Sister Singers Network 10th National Women's Choral Festival, Chicago, 2010. Commissioned by Sister Singers Network. Music by Jenni Brandon. Lyrics by Meta Hellman and Jenni Brandon. Copyright © 2009. Available from Santa Barbara Music Publishing.
"Lineage" performed by Prairie Chorus, mass chorus, at Returning to Our Roots, Sister Singers Network 11th National Women's Choral Festival, Champaign-Urbana, 2014. Commissioned by Sister Singers Network. Music by Andrea Ramsey. Lyrics by Margaret Walker. Copyright © 2013. Available from Boosey & Hawkes.