WorldPride 2025 is coming to Washington, DC and Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington will be the anchor of the arts and culture calendar. In celebration of WorldPride 2025, GMCW will present a two-week International Choral Festival, where choruses and groups will perform pop-up concerts with GMCW at venues all around the DC metro area.
The festival will bring the DC metro area to life with daily hour-long pop-up performances showcasing the power, pride, and diversity of queer choral music. Each day of the festival, audiences will experience performances by GMCW’s own ensembles — Potomac Fever, Rock Creek Singers, Seasons of Love, GenOUT Youth Chorus, and 17th Street Dance — alongside guest choruses from across the country, many of them members of the national GALA Choruses network. Festival highlights will include special collaborations with local and national ensembles, the area premiere of A Peacock Among Pigeons, and the world premiere of Our Wildest Imaginings, a new work by acclaimed composer Dominick DiOrio, honoring The Right Reverend Bishop Gene V. Robinson.
Participating choruses include:
- 7th Son (Charlotte, NC)
- Asian Rainbow Chorus (New York, NY)
- Brolo (Philadelphia, PA)
- Central Maryland Rainbow Chorus (Columbia, MD)
- Cherry Blossom District (Washington, DC)
- Congressional Chorus (Washington, DC)
- DC Labor Chorus (Washington, DC)
- Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (Washington, DC)
- GenOUT Youth Chorus (Washington, DC)
- Jabberwocks (Providence, RI)
- Jackson Reed High School Concert Choir (Washington, DC)
- Lavender Light Gospel Choir (New York, NY)
- LOVE Chorus (USA)
- Major Minors (Nashville, TN)
- National LGBTQIA+ Flute Choir (USA)
- New Wave Singers of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
- New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (New York, NY)
- Not What You Think (Washington, DC)
- On That Note! (Hartford, CT)
- Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus (Philadelphia, PA)
- Potomac Fever (Washington, DC)
- Richmond Allied Voices (Richmond, VA)
- Rock Creek Singers (Washington, DC),
- Sacred and Profane Chorus (Berkeley, CA)
- Seasons of Love (Washington, DC)
- Spite & Malice (Charlotte, NC)
- Tonewall (New York, NY)
- Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus (Raleigh, NC)
- Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus (Minneapolis, MN)
- Vox Dominae (Charlotte, NC)
Participating venues include Atlas Performing Arts Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Union Market, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, St. Thomas’ Parish, Capital Jewish Museum, Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, First Congregational United Church of Christ, Foundry United Methodist Church, JW Marriott Washington, DC, The Falls Church, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Library among others.
All performances are FREE and open to the public, with a limited number of Premium Passes available for purchase. The full schedule, which is subject to change, is available HERE.
WORLD PRIDE INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL performs May 22 to June 8, 2025 in various venues around the DC metro area. For more information or schedule updates, visit the festival’s website. Special Premium Passes available online or call 202-293-1548.
For more information about WorldPride 2025, click HERE.