** potential new members should contact cvillewomenschoir@gmail.com **
Our Five Guiding Principles
We, the members of the Charlottesville Women’s Choir, are committed to:
- Participating in shared leadership and responsibility for the choir and regular attendance at the weekly practices in order to achieve the highest level of musicianship possible in our singing.
- Celebrating the camaraderie and fun of making music together.
- Maintaining a cultural and ethnic diversity in the music that we practice and perform.
- Singing and performing music in support of change towards justice, equality, hope, freedom, environment, and peace.
- Running the choir with a “collective soul” where everyone has a voice in what we do and how we do it, and where we reach decisions by group consensus.
Interested in trying us out?
New members are generally welcomed at the start of each singing season. Women who are interested in singing with us are welcome to attend our open rehearsals in early fall, generally the Mondays in the month of September after Labor Day.
Reading music is helpful, but not a requirement. We have good singers of both kinds! A love of singing is the only requirement.
There are annual dues for each member to assist in covering the choir costs; the amount is a sliding scale depending on ability to pay. Inability to make a financial contribution towards dues does not impact the ability to be a member of CWC.
Our season: We sing every Monday, 6:30–8:00 p.m., from September through the end of May, culminating in our annual benefit concert which is usually the first Sunday in June. We rehearse in the Sanctuary at Sojourner’s Church. We take a break over the summer months.
If you would like to check out our community, feel free to come early to the open rehearsals in September to meet our community, ask questions, converse with our members and sing with us. There will be an orientation for potential new members prior to or after rehearsal on the one of the open rehearsal nights to give you more complete information about our community and expectations of each other.
For more information about joining, send an e-mail request for membership info to: cvillewomenschoir@gmail.com
