Gala Lads

"Experienced" - and proving it - might best describe the members of the 1962 International quartet champion, The Gala Lads from Alhambra, CA.

While a few gold medalists have been young and won while in their teens, the Gala Lads averaged 36 years of age when they won the championship. Tenor Dave Panther was 28, lead Tom Keehan 35, bari Gordie Lees 36, and bass Bill Cockrell 45.

Garden City Chorus

Garden State Chorale

Garden State Chorale, Inc. is a non-profit, Southern New Jersey, community choral group, under the direction of Nicholas Petroski. The group has been performing Holiday concerts and Broadway musicals annually for over 80 years, including providing backup for Andy Williams at the Trump Castle in Atlantic City, being selected as the USS New Jersey's performance choir, and performing in Pennsauken's 9/11 memorial program. The group's credits also include pops' concerts, patriotic concerts and community events in Camden, Burlington, Ocean and Salem counties. The group's musical selections range from sacred selections to classics of the early twentieth century to hits of the current day. Garden State Chorale's mission of providing quality music to the South Jersey community helps fund our scholarship program! Every year Garden State Chorale, Inc. awards a scholarship to a graduating high school senior in Southern New Jersey who is pursuing their college education in vocal studies.

Garden State Quartet

These four sang together for about a year, then Verdick enlisted in the Navy. The search for a fourth part began and in May of 1943, the trio found Jack Briody, who had recently been discharged from the Army. Rau was a former nightclub entertainer and Freeland had been a member of a tumbling and singing act in vaudeville during the 1920s. He had also appeared in Irving Berlin's Broadway show, Yip, Yip, Yaphank. Briody had sung on the radio and in nightclubs with the Garden State Trio and Marrese was a glee club baritone until he began singing with the quartet.

Gas House Gang

In the 1930's The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team was nicknamed "The Gas House Gang" to describe the players' fiery attitude toward the game and their fun-loving style of play. In 1987 a quartet from the St. Louis area chose the name to match its own personality. Since that time, the foursome's energetic singing style and diverse repertoire have proven the appropriateness of the title to people across North America and Europe. After winning the 1988 Central States District Competition in their first attempt, they began a steady climb up the International Competition ladder which culminated in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where they were awarded the 1993 International Quartet Championship with the highest point total ever scored on the International stage.

Gaslight Chorus

The Gaslight Chorus is a group of male a cappella barbershop singers and is part of the Barbershop Harmony Society. The Brea Chapter is one of over 700 chapters in the Society. The Society is composed of 17 Districts representing all of the 50 states and Canada. The Brea Chapter is part of the Far Western District (FWD) which includes California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, and parts of southern Utah

Gateway Men's Chorus

In the fall of 1987, an advertisement ran in the Gay and Lesbian News Telegraph seeking men interested in forming St Louis's first gay chorus. By the spring of 1988, the chorus had grown to 22 men and, under the direction of Michael Cohrs, presented its first concert -- One Voice. With the staging of SHINE: A Celebration of Broadway in June 2017, under the direction of Robert Stumpf, the Gateway Men's Chorus will have presented its 90th major concert and concluded its 30th Anniversary season.

Throughout its first 30 years, the Gateway Men's Chorus has opened its stage to over 650 singers and performed over 1200 musical works. The chorus has commissioned a number of pieces through the years, including adaptations of poetry standards, Supreme Court speeches, and satirical works. Many of these works have since been performed by choruses throughout the country, carrying the legacy of GMC from coast-to- coast. And, in addition to appearing on stages around St. Louis, the chorus has performed in Kansas City, Denver, Atlanta, New Orleans, Miami, Montreal, San Jose, Tampa, and even once auditioned for America's Got Talent!

Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Men's Chorus (GAPA)

Established in 1988 after months of discussion and soul searching from several members of the Asian Gay Men's Support Group at Berkeley's Pacific Center, GAPA was formed fundamentally to organize, integrate and nurture a growing gay & bisexual Asian and Pacific Islander (API) identity and to foster positive role models within our communities. Three decades on we continue forward as a vanguard for the queer and transgender API community in the Bay Area. We helped build institutions like the SF Community Health Center, formerly API Wellness Center, and GAPA Runway, one of the longest running SF pageants.

Gay Men's Chorus of Asheville

It seems like a lifetime ago that our chorus met and sang together. Everything has changed in so many ways and we are all trying very hard to adjust to a new "normal" as we navigate the ongoing pandemic.

For many of our members, singing together is not just a hobby or a social outlet; it is the defining essence of who we are as people and as spiritual beings. Singing together creates a space where we express not only our own identities, feelings and beliefs, but those of our greater LGBTQ community. We celebrate, mourn, reflect, exhort and sometimes raise our voices in anger. Sometimes we sing for those who no longer can.

Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte

Through artistic achievement, education, and engagement, the Gay Men's Chorus of Charlotte endeavors to create a society which values and respects its lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members.

Gay Men's Chorus of Honolulu

The Gay Men's Chorus of Honolulu was founded in September, 2012, and is proud to be the first openly gay musical organization in the State of Hawai'i. The mission of GMCofH is to sing, to perform, and to celebrate the voices of men.

Gay Men's Chorus of Houston

For 40 years, the Gay Men's Chorus of Houston has been delighting audiences in Houston with our fun music with messages of pride and inclusion.

Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles

The Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles has been a notable part of the Southern California performing arts community. Formed July 12, 1979 as a volunteer effort of 99 gay men from all over the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, GMCLA has grown in size, gained professional artistic and administrative staff, toured nationally and internationally, released fourteen CDs, and appeared with numerous stage, film and television celebrities including Billy Porter, Lily Tomlin, Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Malcolm Gets, Doris Roberts, Jerry Herman, Melissa Manchester, Mary McDonnell, Levi Kreis, Joanna Gleason, Alex Newell, Amber Riley, Charles Pierce, Miss Coco Peru, Valarie Pettiford, Jane Lanier, Randi Driscoll, Margaret Cho, Michael Jeter, Stephen Schwartz, Liz Callaway, Lance Bass, Jennifer Holliday, Tierney Sutton and LeAnn Rimes. The Chorus has appeared on several television broadcasts including the 85th Academy Awards, Access Hollywood, Will & Grace, $#*! My Dad Says, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Mad TV, and a six-episode arc on Six Feet Under

Gay Men's Chorus of Washington

GMCW is a renowned performance group. Since 1981, we've performed shows nationally, internationally, and at-home in Washington, DC. To date, we have 250+ singing members. Five select ensembles. Five hundred donors. And an annual audience of 10,000+. Our mission is to use music to promote equality, achieve justice, and overcome our differences. That - and put on one hell of a show in the process.

Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC

GMCW is a renowned performance group. Since 1981, we've performed shows nationally, internationally, and at-home in Washington, DC. To date, we have 250+ singing members. Five select ensembles. Five hundred donors. And an annual audience of 10,000+. Our mission is to use music to promote equality, achieve justice, and overcome our differences. That - and put on one hell of a show in the process.

Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida

The Gay Men's Chorus of South Florida (GMCSF) is an artistic force dedicated to social change. In just ten short years we have grown to over 130 members, making us the largest gay men's chorus in the southeastern United States. Driven to open more minds and change more hearts, we continue to expanded into larger venues and broaden community outreach, which allows to annually reach more than 20,000 people.

Over the course of our 10-year history, GMCSF has been invited to perform in a broad range of high-profile events. We have performed at the Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University, the Gusman Theatre, Nova Southeastern University, The City of Miami Beach, The Miami Heat, the Master Chorale of South Florida and more.

The Chorus has always given back to the community through outreach efforts such as providing over two-thousand teddy bears to the Broward County Hospitals Pediatric Auxiliary each year, chaperoning at a gay youth prom, performing with a local special needs theatre company, participating in Temple Sinai's Holocaust remembrance events, and walking and raising money for the AIDS walk, among many other community projects. In 2017 we began welcoming community nonprofits and the clients they serve to select concerts, allowing us to reach the community's most vulnerable citizens. In 2019 the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce awarded GMCSF the Nonprofit Small Business of the Year Award in recognition of our outstanding business practices and success.

Gay Men’s Chorus of Tampa Bay

We celebrate the inherent dignity of all people through excellence in men's choral music.

Gaynotes

The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Harmony (SPEBSQSA) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so it was no surprise when Oklahoma quartets captured the first three International (then national) crowns. But it would be 20 years after the Society's formation before the title returned to the Sooner state.

In 1958 in Columbus, Ohio, four Tulsa men called the Gaynotes won the gold medals as International champions. They were Harold Jones, tenor; Howard Rinkel, lead; John Loots, bari, and Morris "Mo" Rector, bass. Howard and John had sung in a couple of earlier quartets, including one sponsored by an ice cream company which required that they perform at least twice a week.

Gel Caps

Since 1989, when the original members -- Bill Beasley, Russell Horsch, and Mike Reed -- first appeared together at the Michigan Theater in Jackson, MI for a Christmas show, The GelCaps have drawn a following of fans at car shows, bars, parties and many other events throughout lower Michigan, performing a cappella doo-wop in the traditional streetcorner style. They have performed for actor Jeff Daniels at the Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, MI and at private parties in his home. In the 1996 election year they wrote and performed a song for Pat Paulsen's Presidential campaign. They also made it onto Zack Butler's list of "Silly Band Names" for March 1, 1999. Their music seems to appeal to all ages -- some people are taken back to younger days and simpler times, while others just appreciate the pure sounds and vocal intricacies of tight a cappella harmonies.

Gem City Chorus

There is so much more to Gem City than just meeting and singing a cappella music. Starting as a merger of two local chapters (Kettering & Dayton) in 1970 the Gem City Chorus has been dedicated to the education and preservation of the 'barbershop style' of a cappella harmony - one of the four American musical art forms We are a proud member of Sweet Adelines International, Region 4.

Gem City Chorus has won an impressive number of International medals including five gold, five silver, and one each of third, fourth, fifth and sixth - a feat achieved by no other Sweet Adeline chorus! The chorus currently is the sixth place International medalist.

Genesee Valley Children's Choir

Genesee Valley Orchestra & Chorus

Gentlemen Songsters

One definition of "songster" says that the term is "not often applied to human beings." We find that pretty strange, since the theme song of the famed a cappella Yale Whiffenpoofs includes the line: "Gentlemen Songsters off on a spree." That's where we got the term.

There really is no average Songster. Our individual musical talents and experience are diverse. Some of us have little or none, while others are accomplished musicians. We represent all walks of life and our age differences span 60 years. But as Aristotle said, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." The bottom line is that we are simply a group of men who share a love of music, performance, and friendships that continue through the years.

Our goal is to provide audiences with artistic and invigorating performances while we enjoy camaraderie. We have sung the national anthem at Gillette Stadium and the Boston Garden. We have organized and participated in shows that features classic barbershop melodies as well as pop tunes. And we have brought our voices to enhance numerous senior living, high school, university, and community events. We continue to strive for musical excellence in all we do, and in doing so continue to increase our presence in our surrounding communities.

Gentlemen's Agreement

The Gentlemen's Agreement, 1971 International champion, is one quartet that really was and "overnight success." Almost, anyway. Organized in December 1969, it qualified for the international contest in the spring, went to Atlantic City in July and came home with fourth-place medals. The following year, in New Orleans, the Detroit-area quartet won the whole ball of wax. But why not? Two of its members (baritone Glenn Van Tassell and tenor Al Rehkop) claimed their second gold medals in New Orleans; they had been half of the Auto Towners, 1966 champions. And the other two, lead Drayton Justus and bass Bob Whitledge, were equally talented, long-time barbershoppers, even though they didn't have medals to show for it.

Georgia Boy Choir

The purpose of the Georgia Boy Choir is to achieve the highest possible standard of musical excellence, while instilling in its members a life-long appreciation of music; an abiding love of beauty; a keen sense of respect for themselves and others; and the self-discipline necessary to become effective leaders in their families, their communities and the world.

Georgia Children's Chorus

Georgia Children's Chorus (GCC) is a 100-voice children's chorus in-residence at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. GCC singers ages 7-18 from the greater Athens area achieve high artistic standards in a nurturing atmosphere. They build teamwork, self-expression, and confidence - developing musically while having fun.

In a city known for creating music and musicians, it is fitting that Athens has a children's chorus as vibrant as GCC. Typically, large children's choir programs are located in major metropolitan areas, making GCC's presence in Athens a valuable community asset.

Germantown Community Chorus

We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts advocacy choral organization of 60-70 volunteer singers. We are always open to new members. Come sing with us in up to 6 concerts per season! Everyday people creating beautiful music since 1986!

Gettysburg Civic Chorus

The Gainesville Civic Chorus began its existence under the direction of Elwood Keister in 1976 as the Bicentennial Choir, and played a major role in the community's celebration of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. So gratifying were its musical efforts and so congenial were its activities that its members re-formed as the Gainesville Civic Chorus the following year. The permanent name selection deliberately underscores the Chorus' commitment to the cultural enrichment of the Gainesville community, a commitment which was quickly recognized. In 1978, the Chorus received the Gainesville Cultural Commission's award as the community's "best organization involved in the performing arts." It has also gained recognition by both the City Commission and the Alachua County Commission as the community's official chorus. Among the eighty or so members are retired citizens, business persons, university professors, professional musicians and others from many walks of life.

Gimme Four

Gimme Four is an International Semifinalist and District Champion barbershop quartet based in Caldwell, New Jersey. Paul, Dave, Will, and Joe have been singing together since 2011. The quartet was formed out of a mutual love for barbershop harmony, friendship, and a burning desire to reach the highest level possible. The quartet loves to compete, loves to teach, loves to coach, loves to work, and loves to make friends, but more than anything else, loves to make music that leaves a lasting impression - one that changes someone's day, and maybe even their life.

Ginger ‘N’ Jazz

Ginger 'n' Jazz competed four times internationally before winning the championship. Their winning songs were You'd Be Surprised, Who'll Take My Place When I'm Gone, Take Me to the Land of Jazz, Pal of My Cradle Days, 'Deed I Do, Put Your Arms Around Me Honey, and So Long Mother.

Their coach was another champion, Dale Syverson (Tiffanys, 1973; Rumors, 1999). In 1989 Peggy Barnes (Gram) became the replacement for Judy Clancy as bass, and the group entertained until retirement in 1995. Debbie was the founding director of Sooner Sensations Chorus in Oklahoma City until her untimely passing in August, 2015. Peggy would later win a crown as the bass in Rumors and spend many years as the director of the Top of the Rock Chorus in Little Rock, Arkansas. Friedemann has been an assistant director in Region 25's Talk of Tulsa chorus along with her husband, Frank.

Girl Band

GIRL BAND is a contemporary women's a cappella group based in Seattle. The group performs regularly at small venues around Seattle including bars, cafes, farmers markets, and private venues.

GIRL BAND strives to keep a fresh repertoire, rotating new music into the set every few months. Nearly all GIRL BAND members arrange for the group, and three members beatbox. The group was founded in 2014 by alums of Seattle U and UPS, and now also includes a WWU alum.

Girl Choir of South Florida

The Girl Choir of South Florida is the premier singing ensemble for girls and young women ages 6 through 18. We are the only not-for-profit all girl choir organization in South Florida. The Girl Choir, led by Artistic Director Sylvia Aycock, has been extolled by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as "imaginative, accessible, expressive, and entertaining", gaining a reputation for delivering compelling concert programming. We are an international touring choir that blends a multitude of cultures through the experience of voice.

Giving Voice Chorus

Co-founders Mary Lenard and Marge Ostroushko were struck by recent discoveries about the powerful effects of music on the lives of people with dementia. Both had cared for parents with dementia and felt a call to contribute their experiences and their energy to building a new program that allowed people with dementia and their care partners to live better-with joy, with purpose, with friends, and with each othe

Giving Voice Chorus in Minneapolis

Giving Voice oversees three choruses in Minneapolis and St. Paul in collaboration with MacPhail Center for Music. Each chorus rehearses once a week and performs at least one concert each fall, spring, and summer session. Giving Voice also provides assistance for Amazing Grace, an African-American chorus in St. Paul.

Chorus members include people with dementia, their care partners, and volunteers. We welcome any person who is living with Alzheimer's or another dementia who can attend the structured weekly rehearsals and, most importantly, wants to make good music and good friends! There are no auditions, and no musical training or experience is necessary.

Giving Voice Chorus in St. Paul

Giving Voice oversees three choruses in Minneapolis and St. Paul in collaboration with MacPhail Center for Music. Each chorus rehearses once a week and performs at least one concert each fall, spring, and summer session. Giving Voice also provides assistance for Amazing Grace, an African-American chorus in St. Paul.

Chorus members include people with dementia, their care partners, and volunteers. We welcome any person who is living with Alzheimer's or another dementia who can attend the structured weekly rehearsals and, most importantly, wants to make good music and good friends! There are no auditions, and no musical training or experience is necessary.

Glacier Symphony Chorale

Glacier Symphony, Orchestra and Chorale is Northwest Montana's premier musical organization, boasting a year 'round concert season and Montana's only week-long classical music festival, Festival Amadeus

Glad

As Contemporary Christian Music magazine describes it, "Nearly two decades ago, Glad's elegant vocals helped set them apart from other pioneers of contemporary Christian music. That vocal sound has since evolved into a complex, self-sustaining life form of it's own..." For those of us in the field of a cappella music it is the vocals which the magazine mentions that are the primary interest in Glad. That's not the whole story, however. You see they really are a progressive Christian rock band. They got together on the campus of West Chester State University, near Philadelphia, in the early l970's. Early on the predilection toward complex vocals with classical and jazz overtones began to distinguish the band.

The group made a bold leap into the secular with their release of the fabulous recording A Cappella Gershwin. It not only set the a cappella world buzzing, but found us listening to their religious work.The beauty of their music is the most dynamic ministry that there could be. It has been pouring out of the hearts of these men for over twenty-five years and has been found on twenty recordings.

Glastonbury Chorus

The Glastonbury Chorus is a non-profit organization that serves the community with song. There are no auditions and you don't have to be a resident of Glastonbury to participate. A love of singing and a good sense of humor are all you need!

Glen Ellyn-Wheaton Community Chorale

The Chorale is an auditioned community group with a target membership of 60 singers. The group is open to anyone who loves to sing and learn in an enjoyable, non-threatening environment; however, membership does require commitment to weekly rehearsals and two major concerts per year, as well as other special performances at select venues.

Rehearsals are held on Tuesday evenings from 7:30-9:30 p.m. The Chorale's season runs from September to June, with seasonal concerts in December and May. Concerts often incorporate other singing groups, jazz and string ensembles, and instrumental soloists. Music is drawn from a variety of seasonal, classical, and ethnic works.

Gloria Dei Chorale

A choral community dedicated to musical excellence, glorifying God, and serving others through our collective gifts.

Gloriae Dei Cantores

Gloriae Dei Cantores (Singers to the Glory of God) holds a passionate dedication to illuminate truth and beauty through choral artistry, celebrating a rich tradition of sacred choral music from Gregorian chant through the twenty-first century. The choir has received extensive critical acclaim for its artistic elegance, performance authenticity, and compelling spirituality. Sharing its vision of inspiration and hope, Gloriae Dei Cantores has toured extensively, touching the hearts of audiences in 24 countries in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Director Elizabeth Patterson has led the choir in a number of world premieres, and appeared on the concert stage and in recordings with Keith Lockhart, John Williams, Samuel Adler, Mark O'Conner, Stephen Cleobury, Vladimir Minin, and the late George Guest, Mary Berry, and Margaret Hillis, among others.

Glorystar Children's Chorus

Glorystar Children's Chorus nurtures and provides excellent music education to children and youth (5-18 years old) in the joy of Choral Art. With a rich repertoire of Asian and Western music, GCC increases appreciation and builds bridges within our diverse community.

GMChorale

GMChorale brings professional and amateur mixed-voice singers together for instruction, rehearsal, and performance in the contemporary choral tradition. It presents works from the classical tradition to world-premiere commissioned pieces by notable composers.

Go Fish

Pop music has long known the value of sampling and building upon a well-loved Motown hit. Toys R Us fights to keep shelves stocked with the latest twists on century-old board games, from Star Wars Battleship to Toy Story Memory. And with new versions of such favorite films as Karate Kid and Footloose, it seems even Hollywood has gotten the message: You can't beat a classic. Nostalgic moms and dads are lining up with kids in tow, ready to share the growing line-up of souped-up childhood favorites.

So maybe, just maybe, when acclaimed family entertainers Go Fish hatched a seemingly hair-brained scheme to bring hymns to kids, the beloved group-who, among numerous accolades, has appeared on The Today Show and performed before a capacity crowd at St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center-just might have known what they were doing. They're Kickin' It Old School.

Gold City

Thirty years ago in the small historical gold rush town of Dahlonega, GA, the formation of one of the top groups in the southern gospel industry came together and started making history.

With over 49 hits songs and over 40 recordings, Gold City has earned numerous awards including Album of the Year, Song of The Year, Group of the Year and Vocalists of the Year, as well as many Dove nominations including a Dove award for There Rose A Lamb.

Traveling the United States and Canada over 200 dates a year, Gold City has an unparalleled dedication to the ministry of spreading the gospel.

As they continue to add hit songs to the list, Gold City also continues to bring glory and honor to God through the greatest music on earth.

Gold Coast Concert Chorus

The Gold Coast Concert Chorus began in January, 1988. For its first program, under the direction of Kurt Berensten, the Chorus' original 35 singers and two other choirs in Ventura, presented Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise" to celebrate Trinity Lutheran Church's 50th anniversary. The original goal of the chorus was to "provide an opportunity for people to sing, but without the stringent qualifications required by organizations with a classical repertoire." This philosophy piqued the interest of the choral community and the chorus quickly expanded. Today, the Gold Coast Concert Chorus is proud to be Ventura's largest community chorus consisting of over 100 active singers.

Gold Company

The Gold Company Program is widely recognized as one of the most successful and prestigious collegiate vocal jazz programs in the world. The award-winning ensembles perform a wide variety of repertoire which covers all styles in the contemporary vocal idiom. Gold Company has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and South Africa. The groups have appeared at Carnegie Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the World Symposium on Choral Music, the national conventions of MENC and IAJE, and divisional and national conventions of ACDA, as well as performing at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and the 1st Annual Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Jazz Festival. Gold Company has also appeared with guest artists including Bobby McFerrin, Janis Siegel, Mark Murphy, Rosemary Clooney, Kurt Elling, The Manhattan Transfer, Jon Hendricks, Darmon Meader, and Don Shelton and Bonnie Herman of The Singers Unlimited.

Gold Rush Chorus

The Gold Rush Chorus was founded in 1983 to bring the joy of Barbershop singing to the foothills of California. As a testament as to just how much fun we have, the GRC has a number of active members today who were charter members 35 years ago!

Gold Standard Barbershop Chorus

Gold Standard Chorus

Organized in October, 1989 (shortly after the big earthquake), the Gold Standard Chorus has had many local performances and participated in District competitions. We've sung along the route at a few Wharf-to-Wharf races, Scotts Valley's Christmas Tree lighting ceremonies, various residential facilities, and at two annual concerts. We also do annual Valengrams (singing Valentines) deliveries, and, most importantly, have a good time singing.