all artwork, unless otherwise noted, is by member Sue Dunmore
From Stonewall to LaGrange: A Concert featuring Artemis Singers and Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus
We were the guests of First Congregational Church of La Grange for this celebratory concert on the afternoon of Sunday, June 16, 2019. Thank you to our hosts!
We Sing What Sparkles: Pride Concert and Dance
As the changing Seasons and Medicine Wheels across cultures represent universal elements, we sang what sparkles through representations of Water, Wood, Earth, Metal, and Fire!
Dreamboat: An LGBTQIA+ Improv Team featuring Artemis Singers & Gone Gone
Artemis Singers previewed songs for the Sparkles concert, plus a couple of audience favorites.
Friday, June 7, 2019 8:00pm
The iO Theater, 1501 N Kingsbury St
Sheroes: Celebrating Women’s History Month
Opening for Queer Queens of Qomedy
Our pal Poppy Champlin invited us to open for her and her colleagues on the Queer Queens of Qomedy tour Sunday, April 28, 2019.
Holiday Hullabaloo with CGMC
We were pleased and honored to take part in late fall 2018 in a series of concerts to celebrate the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus: the 35th Anniversary Holiday Hullabaloo! We joined CGMC plus 9 other LGBTQI+ arts groups to mark this milestone.
We sang with the CGMC guys in all three performances:
Sister Singers Network Choral Festival, “More than Music Here”
June 27 – July 1, 2018
We traveled to Grand Rapids, Michigan for the 12th Sister Singers Network Choral Festival. Artemis Singers was one of 20 choruses from around the country at this wonderful event hosted by the Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus. We performed our set on Friday night and then joined one of the two Mass Choruses Saturday night to perform 4 pieces. It’s an incredible experience to perform for almost 600 women from other choruses, and to hear all of their creative, moving, funny, and breathtaking performances.
These choral festivals are held every four years. Artemis hosted in the 1980’s and then again in 2010. Hmm, maybe you would like to take part in a festival like this. Join Artemis now and you can be a part of it all in 2022!
More Than Music – Pride Concert & Dance
Saturday, June 9, 2018
artwork by Mary Ellen Burns
Artemis Singers is about more than music. We sing music written or arranged by women. That is what we do. We work to effect positive change in cultural attitudes toward women and women artists, as well as to increase the visibility of lesbian feminists. In doing that, we explore the roots of who we are as women, as lesbians, as feminists. That in turn often leads us to themes of peace, community building, and social justice. This concert featured those important themes and included a reading by guest poet, e nina jay, author of Body of Rooms. And then we danced!! With DJ OCD at the mixer.
Location: First Unitarian Church of Chicago, 5650 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago
Rise Up! events featuring special guest artist Melanie DeMore
Saturday, January 13, 2018
- Using Your Voice for Change workshop, 10am-3pm, with Melanie DeMore. Workshop participants were invited to perform with Melanie on several songs during the evening performance.
- Rise Up! concert, 7pm, Artemis Singers and Melanie DeMore. Be inspired to make change in the world. You are powerful, my sister.
Location: Evanston Township High School – 1600 Dodge Avenue, Evanston, IL.
Family of Friends – Pride concert & dance
Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 7:00 pm
We presented a positive, upbeat concert celebrating families and friends. Co-hosted by Affinity Community Services.
First Unitarian Church of Chicago, 5650 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago
Press Release for Family of Friends
Wanting the Music – an original musical celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
So.much.fun. We had over 500 people from 17 states and provinces joining us to remember MichFest. Besides having an original script and 6 original songs, the chorus sang pieces from beloved Michigan artists, and we also had a craftswomyn area, wristbands, T-shirts (still a few available–contact us!), and bare-breasted festie-goers (you are the BEST audience ever)! A Choral Musical of the Michigan Festival
Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 7:00 pm & Sunday, January 29, 2017 at 1:30 pm. Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N Knox Ave, Chicago.
Press Release for Wanting the Music
Voices of Joyful Rebellion Pride Concert & Dance
Saturday, June 11, 2016, at Broadway United Methodist, Chicago
Saturday, June 18, 2016, cohosted by Affinity Community Services at First Unitarian, Chicago
We presented songs of rebellion, including “Goddesses’ Rage” by Chicago composer Paula Walowitz, the source of our concert title: “This violation of all that is holy must stop. It’s gone on too long. Voices of joyful rebellion are swelling. The power of life is again growing strong.”
Joyful Rebellion Press Release
Wildest Dreams Concert
If we were only limited by our imaginations, where would we go?
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie
Proud to Be . . . Me! Concert & Dance
June 6, 2015, at Broadway United Methodist, 3338 N. Broadway Street, Chicago, IL 60657.
June 13, 2015, at Beverly Unitarian Church, 10244 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago, IL 60643. Benefit for Affinity Community Services, a social justice organization that serves LGBTQ and Black communities.
Loves Lost, Loves Found
February 6 & 7, 2015, at Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 Lincoln Ave, Skokie.
Women in Music Concert
November 16, 2014. Artemis Singers performed at the Lakeside Pride Symphonic Band concert, with celebrity guest emcee Lea DeLaria, at Preston Bradley Center, Chicago. See coverage in press.
Sister Singers Network Festival: Returning to Our Roots
Friday, July 25, 2014, at University of Illinois, Krannert Center for Performing Arts, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
A Feminist Mosaic Pride Concert and Dance
May 31, 2014, at Broadway United Methodist, Chicago. Feminist Mosaic Press Release
Chicago Loop Pedway Concert
December 21, 2013, at Holiday Hub, Block 37, 108 N. State Street, Chicago. PRESS RELEASE
A Midwinter Night’s Journey
A journey into the longest night – songs of the Winter Solstice
December 6 & 7, 2013, at Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 Lincoln Ave, Skokie. PRESS RELEASE
Illinois Marriage Equality Bill Signing
November 20, 2013, at University of Illinois at Chicago-Forum.
March on Springfield for Marriage Equality
October 21, 2013, at Illinois State Capitol, Springfield, Illinois.
Amazon Women Rise! Pride Concert and Dance
June 1, 2013, at Broadway United Methodist, Chicago. PRESS RELEASE
Many Voices Create the Song
January 19, 2013, at Ethical Humanist Society, 7574 Lincoln Ave, Skokie. PRESS RELEASE
Girls’ Night Out Pride Concert and Dance
Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Broadway United Methodist, Chicago. PRESS RELEASE
Near and Far
Saturday, January 11, 2012, at Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago.
Shall We Dance Pride Concert and Dance
Saturday, June 11, 2011, at Broadway United Methodist, Chicago.
Art by Nicky Joice.
Our Kind of Sound: Artemis Singers Turns 30!
December 4, 2010, at Skokie Theatre.
Our Kind of Sound: Sister Singers Network 10th National Women’s Choral Festival
June 30-July 5, 2010, hosted by Artemis Singers at Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus.
Artemis Singers: Sampler
March 4, 2010, at Sulzer Public Library.
Artemis Singers: A Girl Meets Girls Musical
with original script by Loraine Edwalds
June 20, 2009, at COS Episcopal Church.
Peace, Freedom, & Justice Concert
with Tricia Alexander and Diana Laffey
December 6, 2008, at Berry United Methodist Church.
Chicago Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame: Induction of Artemis Singers!
December 13, 2008, at Chicago Cultural Center.
Chicago Pride: Sounds of Our City
with Karen Mooney & Friends
June 13, 2008, at Harold Washington Public Library.
Womensing: A Journey Through the History of Women and Song
June 21, 2008, at Berry United Methodist Church.
Hallowe’en Samhain Concert
October 20, 2007, Kindred Hearts, St. James Presbyterian.
Songs of the Seventies
March 3, 2007, at Kindred Hearts, St. James Presbyterian.
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