Sing the Body: Queer Vocal Festival

Get ready for this powerful convergence of identity, music, community and resistance at Sing the Body: Queer Vocal Festival, a groundbreaking celebration of queer voices and vocal artistry.

Produced by Elias Wolf and Queer Choir Collective, this first-of-its-kind festival is uplifting our bodies as instruments for healing, liberation, transformation, love and of course, singing!

Sing the Body features an unapologetically genre-defying line-up of queer, trans, Black and brown artists. Hosted by local black queer poet and musical artist Jalen Thompson, the event will also feature PDX-based trans opera singer, Katherine Goforth; Afro-Indigenous poet songwriter Kiara Mctear; black queer and trans neo-soul artist zurray!; queer singer-songwriter and choir director elias wolf; and our headlining artist, DC-based queer pop composer and live looper, Be Steadwell – all backed by Eugene’s 40+-person intergenerational Queer Choir and a house band. The concert will also feature Eugene’s gayest new contemporary a cappella group, HomoPhonic, and the next generation of queer voices in RISE Youth A Cappella.

There are two ways to participate in the festival, and Sing the Body offers five price tiers as a way to meet participants where they are in this time of vast economic disparity.

1. Saturday Concert (tickets from $5 – $222): June 14th, 7pm at The Wildish Theater
2. All-Access Festival Pass (tickets from $22 – $555) includes:
– Fri. 7-9pm: Kick-Off Party at Lovely, with singing and community-building
– Sat. 10am-3pm: Experiential Workshops at The Wildish led by Be Steadwell, Katherine Goforth and Elias Wolf
– Sat. 7-9:30pm: Concert at The Wildish feat. our full festival artist line-up
– Sun. 1-3pm: Outdoor Community Sing-In

Sing the Body is open to all, regardless of prior singing experience. 2SLGBTQIA+ and Global Majority folks to the front, but allies and co-conspirators are welcome and needed!

More information and advance registration available at eventcreate.com/e/singthebody

Public · Hosted by Queer Choir Collective