Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) is proud to present “A Super Gay Christmas,” to kick off the holiday season! Performances are on Dec. 7 as part of Holly Folly in Provincetown, and on Dec. 15, 20, 21, and 22 at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston. The...
A year ago this month we landed in South Africa to learn that Melvin Naik, the mayor of George—where we would be performing a free community concert and participating in the city’s first-ever Pride parade—had gone onto a popular Christian radio program to declare...
Encore is BGMC's signature fundraiser! Our gala is all about having fun and supporting the Chorus. Edge says "If there's one benefit to go to, this is it.” This year we celebrate Accompanist and Ass't Music Director Chad Weiricks' 25th Anniversary with a Mad Hatter...
The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus (BGMC) announces today that it raised $38,000 to benefit South African organizations serving LGBTQ people and those living with HIV. The money was raised through cash donations and ticket sales for concerts performed during its South...
A few months before our trip to South Africa, Dr. LeWana Clark, who has been the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus’s American Sign Language interpreter since 1989, was in touch with leaders at the Kliptown Youth Program. With the number of children and teens living in...
JOHANNESBURG, June 14, 2018—Our day started with a slight jet lag fog and an early start. The hotel breakfast was full and bountiful with both traditional and non traditional offerings. The funniest moment of the morning was watching my partner’s expression change...
by Peter Kokoszka JOHANNESBURG, June 16, 2018—These first couple of days of our South Africa tour have helped to deepen my understanding of the rich very recent history of this country and also broaden my thoughts on how many of the songs in our program overlap in...
by Dana Hoare-Travaglini SOWETO, June 15, 2018—Today we traveled to Soweto to visit Kliptown and met some of the beneficiaries of our first concert at Soweto Theatre tonight. Kliptown is a section of Soweto for the poor—homes are DIY, no electricity, running water...
On June 14, we visited the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Opened in 2001, the museum walks visitors through the history of South Africa’s violent system of state-sanctioned racial discrimination and segregation and the many decades of struggle to overthrow the...
by Jim Newman How was our first day in South Africa? AMAZING! It took a long time to get here but it was worth it! We left Boston at 11pm on Monday and arrived in JoBurg at about noon on Wednesday. As we were leaving the airport, we were greeted by two local...
