Events
Newsflash! We’ll be singing at the SSN 2026 Festival
Bread and Roses is honored — and EXCITED — to be participating in the Sister Singers Network Festival 2026 in our own Chicago, IL. Tickets are available to the general public and the concerts are beautiful and uplifting.

Sister Singers Network 2023, Cleveland, OH
Sister Singers Network
We are so grateful whenever we are able to participate in the Sister Singers Network festivals! These four-day-long events, are hosted every four years by women’s choruses from all over the United States. The schedule got thrown off a bit due to Covid, so the 2026 festival will be only 3 years since the last one, but the rotation should be back on track going forward.
The first day usually incorporates welcome festivities and a kick-off concert by a guest performer. Then, over the next several days, participants attend workshops and rehearsals.
Past workshop topics have included: Director/chorus management, music copyrights, proper singing technique, and even large group drumming circles. Each participating choir will perform their “set” during the chorus performance blocks the last two afternoons/evenings, and the mass choirs perform the final night. Any choir or individual woman who signs up to sing in a mass choir receives the scores ahead of time to learn notes, so they are ready to rehearse “as one” come festival time. The culminating evenings of performances by individual choirs and mass choirs are just breathtaking! We are women’s choirs, singing primarily to women’s choirs – which is such a supportive, encouraging environment. But, tickets are also available to the general public! The entire week is energizing, engaging, and reaffirming for each of us as individuals, and together as a choral unit.
Highlights from our participation in past Sister Singers Festivals
Cleveland, OH 2023
In June of 2023, our chorus was still a little shy of large gatherings of people form all over the United States, so we did not work to send our entire chorus to the festival in Cleveland. However, three of us were able to attend as representatives of our Bread & Roses! We had a blast attending workshops, listening to sister choruses and working with the extremely talented Ayo Awosika as the featured guest composer. It was amazing!
Grand Rapids, MI 2018
We had a great time at the 2018 Sister Singers Festival at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, MI. Key note speakers/performers were Moira Smiley and Ysaye Barnwell! We thoroughly enjoyed hearing all the other choruses perform as much as we enjoyed performing for them.
Champaign-Urbana 2014
Thanks to everyone who donated money and time to help make our participation in the 2014 Sister Singers Network Festival possible, and a most wonderful and memorable experience!!
Interested in joining us?
Our 2025-2026 Concert Dates
2025 Fall semester began August 17. Our chorus is usually no audition, but after our third rehearsal of a semester we will ask prospective singers to audition with our director. Our 2026 Spring semester will begin February 8, 2026.
December, 2026 concert TBA