Out & Loud Choirs

Welcome to the Out & Loud Choirs’ website showcasing LGBTIQ+ choirs from across Australia and New Zealand and from Fiji and Timor Leste. You can find basic information about each choir including rehearsal times with links to their websites, their upcoming concerts as well as larger joint events and future LGBTIQ+ Choral Festivals both in our region and overseas. The Resources page has links to material choirs can share to improve our singing experience.

Australasian LGBTIQ+ Choral Festivals have had a proud history starting in 2001 in Sydney with ‘Camp Music’ followed by Melbourne hosting the first Out & Loud in 2007. Since then Out & Loud Choral Festivals have been held in Auckland twice (2010 & 2016), Hobart (2013) and most recently in Canberra in 2019.

The 2019 four day Out & Loud Choral Festival in Canberra had over 300 singers from 9 LGBTIQ+ choirs from Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin, Sydney, Auckland, Fiji, Perth,Timor Leste and Canberra.  Guest Conductor Stephen Leek guided us through 3 massed choral pieces : 'Stronger Together' (specially commissioned for the Festival from Sally Whitwell), 'Blue Skies' and 'Fall on me' performed at Llewellyn Hall to a packed house.  All choirs performed free public concerts to hundreds of spectators at iconic venues : the National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery and Museum of Australian Democracy.  Social and cultural events formed a core part of the Festival connecting singers with each other and the broader queer community. These photos capture the joy of the Festival.

Out and Loud is keen to include information from all LGBTIQ+ choirs across Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific region.

Banner photo courtesy Peter Hislop, Canberra