LONDON CHORUS SWEET ADELINES
We are a vibrant group of women of all ages who LOVE to sing four-part a capella harmony. Founded in 1954, we represent the London Chapter of Sweet Adelines Inc., and are part of Border Lakes Region 2, which encompasses Southwestern Ontario and Northern Michigan.
Each spring, worldwide regional competitions are held and London Chorus has won first place seven times! We have competed internationally in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Portland, Indianapolis, Houston, Honolulu, Las Vegas, St Louis and Louisville.
We accept paid singing engagements, and also provide community service through selected benefit performances. We have performed for the Heart & Stroke Difference Makers Luncheon, the Country Classic Auction raising money for LHSC, OnStage for WAYS, at a London Childrens Connection Child Care program and have even welcomed new Canadians with our rendition of O Canada during a citizenship ceremony!
OUR MISSION
The London Chorus is part of the Sweet Adelines International organization. We are an innovative and diverse group of women sharing joy and celebrating every era and genre of music in a capella barbershop harmony through education, performance and competition. We inspire, support and love each other, connecting our hearts together.
SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL
Sweet Adelines is a worldwide organization of singers committed to advancing the musical art form of barbershop harmony through education and performances. Our nonprofit corporation was founded in 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where our international headquarters is located. We have approximately 21,000 members in the United States, Canada, Australia, England, Finland, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden and the Netherlands making us one of the worlds largest singing organizations for women!
DIVERSITY, EQUITY and INCLUSION
Sweet Adelines International openly recognizes our racist history, a past that saw the organization ban membership for women of color from 1958 to 1966. It is an ugly truth we acknowledged at our 2016 convention, and since then we have worked — in videos and in The Pitch Pipe — to educate our members about this truth and how we are working to use the history as a catalyst for our inclusion and equity work of today. We believe it’s important to be clear about what happened in the past, because racism and discrimination were unacceptable then and they are something we will not tolerate now.
We are taking steps NOW to make this an organization that celebrates our differences and makes ALL its members feel welcomed. We’re doing that in many ways, from the creation of our Diversity and Inclusion Task Force to the development of a comprehensive toolkit that soon will be available as a resource for chapters to give members the tools they need to help welcome members who come from different ethnic and racial backgrounds, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people from varied religions.
Sweet Adelines International is committed to addressing and condemning racism, discrimination, and other forms of inequity not only with our words but with our actions.
