Mission: To present high quality and exciting musical performances, create a safe and supporting social environment, and be ambassadors for the LGBT community in Halifax and throughout Nova Scotia.
"Our new chorus will join a family of Canadian LGBTQ2 chorus when Unison, Canada's LGBTQ2 choir festival takes place in Halifax in 2022"
HGMC now regularly sells out both our Don We Now Our Gay Apparel seasonal concert and our spring concert. In 2023 HGMC and The Women Next Door cohosted the Unison Festival in Halifax bringing together over 600 singers from 14 chorus across Canada. HGMC rehearsed on Thursday evenings September to June with open rehearsals for new member during the first two weeks of September and January. For more information contact membership@hgmc.ca
History
- October 30, 2018
- "Gay men needed: new chorus starting up in Halifax" article in The ChronicleHerald with quotes from [[TimCross?|Tim Callahan-Cross]]. "Five men are trying to put the project together. "
- 2018
- In November, 2018 a committee was formed to work toward starting a gay male chorus in Halifax. TimCross?, Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Choral Federation met with BryanCrocker?, RobertMillar?, GaryWilliams?, and GrahamBolton? with the intention of starting a chorus. An interest session was organized at the Halifax Public Library to guage interest and to our delight over 65 men showed up and most expressed interest in being part of a chorus.
- January, 2019
- Formally founded by TimCross?, BryanCrocker?, and accompanyist Heather Fraser.
- February, 2019
- We had established and registered Halifax Gay Men's Chorus Society as a not for profit organization, secured a conductor, Bryan Crocker, and accompanist, Heather Fraser, established a Board of Directors, found a rehearsal space and the rest is history.
- HGMC's first performance was as guests of the Aeolian singers, barely 2 months after our first rehearsal. "I'll never forget the overwhelming applause and standing ovation we received as we took to the stage. It was one of the most exciting moments I've experienced". Tim Cross, Founding President. JJ Lyon, during our post concert debriefing said "I was surprised anyone came to hear us. It was so long ago that we wouldn't have much of an audience."
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