SEATTLE – Seattle Men’s Chorus (SMC) and Seattle Women’s Chorus (SWC) return to the stage for the 2025-26 season with five brand-new concerts, which will treat audiences to holiday magic, the importance of legacy, a yellow-brick road celebration, and more.
The new season will feature performances across Seattle, along with select shows in Tacoma, Everett, and Bellingham to reach audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Also, back by popular demand, is a special holiday kids’ show perfect for short attention spans, plus the choruses will again offer streaming passes for their three mainstage shows, which also allow for viewing following the performance.
“We bring joy to our audiences, and this season we bring it in abundance! We kick off the season with the Seattle Men’s Chorus holiday show, which features everything Seattle audiences know and love about this tradition,” said Paul Caldwell, artistic director for Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus. “This season, the Seattle Women’s Chorus will sing songs themed around legacy. Our spring show will have you dancing down the yellow-brick road with the Seattle Men’s Chorus as they sing songs from Wicked, The Wiz, and The Wizard of Oz, and both choruses will have special performances just for Pride Month.”
Holly Jolly Jingle: Seattle Men’s Chorus Holiday Show
SMC rings in everyone’s favorite holiday tradition featuring seasonal classics, Christmas comedy, costumes, dancing, and the gayest sing-along in Seattle. This year, SMC will also premiere the NOTcracker Suite — a five-minute rendition of the holiday staple featuring hilarious lyrics, props, and antics you expect from the Seattle Men’s Chorus during the hollyest, jolliest time of the year!
Friday, Dec. 5, 2025 7:30 p.m. Pantages Theater, Tacoma
Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025 2 p.m. Everett Civic Auditorium, Everett
Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025 1 p.m. Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Friday, Dec. 19, 2025 2 p.m. Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025 11 a.m. Kids’ Show – Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025 2 p.m. Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025 7:30 p.m. Benaroya Hall, Seattle*
Tickets available at SeattleChoruses.org.
*Streaming Pass available for purchase of this performance available through January 6, 2026.
Legacy: Seattle Women’s Chorus Concert
Seattle Women’s Chorus welcomes resident conductor Beth Ann Bonnecroy to the podium this season. This concert will explore the theme of women’s legacies on the environment, family, and community with music from female, BIPOC, trans, and non-binary composers. SWC will be among the first groups to perform Moira Smiley’s newest anthem, We Are Timeless celebrating queer experience and queer joy. “We are timeless, boundless, we are far, we are near. We are alive beyond the poison of fear. We are all stronger when we are open and true. You with me, me with you.”
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026 7:30 p.m. Benaroya Recital Hall, Seattle
Sunday, March 1, 2026 2 p.m. Benaroya Recital Hall, Seattle*
Tickets now available at SeattleChoruses.org.
*Streaming Pass available for this performance.
Wicked Wiz of Oz: Seattle Men’s Chorus Concert
There’s no place like a Seattle Men’s Chorus show! Seattle Men’s Chorus celebrates all the versions of Oz: Wicked, The Wiz, and The Wizard of Oz. Jam-packed with mashups: Defying Gravity with Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Dancing Through Life with If I Only Had a Brain; Ease on Down the Road with Follow the Yellow Brick Road. Singing, dancing, costumes, videos — all under the most colorful rainbow ever.
Saturday, April 19, 2026 2 p.m. Everett Civic Auditorium, Everett Sunday, May 3, 2026 3 p.m. Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham
Saturday, May 9, 2026 8 p.m. Benaroya Hall, Seattle*
Sunday, May 16, 2026 3 p.m. Pantages Theater, Tacoma
Tickets now available at SeattleChoruses.org.
*Streaming Pass available for this performance.
Sing Along, Seattle!: Seattle Men’s Chorus Concert & Audience Sing-Along
Come out and sing along with the Seattle Men’s Chorus as they bring their famous holiday sing-along to Pride Month. This joyful community tradition gets a colorful makeover, blending beloved sing-along favorites with an inclusive, celebratory twist in the spirit of Pride.
Sunday, June 14, 2026 2 p.m. & 5 p.m. Neptune Theatre, Seattle
Tickets now available at SeattleChoruses.org.
SWC Cabaret: Seattle Women’s Chorus Concert
Members of Seattle Women’s Chorus bring their voices together for an intimate Pride performance filled with love songs and empowering anthems. This special event offers audiences a chance to experience the beauty and strength of choral music up close. With heartfelt melodies and messages of unity, the chorus celebrates love in all its forms.
Saturday, June 20, 2026 5 p.m. & 7 p.m. Erickson Theatre, Seattle
Tickets now available at SeattleChoruses.org.
“This season offers something for longtime fans as well as new audiences,” said Craig Coogan, executive director of the Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus. “The choruses are known for performing music that makes a difference which will leave you entertained, inspired, and full of joy. And who doesn’t need a little more joy these days?”
This year’s media sponsors include KIRO 7, The Seattle Times, The Stranger, and radio stations MOViN 92.5, KIXI-AM880, and WARM 106.9.
About Seattle Men’s Chorus – Seattle Women’s Chorus
The internationally renowned Seattle Men’s Chorus (founded in 1979) and Seattle Women’s Chorus (founded in 2002) together make one of the largest community choral organizations in North America, and stand out among the largest LGBTQ-identified choruses in the world. Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus comprise one of the Pacific Northwest’s most vibrant music organizations, performing in Seattle’s most prestigious venues for an annual audience of more than 15,000 patrons across the Puget Sound and hundreds of thousands online. Collectively, there are more than 400 singing members, along with staff and volunteers who support both Seattle Men’s Chorus and Seattle Women’s Chorus. They are a leading voice for the LGBTQ+ community and offer both outreach events and mainstage concert performances annually.
Author: Lynnwood Times Staff
