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Winnipeg is known across Canada for the music it creates and for its exceptional number of singers and choirs, so fittingly, the Winnipeg Arts Council will celebrate our city’s 150th anniversary through a year of song.

Featuring the best of our community spirit and artistic excellence, City of Song is a showcase for the best of Winnipeg’s local talents, with guest performers from across Canada, and countless opportunities for Winnipeggers to engage in the power of singing with friends and neighbours across the city.

The Winnipeg Arts Council is partnering with dozens of Winnipeg music and performing arts organizations to include elements of choral music in their season programming throughout 2024. Some of the partners and performers included in City of Song include

Agassiz Music Festival
All the King's Men
All Saints Anglican Church Choir
Les Blés au vent
Canzona
La Chorale des Intrépides
Cluster Festival
CMU Music faculty and students
Crescent Arts Centre
Dead of Winter
Dominion Sanctuary Parish Nigerian Choir
Dry Cold Productions
ECCO Singers
École Taché
Flipside Opera
Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg
Hanfeng Chinese Choir
Joie de Vivre
Kidz to Grannies
Les Blés au Vent
The Little Opera Company
Manitoba Chinese Choir
Manitoba Choral Association
Manitoba Opera
Manitoba Underground Opera
Momoko Matsumura & Ensemble
Musica Singers Filipino Choir
Nuovoce Chamber Choir
O. Koshetz Ukrainian Choir
Oberih Ukrainian Choir
Prairie Voices Inc. Choirs
Proximus 5
Rainbow Harmony Project
The Riel Gentlemen’s Choir
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre
Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Sonolux
Stradbrook Avenue Show Choir
Unique Quintet
The Village Conservatory for Music Theatre
Virtuosi Concerts
Westminster United Church Choir
Winnipeg Baroque Festival
Winnipeg Boys Choir
Winnipeg Conservatory of Music
Winnipeg Folk Festival
Winnipeg International Children's Festival
Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Winnipeg Music Festival
Winnipeg Nurses Choir
Winnipeg Singers
Winnipeg Sonora Voices
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Winnipeg Youth Chorus
Women in Music Canada
World Village Music
Zoongi Ogichidaa Anishinaabe Ikwezensag Nagamoog
(Strong Anishinaabe Warrior Girls' Choir)

Be sure to bookmark the City of Song events page which is being updated regularly, all year long!

Funding assistance for City of Song has been provided by the Manitoba government, the Government of Canada, and Che Anne Loewen. The Winnipeg Arts Council acknowledges the contribution by Trudy Schroeder of Arts & Heritage Solutions to early discussions about this project. Her research was supported by the CP Loewen Foundation and the Winnipeg Arts Council.