Music connects us with hope and with each other - and right now we need both!

This spring we’re singing the music of Moira Smiley, Aurora, Lea Morris, Melanie DeMore and others. Join us for nourishment and uplift!

Both concerts are ASL interpreted. There is an accessible entrance to the right of the main front door on S. College St. If you need further accommodations, please let us know at info@calliopefeministchoir.org by May 7.

We accept donations on a sliding scale:

Basic - $10-30

Community-supported - less than $10

Supporting - $30-50*

*Donating at this level allows a community member to pay what they can to share this experience.

RESERVATIONS ARE CLOSED -

JUST COME TO THE DOOR, WE’LL BE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU!

Concert donations will be shared with a local Athens County organization that offers support and community to our LGBTQ+ youth.

Photos from the November 2024 concerts taken by Claira Tokarz

Water heal my body, water heal my soul!

When I go down, down to the water,

by the water I feel whole...   

~Coco Love Alcorn

This fall Calliope is thinking and singing about water: our relationship to water, having enough water, what it means to care for the water. We started thinking about water before we knew the words "exceptional drought" or imagined the destruction of Hurricane Helene, and it's been a powerful meditation as we navigate a world that asks us to be water - flow, adapt, find a new path, nourish, change shape. 

Water is LIFE!

Come hear songs by Joni Mitchell, Moira Smiley, Merrill Garbus, Coco Love Alcorn, local singers/songwriters Molly & Brynn Sowash and others as we celebrate this element so essential to our lives!

Calliope is grateful to the Ohio Arts Council for funding during our 2024-2025 season!

One singer acknowledges another, both dressed in purple, with smiles.

Calliope Spring Concert 2024

photos by Brian Scharfenberg

Drummer Rachel Ballinger played a djembe on loan from the Instrument Lending Library at the Federal Valley Resource Center. What an amazing resource!

Please check them out.

Calliope is grateful for funding for our 2023-2024 season from the Ohio Arts Council.

Calliope’s Fall 2023 Concert: A Place by the Fire for Everyone

Photos by Molly Schoenhoff

Photos from

Where the Light Begins, May 2023 concert

by Brian Scharfenberg

Photos from

CALLIOPE’S WINTER CONCERT, January 2023

by Brian Scharfenberg

Singers at the front of a church, holding binders, wearing masks
A woman smiles, sitting at a piano
Singers wearing purple and masks hold binders and look toward the director
A woman wearing glasses gestures in ASL in front of a choir of singers wearing purple, holding black binders
Singers wearing purple stand at the front of a church. They wear masks, except for one woman who appears to be speaking.
Singers look to the left, holding binders in one hand, and gesturing with their other hand, as if blowing across their palms.
A woman with long white hair stands with her back to the camera, facing a choir of singers holding black binders and holding a hand over their heart.
Singers wearing masks and holding binders stand behind a woman without a mask, who sings with her eyes closed.
A woman dressed in black gestures in sign language in the foreground. Behind her stands a choir of singers dressed in many shades of purple
A choir wearing shades of purple and black masks stands behind a woman speaking at a podium
A woman wearing a purple shirt gestures strongly with arm raised and finger pointing to the ceiling. Behind her stands a choir of singers wearing purple.

Photography by Brian Scharfenberger