Sounds Good Choir

We’re delighted to announce that we’re turning 10 this year! In honor of our 10^th Anniversary, we’re kicking off the celebration by dedicating the repertoire for the 2026 Spring Session to eight of the most beloved songs our choirs have performed since we began back in 2016.

You’ll cross musical genres, tempos and lyrical styles with this program handpicked by conductors Linda Crabtree Powell and Sounds Good Choir co-founder and artistic director, Jonathan Miller. There’s jazz: the easy, swinging hooks of “Fly Me to the Moon” and (jazz hands or no), the iconic “And All That Jazz”—the opening number from the Broadway musical, “Chicago.” The songbook includes “Lux Aeterna,” a traditional Gregorian chant from the Requiem Mass set to beautiful melodic effect in Tom Porter’s arrangement. Then you’ll learn the haunting English ballad, “Scarborough Fair,” and a traditional spiritual, “I’m Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sing, performed with four-hand accompaniment on piano. From Aaron Copland’s “Old American Songs,” you’ll master the gentle, treasured hymn, “At the River.” All that and we’ll be singing favorites “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” and “Big House.”

Join a choir this spring and you’ll have so much fun learning and rehearsing this music and then entertaining our appreciative audiences at the end of the session in our free concerts.

Learn more about the 2026 repertoire and schedule.

You’ll also discover and enjoy the warm and supportive Sounds Good community of other adults 55 “and better” who love to have fun and sing.

Our professional conductors are experts in the training of the older adult voice, and each week they lead a fun and lively, 90-minute practice session, including vocal warmups, breathing exercises, as you learn and practice each song. So join a Sounds Good choir… learn beautiful music, make new friends, have a wonderful time!

Spring Choir Locations:

Arlington Heights
Edgewater
Evanston
Gold Coast: Good Memories
Gold Coast: Sounds Good
Hinsdale
Hyde Park
Oak Park/River Forest
Wheaton/Glen Ellyn

Cost: $210 registration fee

Fee includes sheet music, professional direction, concerts, online practice tracks, and concerts. All singers registered for a session are welcome to rehearse and perform with as many choirs as they choose, as often as they like. In addition, every Friday during the session, one of our professional conductors holds an optional, online rehearsal for singers from all choirs.

*Reduced tuition is available and confidential; contact Sounds Good at 630.395.9542 or info@soundsgoodchoir.org.

Come sing with us!

No auditions, no experience necessary!

Just come and have fun singing. Our professional conductors will help you be the best singer you can be, and you’ll be surprised at how many new people you’ll meet.

Fall and Spring Sessions

During our 15-week sessions in the fall and spring, we offer 9 choirs in eight locations: Sounds Good (Arlington Heights, Edgewater/Lakeview, Evanston, Gold Coast, Hinsdale, Hyde Park, Oak Park/River Forest, Wheaton/Glen Ellyn) and Good Memories (Gold Coast). Both the Gold Coast choirs—Sounds Good and Good Memories (for adults with memory loss and their care partners to sing together)—rehearse and perform downtown at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in the Gold Coast. The Evanston Sounds Good choir is dementia friendly.

Summer Sessions

During our 8-week Summer Rocks session, we offer 5 choirs in 4 locations:

Gold Coast
Oak Park/River Forest
Northbrook
Hinsdale

Both the Gold Coast choirs rehearse and perform downtown at the Fourth Presbyterian Church on Chestnut Street. The Northbrook Sounds Good choir is dementia friendly.

Both the Gold Coast Sounds Good choir and the Good Memories choir (for adults with early-stage dementia and their care partners) rehearse and perform downtown at the Fourth Presbyterian Church in the Gold Coast. The Northbrook Sounds Good choir is dementia friendly.