Did you miss one of our concerts this past weekend? Join on us on June 27th at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church for a special condensed presentation of our latest concert!

Join Asheville’s longest-running women’s chorus at St. Mark’s Lutheran as we sing for joy, social justice, and community. The concert features songs about hope and previews our upcoming performance in Chicago at the Sister Singers Network festival this summer. Listen, sing and sign along, and leave feeling uplifted and inspired!

Supported by the Clergy Renewal Grant, this concert is FREE and open to the public.

Tickets available at the door for the May 16th performance.

Tickets at the door are $25.00.

Does the world have you down? Join Womansong for our Spring concert that uplifts and inspires!  Accompanied by our live band, we’ll sing longtime favorites along with contemporary hits including compositions by our own Lytingale and Martha Burrows.  Singing for joy, social justice and community empowers us – that’s where the hope comes from!

Songs of Joy, Justice & Community

In Celebration of 40 years of Womansong

Womansong is excited to announce a songwriting contest for our 40^th year, to celebrate our mission of “Singing together for Joy, Social Justice, and Community!”

We are now accepting submissions for an original song that celebrates one or more aspects of our mission’s themes. The song will be arranged for and performed by Womansong, Asheville’s premier social justice-oriented, treble-voice, community chorus. Our goal is to support songwriters in our region, as well as to increase the repertoire of choral music by, for, and about women. 

Preference will be given to songwriters and composers living in the Western North Carolina region. The chosen winner will receive a stipend of $1,000 and the opportunity to perform the song with the chorus at our Spring 2027 concerts (usually held in May.)

In addition, we will promote the winning song nationally to other choruses in Sister Singers Network and GALA. Building on the legacy of the powerful women who have come before us, the voices of women* change the world, sending inspiring messages of hope and support through music composed and performed by women.

If desired, the experienced composers in Womansong will offer songwriting mentoring to the winner to polish the song. The songwriter will collaborate on (or simply approve) the choral arrangement (and accompaniment) of the winning song. The songwriter will retain ownership of the song (granting Womansong the right to arrange, perform, and possibly record it.) 

Submission guidelines:

• Submit by October 1, 2026.
• Winner will be announced in early November 2026. 
• Premiere performance will be at our May 2027 concerts in Asheville.
• Songwriters who identify with the women’s experience and are based in the Western North Carolina region qualify.
• There is no fee for submissions.
• You may submit up to 3 songs.
• Submit as a full song(s) between 2-6 minutes in length (melody with lyrics accepted).
• Please submit a lyric sheet along with a simple audio recording (cell phone recordings are fine) and/or sheet music notation. We can not accept any video that might identify the songwriter. We are judging the song, not the production, but we do need to clearly hear the lyrics and melody.
• Knowledge of music theory and/or arranging is not necessary.
• Songwriter is not responsible for arranging the song for treble chorus, but pre-arranged song submissions are accepted.
• Song will be selected on various criteria, but especially on how well it expresses one or more of the values and themes of Singing Together for Joy, Social Justice, and Community.
• Judging will be done “blind” (no knowledge of who is submitting) by a panel from Womansong.

Submit questions and/or completed songs to: womansongcontest@gmail.com

Thank you and good luck!

*We define the words woman/women as being gender-expansive, denoting people who identify as a woman and as gender-nonconforming or transgender.

Does the world have you down? Join Womansong for our Spring concert that uplifts and inspires!  Accompanied by our live band, we’ll sing longtime favorites along with contemporary hits including compositions by our own Lytingale and Martha Burrows.  Singing for joy, social justice and community empowers us – that’s where the hope comes from!

Mark your calendars and plan to attend a concert on Friday, May 15 @ 7p or Saturday, May 16 @ 3p.  We look forward to seeing you there! 

TODAY IS OUR EP RELEASE PARTY!

We look forward to seeing you tonight to celebrate our recent EP Release, The Echo Mountain Session. This is a rescheduled event due to the snowstorm that occurred earlier in the year. We are so excited to share this awesome experience with you. See you at The Mule at 6:30! Bring your friends and neighbors! No Cover! More info below….

The EP Release Party is almost upon us! If you forgot to mark your calendar (oops!), mark it now for this Friday and join us for our EP Release Party! And what a party!!! See the specifics below and be sure to come and hang with us!

Here’s a sneak peak of what you will see and hear this Friday!

Just a tap on the shoulder that our EP Release Party is rescheduled for March 13th at 6:30p! We are looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Mark your calendars! Our EP Release Party has been rescheduled! See below for all the fun information about the event and be sure to come out to celebrate with us!

Unfortunately, we have to postpone our EP Release Party, The Echo Mountain Session, scheduled for today January 30th due to inclement weather. We continue to be extremely grateful for you and your support! Stay tuned for a reschedule date.