Portland Community Chorus

Portland Community Chorus

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After a decade of dormancy, the group was reorganized in 1978 by Joel Hayden, and was incorporated as a non-profit organization in the early 1980s.

The Portland Community Chorus has a heritage dating back to the 1950s and 1960s, when it performed under the direction of Paul Vermel with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The group has expanded steadily over the last 20 years, and now consists of over 150 singers as annual members. Since 1978 the Chorus has been directed by Joel Hayden, Stewart Shuster, Daniel Junkin, Judith Hunt Quimby, Rob West

Photos from Portland Community Chorus's post 05/19/2026

The 2026 Annual Banquet was a triumph, with outstanding attendance, exquisite food, and abundant entertainment. PCC's efficient machine, driven by the Board and volunteers, has delivered yet another successful year.

05/15/2026

Join our Artistic Director at Ferry Beach this summer for Sopranos and Altos - One week only: "We Harbor One Another"
A Women’s Choral Festival at Ferry Beach

Set beside the ocean during Ferry Beach’s 125th anniversary celebration of Universal Love, this week-long women’s choral festival explores the ways we care for, strengthen, and uplift one another through music.

Through songs of courage, joy, ancestry, resilience, belonging, and hope, singers will gather in community to celebrate the many ways women carry light for each other across generations and across life’s changing tides. From the fierce independence of I Am My Mother’s Savage Daughter and Wild Embers, to the compassion of Would You Harbor Me and Be the Bridge, this repertoire honors both the fire within us and the shelter we create together.

Ocean imagery flows throughout the program — harbors, tides, stones, stars, and waves become metaphors for connection, healing, and shared humanity. Together, these songs invite us to reflect on what it means to be welcomed, witnessed, empowered, and loved.

In a world that can feel fragmented and uncertain, We Harbor One Another offers space for renewal, authenticity, laughter, reflection, and collective song by the sea.
REGISTER TODAY.

05/04/2026
04/30/2026

ONE MORE DAY!
This concert will invite you to reflect on your own connection to this land, and to one another. To consider not only where we’ve been, but where we’re going—and how we move forward together with empathy, respect, and hope.

04/28/2026

Make sure this is on your Calendar for this coming weekend!

04/23/2026

This Land Was Made for You and Me
Through song, PCC will reflect on where we come from, who we include, and how we take care of this house-together.

Friday May 1, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday May 2, 2:00 p.m.
South Portland High School Auditorium
Suggested Donation $15.00 at the Door or through our website.
https://www.portlandcommunitychorus.org/events.html

04/20/2026

PCC will perform "The Promise of Living": Aaron Copland's quintessential masterpiece celebrating the spirit of the land and community.Copland was known for defining the American sound in classical music.
Friday, May 1 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, May 2 2:00 p.m.
South Portland High School Auditorium
Suggested donation. $15.00

Photos from Portland Community Chorus's post 04/17/2026

Come listen to and sing with us.
Friday May 1, 7:00 p.m
Saturday May 2. 2:00 p.m.
South Portland High School Auditorium

Suggested donation $15.00 at the door
or through our website
https://www.portlandcommunitychorus.org/

04/16/2026

Join us for a concert that explores America as a shared home—rooted in land, shaped by voices, tested by conscience, and sustained by our willingness to care for one
another. Compositions by Copland, Bernstein, and Dylan.
Friday May 1, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday May 2, 2:00 p.m.
South Portland High School Auditorium
Suggested donation $15.00

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Portland, ME
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