New Wave Singers of Baltimore

10/14/2026

Our Mission: Through songs of hope, diversity, inclusion, and humor, we celebrate all of humanity in its infinite variations and challenge our communities to embrace equality, harmony, and understanding.

10/11/2026

10/08/2026

It's pumpkin spice season, time for lattes, flannels, and planning your December calendar. Save these dates and don't miss our holiday concert!

08/09/2026

We heard the are celebrating an anniversary and couldn't pass up the opportunity to zig a zig ahh with these 2024 memories of Madrigal Wannabe arranged by !

06/08/2026

"None of us should walk out the door and just say 'oh, that was a nice concert.' and forget about it."
-Rosita Stevens-Holsey, niece of Pauli Murray.

What will you do now that you know?

06/07/2026

Sincerely Yours is right on time!

What can we do with this story in 2026?

First, we must hear it - one performance left today at 4 PM!

06/05/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #7:

"Male head, male brain, female-ish body, unbearable pain."

Born Anna Pauline, Murray chose to go by Pauli and struggled with gender dysphoria. Her pleas for gender affirming care including hormone therapy and exploratory surgery were denied by physicians.

How would Pauli have identified today? The Pauli Murray Center acknowledges the fluidity of this question: https://www.paulimurraycenter.com/pronouns-pauli-murray

Performances of "Sincerely Yours, Pauly Murray" begin TOMORROW!

Tickets: https://newwavesingers.org/tickets/

06/05/2026

Composer Steve Milloy LOADED this piece with Easter eggs spanning multiple decades. How many will you catch in "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray?" Find out this weekend!

06/04/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #6:

"Equality for women, equality NOW"

Based on her own experiences, Pauli coined the phrase "Jane Crow" referring to discrimination based on gender and on race.

Murray fought back as one of 12 founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966. Murray is pictured here with co-founder Betty Friedan.

06/03/2026

7 Facts about Pauli Murray in 7 days #5:

The Methodist Church was against segregation and wanted to see if its parishes could disregard local segregation laws, so they asked Pauli to write up an explanation of segregation laws.

She compiled a 746-page book, States’ Laws on Race and Color, that The ACLU distributed to law libraries, HBCUs, and human-rights organizations.

Thurgood Marshall kept stacks of it around the NAACP office and referred to Murray’s work as “the bible” of Brown vs. Board of Education.

Want more Pauli facts? Join us this weekend for the new musical work "Sincerely Yours, Pauli Murray"
Tickets: https://newwavesingers.org/tickets/