Sounds Good Choir

Sounds Good Choir The Chicago area’s largest
no-audition choral organization for adults 55+. Sounds Good! We don't card... if you're under 55 you're welcome to join us! Joseph).

Nine choirs in 8 locations, including Good Memories, a choir for adults with memory loss & their care partners. Choir is the Chicago area's largest choral-music organization for older adults. Currently, during the pandemic when we are staying safe by singing online, Sounds Good serves more than 250 singers in online rehearsals, virtual choirs,"coffee chats" for social time, and enrichment classes

in vocal technique and musicianship. Sounds Good Choir (SGC) offers two primary program areas:

(1) the Sounds Good Choir, a non-auditioned ensemble for adults 55 "and better." Sounds Good generally sings challenging and fun four-part (SATB) repertoire with piano. Rehearsals are held during the weekday. There is no audition. (2) the Good Memories Choir for people with early-stage memory loss, their care partners, and singing volunteers. Good Memories typically sings SAB or 3-part mixed arrangements of mostly familiar and beloved melodies. This program includes a new offering, the the online Good Memories Sing-Along Cafe, which is purely a sing-along and does not involve using sheet music. Sounds Good's professional music staff is led by the co-founders -- artistic director/CEO Jonathan Miller, a veteran professional singer/conductor and choral entrepreneur, and Sandy Siegel Miller, director of the Good Memories program. The conductors and pianists on SCG's music staff are specialists in the aging voice. These master teachers provide instruction in vocal technique and breathing as well as overall musicianship and expressiveness. See our complete staff roster at www.soundsgoodchoir/staff-and-board/

Before the pandemic, SGC offered in-person choirs in 8 Chicago-area locations:
Hyde Park
Gold Coast
Oak Park/River Forest
Wheaton/Glen Ellyn
Evanston
Arlington Heights
Hinsdale
Lemont/Homer Glen
and a new choir in Southwest Michigan (St. When in person, Good Memories has choir locations on the Gold Coast and in Evanston. Sounds Good Choir, NFP is a not-for-profit Illinois corporation and is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. In addition to program revenues, we are supported by generous individuals as well as government and foundation grants and corporate philanthropy.

FOX-32 spoke to Lynn Clark, SGC Board Chair, live today about Good Memories choir and its spring concert next Tuesday, M...
04/30/2026

FOX-32 spoke to Lynn Clark, SGC Board Chair, live today about Good Memories choir and its spring concert next Tuesday, May 5, at 12:15 downtown Chicago at Fourth Presbyterian Church. https://youtu.be/i18X52FrLW0. Watch!

Local choir brings together people with early memory loss

Co-founder and Artistic Director, Jonathan Miller, looks back on 10 years of Sounds Good. https://soundsgoodchoir.org/20...
04/29/2026

Co-founder and Artistic Director, Jonathan Miller, looks back on 10 years of Sounds Good. https://soundsgoodchoir.org/2026/04/28/happy-anniversary/ Celebrate our 10th Anniversary at one of our Spring Choral Concerts, starting with our Oak Park/River Forest Sounds Good choir this Saturday, May 2 at 4 pm. Full concert schedule and details on our site: https://soundsgoodchoir.org/concert-calendar/

On a Tuesday morning, April 12, 2016, about 35 eager and enthusiastic singers showed up in the crystal ballroom of the Merion in downtown Evanston for something that none of us had ever done before: a non-auditioned daytime choir designed for older adults, with professional music staff. Amy Wurtz wa...

Want good news about aging? Read Sounds Good Choir co-founder, Sandy Siegel Miller's latest post.
03/11/2026

Want good news about aging? Read Sounds Good Choir co-founder, Sandy Siegel Miller's latest post.

I’m the director of the Good Memories Choir, a program of Sounds Good Choir, created for people with dementia and their care partners to sing together. Eleanor, 79, is a caregiver for her older sister. They had been singing with Good Memories for a year before she said something that has stayed wi...

“You mean this whole time you could’ve been making those sounds with others of your kind?” Join a choir—Sing with music ...
01/27/2026

“You mean this whole time you could’ve been making those sounds with others of your kind?” Join a choir—Sing with music lovers! 🎶 SoundsGoodChoir.org/calendar

Join a Sounds Good or Good Memories Choir this spring! Rehearsals start soon, so register today. SoundsGoodChoir.orgCele...
01/22/2026

Join a Sounds Good or Good Memories Choir this spring! Rehearsals start soon, so register today. SoundsGoodChoir.org
Celebrating 10 Years!

59 seconds · Clipped by Elizabeth · Original video "Good Memories Choir performs All That Jazz" by Sounds Good Choir

Sing the winter blues away with us! Choirs forming now, rehearsals start beginning Jan 26. Register today! SoundsGoodCho...
01/08/2026

Sing the winter blues away with us! Choirs forming now, rehearsals start beginning Jan 26. Register today! SoundsGoodChoir.org

12/16/2025

Looking forward to hearing the Hinsdale Sounds Good singers tonight at 7 pm, conducted by Daniel Segner! Happy Holidays start with SoundsGoodChoir.org!

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1111 Warren Avenue
Downers Grove, IL
60515

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 4pm
Tuesday 9am - 4pm
Wednesday 9am - 1:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4pm
Friday 9am - 1:30pm

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