VOICES of Kentuckiana is first and foremost a community chorus. We are unique among choral groups in the Louisville, Kentucky area because our definition of community and the music we perform are truly inclusive. We were founded in 1994
to provide an opportunity for gays, lesbians and supportive others to sing together and to perform music that is meaningful to us and to our audiences. Our founding is part of an international movement in the past thirty years for gay and lesbian liberation.

VOICES of Kentuckiana is an arts organization that performs concerts at the Clifton Center . VOICES of Kentuckiana
serves a very large community in Indiana and Kentucky . Not including Louisville , our advertising, newsletters, patron letters, and announcements are delivered to 32 cities in Indiana and 45 cities in Kentucky .

The founders of the chorus intentionally defined and structured it to be a non-auditioned, inclusive organization that through its own membership would express the best of the human spirit and the American ideal, principally, celebration of our diversity. VOICES continues to operate according to this founding principle. We are the only choral group in the Louisville metropolitan area that consciously seeks and supports a membership and audience that embraces all people. Our second objective is to support the arts through broader public participation. This goal is inextricably tied to our first one, because by virtue of being diverse, we increase the number of people who contribute to and benefit from the artistic life of our community.

Since our first performance in 1994, we have presented over thirty concerts, each performance musically better than the previous one. In December 1999, the Louisville Courier Journal reviewed us for the first time. During the past 11 years we have also expanded our geographic reach, traveling to Tampa , Florida , in July of 1996, San Jose , California , in July of 2000, and Montreal , Canada in 2004 to participate with hundreds of gay and lesbian choruses in the GALA Choruses Festival, which is held every four years. Additionally, VOICES collaborates with the gay and lesbian choruses from Indianapolis and Cincinnati to present joint performances in this region.

In the past eleven years, VOICES of Kentuckiana has matured from a fledgling in the Louisville arts community to a viable and accomplished choral organization. The chorus itself has provided the spirit and the labor necessary to reach this level of success, which speaks to the commitment of our chorus membership for our goals of enabling everyone to participate in our community's artistic life.

VOICES has been recognized by the Kentucky Derby Museum and Festival for its vocal excellence by being asked to tape an accapella performance of “My Old Kentucky Home” which is included as part of the Museum's historical review of the Kentucky Derby. In 2005, VOICES was asked to perform at the Kentucky Derby International Press Gala. VOICES also performs several “free attendance” concerts during our concert season. These include the annual Aids Walk, The March For Justice, World Aids Day, Special Olympics, and The Martin Luther King Celebration, and the Kentuckiana Pride Festival.