No Audition, No Sheet Music: Wholehearted Chorus Brings Its 2026 Season to Carmel with Three October Concerts

More than a choir — a singing community that reads, listens, and talks its way toward a more loving world — returns to the Central Coast, where it began, for concerts at Hidden Valley, the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center, and Carmel’s Sunset Center

Wholehearted Chorus, the welcoming community choir founded by internationally recognized songleader Lisa Littlebird, brings its 2026 season to California’s Central Coast this fall, returning to the region where the chorus began. The Central Coast season features three October concerts: an afternoon at Hidden Valley in Carmel Valley on Saturday, October 17, at 3 p.m.; a concert on Sunday, October 18, at the Pacific Grove Performing Arts Center; and a concert at the Sunset Center in Carmel on Tuesday, October 20, at 7 p.m.

Unlike a traditional choir, Wholehearted holds no auditions and uses no sheet music. Singers of all ages and experience learn the songs by heart through repetition, supported by lyric sheets, recorded practice tracks, and one another. The chorus describes its songs as sacred technologies of the heart, designed to uplift, heal, and nurture a sense of belonging.

“Singers of all ages and experience are wholeheartedly welcome in our choir and at our concerts,” said Lisa Littlebird, the chorus’s founder and artistic director. “We learn the old way, by heart. Together we do what none of us could do alone, and we consistently surprise and delight ourselves with how great we sound.”