Hosted by Uniting Voices Chicago’s Ambassadors Board, SoundBites is a fundraising event on Thursday, April 17 at Venue West that showcases the inspiration, inclusion, celebration and expression of the thousands of Chicago youth lifted up by Uniting Voices Chicago’s equitable arts education programs. Attended by Chicago’s most influential young professionals, admission includes full event access, open bar, generous hors d’oeuvres, musical performances all night and an opportunity to give back to an organization that changes lives through music.
SoundBites is a 21 plus only event.
Whether you fly solo or roll deep, we’ve got multiple ticket options to make it easy for you to make the most of your experience—all while making the future brighter for Chicago’s youth. That’s a win-win.
Thank you to all of our 2025 SoundBites Sponsors, Event Partners, and supporters! Special thanks to each of our Drawing contributors listed below and to Boka Catering Group.
Last year we raised over $100,000 to support our youth empowerment and music education programs—our most successful SoundBites yet! Let's keep that momentum going and break our record again!
We are excited to welcome alum Jamila Woods as the SoundBites 2025 guest artist! Jamila Woods is a musician, poet, and multidisciplinary artist from the South Side of Chicago. Her most recent album, “Water Made Us,” is a genre-blending song cycle on love and the wisdom of surrender. Jamila has been featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk, CBS This Morning, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. An award-winning poet, Jamila’s work often blurs boundaries between poem and song. As cultural critic Doreen St. Felix writes, “It makes you wish all singers were poets."
Jamila will perform a solo set accompanied by Peter CottonTale, in addition to singing alongside Voice of Chicago. Jamila was a part of Uniting Voices (formerly Chicago Children’s Choir) for 2 years, including one year in the Beverly Neighborhood Choir Program and one year in Concert Choir. Peter CottonTale is a Grammy-winning composer and producer from Chicago who produced “Together,” an uplifting song that featured Uniting Voices alongside Chance the Rapper and Cynthia Erivo.
