In case you're chomping at the bit to see the program for this year's Battlfefords Kiwanis Music Festival, the program will be available for $7 at Sobeys after Feb. 24, or this coming weekend. If you are looking for a quick reference or summary, posters outlining dates and schedule information are already posted around town.
In case you missed any of the past blurbs introducing this year's adjudicators, here are the highlights. Kicking off this year's festival with speech arts, is Gaye-Lynn Kern, a teacher, performer and clinician from Saskatoon. Strings adjudicator, Kim de Laforest, is a fiddle, violin and viola performer and teacher from Saskatoon. Saskatoon-based piano adjudicator, Mark Turner, grew up in a musical family in small town Saskatchewan, was self-taught at the piano, but went on to study and perform extensively across Canada. Michele Hupaelo, vocal adjudicator, is a voice and piano teacher in Saskatoon. Wrapping up the festival with band is Peter England, a former teacher with the Saskatoon Catholic Board of Education currently active as an adjudicator/clinician throughout the province and the past president of SaskCulture.
If you are a teacher or participant, this might be an appropriate time to make sure you're abiding by festival entry rules and regulations. It is important to not use any photocopied music since that is illegal. Any music being viewed by the adjudicator or used in the performance must be an original copy. The music handed in to the adjudicator must have the first bar of each line numbered. Music must be handed in to the session's secretary prior to the start of each session. It is prohibited to practice in venue performance areas during the festival dates except in designated rehearsal or warm-up areas. And please arrive on time so that sessions start promptly.
Speech arts will begin the festival running from March 7 to 9. String sessions will be held for one day on March 9. Piano runs for three days from March 10 to12, followed by five days of voice from March 13 to17. Band entries will wind up events March 20 and 21. The celebratory gala and awards ceremony will be held March 23 at Third Avenue United Church.
"A song has a few rights not the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?" - Charles Ives
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