The Carnduff and District Music and Arts Festival is going to be coming soon, with lots of different musicians taking part in this festival.
The main performance will begin at the Royal Canadian Legion’s Carnduff branch on March 4 at 1 p.m. Additionally, there will be more performances going on in Oxbow at the Oxbow Prairie Horizons School.
The festival wraps up on March 9.
“We are going to be having a strings and guitar day after that we are going to have four days of piano and then on the Wednesday (March 7) we are going to have double venue days with one event in Oxbow,” said Pamela Dmytriw, president of the Carnduff and District Music and Arts Festival board.
“In Oxbow we are going to have all of our band performers with instrumentalists in the morning and four bands will follow in the afternoon.”
There is information available online about the different disciplines for the music festival. Dmytriw said that pamphlets with more information are available at the local drug stores in Oxbow and Carnduff.
She is always excited to see so much talent come through Carnduff, giving young people an opportunity to learn.
“The Carnduff music festival is all local talent and we will be having musicians from seven nearby communities,” said Dmytriw.
“Most of the musicians are from ages six to 18, and we do have a few adults as well. Of the musicians in attendance, their skills are from about five different areas and they are piano, strings, woodwind, brass and percussion,” she added.
Carnduff has a pipes and drums band division that also will be on the morning of March 7, and that Dmytriw noted that is one of the aspects that makes the festival unique.
She also noted that the Carnduff festival brings a lot of good for the community in terms of people having something to do and businesses being able to serve some new customers during the festival.
“I think it is a great value for the Carnduff and the surrounding communities to have this festival because it promotes a lot of local talent,” said Dmytriw. “It also adds a lot for the communities of Carnduff and Oxbow, who see a lot of people pass through town and go to restaurants and things like that.”
The event will wrap up with a highlights and awards ceremony on March 12 at 7 p.m. at the Carnduff legion.
“We are going to have four judges come in and they will be staying for a bit in one of the hotels and overall the festival is a great chance to people to enjoy music while the communities gain something positive from it,” said Dmytriw
“We are a charitable group, meaning we make no profit from our music festival and how we redistribute that money back into the community is through awards and scholarships,” she added.
Dmytriw and the festival board is currently looking to also begin raising money for a much needed piano.
“We are currently saving up money to a buy a new piano because the current one at the legion is shared between us and the legion. Additionally, we have spent a lot of money on the current piano getting repaired it is an older piano,” said Dmytriw.
“Saving up for this piano will probably be a 10 to 15-year project but we are really looking forward to getting our piano because we do need one.”
