We’ve already told you about the cool festivals and events in March…but have you heard about the Calgary Kiwanis Music Festival?
Yes, as you may have guessed, the Calgary Kiwanis Music Festival is one of North America’s largest amateur competitive classical music festivals. To put that into normal English? The Kiwanis festival is a celebration of music and speech arts!
Close to 10,000 amateur musicians and speech arts performers have the opportunity to perform, compete for scholarships, listen to others, and be adjudicated by national and international adjudicators during this festival. The performers featured range from being 5 to 25 years old, and they will be sorted into 1005 classes with 18 categories overall, including piano, speech, choirs, musical theatre and, for the first time ever, harp classes! Classes are open to individuals, duets, small ensembles and groups.
This year, the festival (the 79th one, to be exact) will run from March 1st to the 20th. It is held at the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and at the SAIT Campus Centre. Each day of competition is split into three sessions: morning, afternoon, and evening. And guess what? These daily sessions are open to the public at no charge! Click here for more information on these sessions.
In addition to daily sessions, there will be four concerts throughout the festival that highlight some of the most outstanding performances in musical theatre, European masters classes, speech performance, and overall. To find out when these concerts are, click here.
Do stop by and chek this out–you never know, you just might spot some up-and-coming artists!