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Music Festival is underway

This year’s edition of the Estevan and District Music Festival opened on Sunday afternoon with piano performances at Trinity Lutheran Church. The piano portion of the festival will continue until March 25.
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Cutline: From the left, performers Elliana Wiebe, Miley Granberg and Shiven Sangar, adjudicator Lore
Cutline: From the left, performers Elliana Wiebe, Miley Granberg and Shiven Sangar, adjudicator Lore Ruschiensky, and performers Sydney Madsen, Adyn Waloshin, Hailey Gigian, Madison Mack and Jessica Cooper gather for a group photo following the opening piano classes of the Estevan and District Music Festival.

This year’s edition of the Estevan and District Music Festival opened on Sunday afternoon with piano performances at Trinity Lutheran Church.

The piano portion of the festival will continue until March 25.

Band performances will run on March 27 and 28, and then the vocal and speech arts entries will be heard from March 29 to April 1.

President Pam Dechief said the piano portion of the festival has become quite large in recent years, to the point where they have nearly a week of performances.

About 650 entries were received this year, which is a similar number to last year. Young people of all ages and abilities have registered to perform at this year’s festival.

“The students have spent many hours preparing their pieces for the music festival,” said Dechief.

Dates have yet to be determined for the festival’s highlight and awards programs. They were slated to happen on April 4 and 5, but due to a scheduling conflict, they had to be rescheduled.

Dechief expects the top performers and award winners for the piano, vocal and speech arts will be saluted one night, and the band and instrumental honours will happen another night.