Welcome to the Bow Valley Music Festival

 

The Bow Valley Music Festival provides music students with an opportunity to perform before their peers, family, and friends in an encouraging and safe master-class atmosphere. Our aim is to foster a love for music and inspire the youth of the Valley to develop this life skill to its fullest potential. The festival provides the music teachers of the Valley with a venue in which to exchange ideas and support.

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The dates for the 2024 Festival are.

  • Registration opens                                                                  January 9

  • Registration closes              February 16

  • Festival

    - Voice * Thursday, March 21

    - Piano * Friday, March 22

    - Strings, Friday, March 22 & Saturday March 23

    - Brass & Woodwinds * Saturday March 23

  • Showcase Concert Sunday, March 24, 2-4 PM

  • Provincial registrations                                                          April 1

  • Provincial Festival in Edmonton May 27 to June 1

  • Canada West Festival in Victoria BC          July 25 to July 27

    *These are the planned dates for the instrument adjudications. The timing will be confirmed on March 4

To be eligible for this event Canada West Festival you must be recommended from the Provincial Festival.  For details, please go to the Alberta Music Festival website - www.albertamusicfestival.org

We will be using the same registration software used for the 2023 Festival. If you are a returning musician, you may register using the login you used last year.

The Festival is open to permanent residents of Lake Louise, Banff, Canmore, Exshaw, Lac des Arc, Deadman's Flats, Kananaskis, Morley, Ghost Lake, Bragg Creek, Redwood Meadows and Cochrane, or to students studying with a teacher who resides permanently in one of these communities.

Our Land Acknowledgement

The Bow Valley Music Festival acknowledges that we gather together to create and enjoy music in the beautiful foothills and mountains that are the home and traditional territory of the Treaty 7 people. In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth; we honour and acknowledge the Bow Valley area and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney First Nations – as well as, the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, and the Métis Nation (Region 3).