MusicFest Canada

🚨 Big News Alert! 🚨

MusicFest Canada has FINALLY joined TikTok! 🎶😎 Get ready for exclusive behind-the-scenes, amazing performances, musical fun facts and all the festival vibes you’ve been waiting for! 🎤🎷🎉

📲 Find us .ca on TIKTOK and hit that follow button! See you on the For You page! 😉

Are you a musician interested in joining the Canadian Armed Forces?

We currently have openings for the following instruments.

Please see the link below for more details:

https://www.canada.ca/.../apply-canadian-forces-musician...

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Êtes-vous un musicien intéressé à vous joindre aux Forces armées canadiennes?

Nous avons actuellement des places disponibles pour les instruments ci-dessous!

Veuillez consulter le lien suivant pour plus de détails:

https://www.canada.ca/.../demande-emploi-musicien-forces...

We're so proud to congratulate Doug & Cathy Ellison, recipients of ‘The Nationals’ MusicFest Hall of Fame Award - an award presented to an individual who has exemplified major contributions to music education, at a national level, in Canada.

For over 30 years, Ellison Travel & Tours has been a proud partner, and the designated travel provider for Musicfest Canada. Since opening in 1980, Ellison has been a strong and avid supporter of music and arts education, which enriches the lives of so many young people across Canada.

To read the full blog post, please visit: https://ellisontravel.com/blog/congratulations-to-doug-cathy-ellison-recipients-of-the-nationals-musicfest-hall-of-fame-award/

One of our volunteers was in Halifax and met a fantastic new friend. Turns out they were a silver winner from Montreal 2007! MusicFest is a part of so many great life stories!

🎉 That’s a wrap on MusicFest Canada 2024! Today, our final 7 production volunteers returned the choral risers to their schools, helped load up over 5 trucks with instruments and gear, and tied up all the loose ends. 🚚🎶

📣 Huge shoutout to everyone who helped make this years festival at the University of Toronto a success! 🌟 We hope each and every participant left with unforgettable memories and tunes ringing in their ears. Until next year, keep the music playing! 🎵💖

From Coast to Coast to Coast. Our map of Canada is completed! Whitehorse to Vancouver Island to St. John’s. Music making is alive and well in Canada! Thank you to and the Registration Office team for welcoming all of our directors with effervescent hospitality!!

❓DID YOU KNOW: almost every instrument, stand, amp, speaker and most of the audio boards we use including all that pretty percussion is assembled, organized, moved, moved again, moved at-least one more time, disassembled, packed up and shipped out by VOLUNTEERS! The festival couldn’t happen with a lot of different departments but we absolutely 💕 LOVE and are GRATEFUL for every single volunteer that shows up and gives their all. THANK YOU!

It’s a wrap 🎬

What an incredible week it has been !

Thank you to all participants who came from the entire country to share their amazing talent.

All of you were absolutely brilliant and such a joy to be around.

Thank you for your communicative energy.

Thank you to the university of Toronto for hosting another well put together music festival.

And last but not least, thank you to Kim Vrieling (pictured above), the production director and her team of spectacular volunteers for organizing such a great event.

Shout out to Mandy Thai (volunteer coordinator), (social media manager), Anastasiya Mihaylova (Production Assistant),

Fantastic performance by the Ellison Honour Choir today at Trinity College. It was a warm room but I am sure everyone got goosebumps!

A few snaps from our Conn-Selmer Centerstage Jazz Band concert this afternoon. Thank you to the band and the amazing for her leadership this week!

Picture perfect 📸📷

Our first Honour concert of the day is the York University National Youth Jazz Combo at 12:30!
They have had an amazing week with and their show will be amazing.

From Beaconsfield Junior High in St. John’s, Newfoundland!!! We really are coast to coast to coast!!! The Choir sang beautifully!

Congratulations to Kirk Wassmer of Didsbury High School in Alberta! He is the recipient of the I. Keith Mann NAC Orchestra Outstanding Band Director Award. .cna .orch.cna

Hello folks. Today’s showcase concerts:

12:30pm - York University National Youth Jazz Combo - Walter Hall - Stage A
2pm - Conn-Selmer Centerstage Jazz Band - Walter Hall - Stage A
4pm - Ellison Canadian Honour Choir - Trinity College - Stage C
6pm - Laurier Honour String Orchestra - Trinity College - Stage C
6:30pm - Denis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra and the Woodshed Canadian Percussion Ensemble - Isabel Bader Theatre
7pm - Ellison Canadian Honour Choir - Saint Thomas’s Anglican Church
8:30pm - Denis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra and the Woodshed Canadian Percussion Ensemble - Isabel Bader Theatre

It’s been such a treat to hear this fine ensemble rehearse all week. The Laurier Honour String Ensemble has been working hard with the .quartet.fans! Their Concert is tomorrow at 6pm. Can’t wait!!

Program for the day !

Love seeing the proud MusicFest school t-shirts!

Incredible TWO performances Wednesday night by to packed theatres! A thousand students enjoyed a dynamic and engaging program. Did you know that we had 3 of our volunteer production team leaders performing in these concerts?!!!

Congratulations to David Willms of Abbey Park High School in Oakville, ON. David is this year’s recipient of the Douglas Payson Sturdevant NAC Orchestra Outstanding Orchestra Director Award. David was presented the award by our Orchestra Chair, Dr. Tony Leong. Congratulations David and all of your amazing students at Abbey Park.

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Congratulations to Julia Jung, Director at St. Aloysius Gonzaga SS, on receiving the Tommy Banks NAC Orchestra Outstanding Jazz Director Award. Julia’s hard work and dedication with her students was celebrated yesterday when she was presented with the award by Associate Director, Neil Yorke-Slader. Congratulations again, Julia!
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Program for the day !

🎯 We are halfway through the festival, guys.

💡For those who attended the performances,
What have been your favourite so far ?

Up next on Stage B, the Whitehorse All-City Junior Band. They have travelled the farthest to be here at MusicFest Canada!!! Good Luck Yukoners!!!