Four-day event to bring 3,000 students from three provinces
to Moose Jaw
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Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald
The Peacock Collegiate Senior Concert Band works
with
clinician TaniaMarie Cooper on Monday during
the 68th annual Moose
Jaw Band and Choral Festival.
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By Lisa Goudy
When TaniaMarie Cooper was eight years old, she played in
the 1977 Moose Jaw Band and Choral Festival for the first time. She went every following
year for the next 10 years with the Regina Lions Club.
This week she is back in Moose Jaw for the festival’s 68th
instalment, only this time she’s here as an adjudicator from Okotoks, Alta. The
festival began Monday and runs until Thursday.
“This was my first festival when I was growing up,” she
said. “It’s a wonderful festival. I love the part that it’s non-competitive,
that we get a chance to work with the kids. It’s just exciting to see music
still so vibrant in Saskatchewan.”
The annual festival features 76 bands and 18 choirs from
Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba and eight clinicians. Sharon Penner, event
co-ordinator, said she anticipated the event to draw more than 3,000 students
to the city.
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