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The Crowsnest Pass Music Festival is one of the longest running festivals in the Province of Alberta. The first festival took place in 1926. It is a member of Alberta Music Festival Association. A group of dedicated volunteers work hard each year to organize a successful event for local musical talent. Music students young and old get a chance to perform in front of an audience and an adjudicator. Adjudicators come from all over Canada and North America to provide constructive feedback, encouragement and a chance to be recommended for Provincial Music Festival in Edmonton, AB.
PRESIDENT'S LETTER
Music can be viewed as a frivolity, an activity just merely put aside for the time that is not used up by other activities. Music can also be treated as merely a discipline, a way to cow a child to do the will of either a parent or a teacher, a means of conformation to a set of rules. However, music can be treated as passion, a means to creativity, a doorway into community, a path to both individualistic and communal freedom. How we treat music is a reflection of what is important as our core values. For the music festival our mandate is the education of our students in the Crowsnest Pass community; we strive to recruit the best adjudicators that will suit the needs of our student base. My hope is that the community’s music students come away with greater knowledge than when they started the festival, that the differing musical views of the various adjudicators will benefit their learning for years to come.
Excellence does come from discipline, but a joyous discipline rooted in a passionate desire to make better the world of others through the practice of one’s craft. As you sit and listen to our students of the Crowsnest Pass, take a moment to really appreciate the dedication to craft and skill that these students have endeavored to achieve. Even amongst the mistakes and perhaps even the disappointment, marvel in the triumph of the willingness to strive. As a musician, and a music teacher, I marvel at the passionate discipline that the students of the Crowsnest Pass show.
I would also like to thank you for attending the concerts, master classes, and the adjudications that the festival puts on. On behalf of myself and the board I would like to thank the generosity of our sponsors, the generous time given by the volunteers, thank you to the parents for taking the time and resources to help build these students in music. Also a very big thank to the adjudicators of the festival for taking the time to come and pour their skill into our community.
I hope that you enjoy the festival and that the performances teach all of us the empathy of the human experience; music is not frivolous, nor just a means of behavioral control, music is a path to excellence through our pursuit to find what’s best within ourselves. ~Tynan Groves, Crowsnest Pass Music Festival President
Excellence does come from discipline, but a joyous discipline rooted in a passionate desire to make better the world of others through the practice of one’s craft. As you sit and listen to our students of the Crowsnest Pass, take a moment to really appreciate the dedication to craft and skill that these students have endeavored to achieve. Even amongst the mistakes and perhaps even the disappointment, marvel in the triumph of the willingness to strive. As a musician, and a music teacher, I marvel at the passionate discipline that the students of the Crowsnest Pass show.
I would also like to thank you for attending the concerts, master classes, and the adjudications that the festival puts on. On behalf of myself and the board I would like to thank the generosity of our sponsors, the generous time given by the volunteers, thank you to the parents for taking the time and resources to help build these students in music. Also a very big thank to the adjudicators of the festival for taking the time to come and pour their skill into our community.
I hope that you enjoy the festival and that the performances teach all of us the empathy of the human experience; music is not frivolous, nor just a means of behavioral control, music is a path to excellence through our pursuit to find what’s best within ourselves. ~Tynan Groves, Crowsnest Pass Music Festival President
