Moose Jaw

Band and Choral Festival

May 15-18, 2017

About the Moose Jaw Band Festival

2017 will be our 68th festival, showcasing musicians of all ages, certainly some of whom can remember being inspired in music when they were children attending this festival. Our festival is non-competitive, with two adjudicators per group, and with the opportunity for a “hands-on clinic” in every case.

Latest News

Chair Messages

MARCH 2016

Spring is here and so is festival season! I am sure your “to-do” list is already as long as mine, but here are a few reminders to help you prepare …

Register Now! Spots are filling up Fast!

Venues

The Moose Jaw Band and Choral Festival uses four main venues all located in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan

Mae Wilson Theatre

The Moose Jaw Cultural Centre, located at 217 Main St. N. in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, is home to the Mae Wilson Theatre and the Conexus Visual Arts Centre. The 420-seat Mae Wilson Theatre is the site of many shows each year including concerts of every type of music, musicals, plays, concerts, ballets, and films. Local school groups to internationally-recognized acts have performed on the Mae Wilson stage. The theatre has been restored to the glory and splendour it had when it first opened as the Allen Theatre in 1916.

Peacock

A. E. Peacock Collegiate is Moose Jaw’s only comprehensive high school. Although it first opened it's doors to students in 1931, we continually strive to provide a high quality, diverse, and relevant education for Moose Jaw and area students. Our facility is the pride of the community and includes many unique attributes such as the 800 seat Centennial Auditorium.

St. Aidan Church Hall

St. Aidan Anglican Church was formed in 2003 by amalgamating four Anglican congregations (of the Anglican Church of Canada) into one new parish in one building. The building we eventually selected is the former St. John's Anglican Church, located in downtown Moose Jaw, beside the bus depot at High St. and 1st Ave. East. The cornerstone was laid in 1909.

Zion Church

Thank you for making our 67th annual festival a huge success! From performers to teachers, clinicians, parents, chaperones, bus drivers, volunteers, committee members, venue staff, school administrators, caretakers, caterers and supportive spouses… whatever your role, thank you for helping us to put the “fest” in “festival.” I hope you have the opportunity to relax, refresh and recharge over the summer, but before you do, please register for 2017. Due to popular demand, we have added more spots for concert band but since registrations opened on June 1, the schedule has been filling fast. Have a great summer and see you 2017! Jennifer Tenford, chair Moose Jaw Band and Choral Festival

Testimonials

Karen McKenzie

Band Director Victoria School Saskatoon, SK.

Sharon, I just wanted to thank you and the committee for all the work you do to organize this festival. I had a group that performed there yesterday, and I was SO impressed with our experience. Probably the best clinic experience we had and it was so nice for the clinicians to tag team the way they did. It was a great way for my gr 8's to finish off their junior high band career. I hope to be back next year! Well done. With much appreciation,

Jeff Johnson

Jazz band clinician 2012

The goal of music education through band/choir programs and Festivals like the Moose Jaw Band and Choral Festival is to encourage students to love music not merely as entertainment or amusement. Instead, our goal is to provide a caring, nurturing and creative environment that both encourages and empowers students to share in and embrace in each other a sense of what is good, just and beautiful. Both the arts and athletics play an integral role in the lives of our kids and thank goodness, otherwise we’re left with simply going to work, coming home and mowing the lawn. It’s a great festival and it’s really well run. You are treated like absolute royalty. The facilities are great, the kids are great, and the bands have been great. It’s been everything we were told it was.