2022 Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Fsetival

The 114th Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival Invites you to Hear the Stars of Tomorrow This year marks the 114th Annual Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival (formerly known as the Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival) – North America’s first competitive music festival. Over 970 single and group entrants (aged 5 to over 70) entered in over 550 classes will perform and compete from April 19 to May 1, 2022, at MacEwan University’s Alberta College Campus (10050 MacDonald Drive). Sessions generally start at 9:00 AM, 1:00 PM, and 6:00 PM. Choirs, bands, orchestras, singers, pianists, guitarists, harpists, speech/acting students, musical theatre performers, string players, composition students, woodwind players, and brass players will be showcasing, in a variety of classes, what they have learned this year. Some will be recommended to represent Edmonton at the Provincial Music Festival, and some will win Scholarships, but all will share their passion in their chosen discipline. Due to COVID-19, choirs, bands, and orchestras are participating virtually through audio and video recordings which will not be available to the general public. We look forward to having these disciplines back live in 2023. All events during the Festival are FREE to the public. Programmes and a Festival-at-a-Glance will be available online at http://www.emsaf.ca. There will be no hard-copy, printed programmes available at the Festival. The Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival (EMSAF) will be following any and all COVID-19 protocols in place at the time of the Festival by Alberta Health, the City of Edmonton, and/or MacEwan University.