2023 Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival

The 115th Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival Invites You to Hear the Stars of Tomorrow This year marks the 115th Annual Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival (formerly known as the Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival) – North America’s first competitive music festival. Over 1,400 single and group entrants (aged 5 to over 80), taught by 192 teachers, and entered in over 670 classes will perform and compete from April 17 to 29, 2023, at MacEwan University’s Alberta College Campus (10050 MacDonald Drive), Robertson-Wesley United Church (10209 123 Street), the Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre (8426 Gateway Boulevard), and Archbishop MacDonald Catholic High School (14219 109 Avenue). 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, brass players, and new this year — adult ukulele 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. We are excited to have choirs, bands, and orchestras back live this year! All events during the Festival are FREE to the public. The High Level Bridge will be lit up in Red & Gold on Friday, April 14, 2023 to help kick-off the upcoming Festival. The complete Programme and a Festival-at-a-Glance will be available online at http://www.emsaf.ca no later than April 9, 2023. There will be no hard-copy, printed programmes available at the Festival. For more information, please visit the Edmonton Music & Speech Arts Festival (EMSAF) website at http://www.emsaf.ca