Welcome to the Bow Valley Music Festival

 

The Bow Valley Music Festival provides music students with an opportunity to perform before their peers, family, and friends in an encouraging and safe master-class atmosphere. Our aim is to foster a love for music and inspire the youth of the Valley to develop this life skill to its fullest potential. The festival also provides the music teachers of the Valley with a venue to exchange ideas and support.

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The dates for the 2025 Festival are.

  • Registration opens                                                                  January 7

  • Registration closes              February 14

  • Festival

    - Voice * Thursday, March 20

    - Piano * Thursday, March 20 & Friday, March 21

    - Strings* Friday, March 21 & Saturday March 22

    - Brass & Woodwinds * TBD

  • Showcase Concert Sunday, March 23, 2-4 PM

  • Provincial registrations                                                          April 1

  • Provincial Festival in Edmonton May 26 - 29

  • Canada West National Festival          July 24 - 26 - Saskatoon

    *These are the planned dates for the instrument adjudications. The timing will be confirmed on March 4

We will be using the new registration software used for the 2025 Festival. If you are a returning musician, you must create a new login account.

The Festival is open to permanent residents of Lake Louise, Banff, Canmore, Exshaw, Lac des Arc, Deadman's Flats, Kananaskis, Morley, Ghost Lake, Bragg Creek, Redwood Meadows and Cochrane, or to students studying with a teacher who resides permanently in one of these communities.

We are now a registered charity. Click here to make a donation.

Our Land Acknowledgement

The Bow Valley Music Festival acknowledges that we gather together to create and enjoy music in the beautiful foothills and mountains that are the home and traditional territory of the Treaty 7 people. In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth; we honour and acknowledge the Bow Valley area and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney First Nations – as well as, the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, and the Métis Nation (Region 3).