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

    - Band, Brass & Woodwinds Thursday, March 20

  • 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

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 donate.

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).