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By Brendan Mayer

Fun festival

2021 Humboldt Music Festival gets 168 participants

Apr 1, 2021 | 5:00 PM

The Humboldt and District Music Festival took place last week at Westminster United Church with 168 participants.

The festival had 162 piano entries and six string entries, and most of the students were from Humboldt.

“We were very happy with how it went this year,” Humboldt Music Festival coordinator April Kozar said.

This was the festival’s 84th anniversary and Weyburn’s Cherith Alexander was this year’s adjudicator.

“She was very good,” Kozar said. “She has a lot of experience that she brought with her and she was able to provide them [the participants] with some very good feedback.”

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The students were able to play live for Alexander, but there were no spectators.

“I think they were just happy to be able to perform,” Kozar said. “It was something for them to work towards and to look forward to. They were able to continue with their lessons. It’s really important to them.”

The performances can be viewed on the festival’s Facebook page and Kozar said the videos will likely stay up for the next couple months.

Guitar, band, vocals, speech arts, musical theatre, and the final concert were cancelled at the 2021 event due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Kozar said the Humboldt and District Music Festival is looking for more board members. Anyone who is interested can email humboldtmusicfestival@gmail.com.

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