Thompson Local News

RD Parker music students head to Dauphin for music festival

 

Students from the RD Parker Music Program will be taking part in this year’s Parkland Norman Honour Band Festival.

 

Over 40 students from Thompson will be heading down to Dauphin tomorrow to join the roughly 200 other students from across Northern Manitoba and the Parkland regions to spend an intensive three days learning about music.

 

One of the RD Parker music directors Kevin Lewis talked about the process for determining who’s chosen to go.

 

“It’s an honour band, so it’s based on selected students. Students who are interested let us know and we try to get as many students in from our region as we can. And there are quite a few different regions, quite a few programs and bands. We get together, sit down, look at what we have for instrumentation and size, and then we send out invitations to the students. They’re provided the material in advance, they prepare it, and if it’s up to snuff, then they get the invitation and they get to go.”

 

The festival runs from March 3rd to the 5th.

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