The Holiday Season is here

and it's a perfect time to give back

to your community.

There are many ways to support the work done by the National Capital Region Music Festival (known by everyone as the Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival). You can give by cheque, by credit card (through Canada Helps) and/or through our FlipGive portal. All the funds help us put on the best Festival we can to support all our participants' hard work. Click here to find out more.

Give yourself lots of time for Registration!

We've realized that it might take longer than expected to set up your ID with MusicFestivalSuite. As a participant, you'll need to have a separate ID for your teacher, for your parent (if you are a minor) and for your accompanist (if you have one) before you can do your own. This information all links together to help us schedule you with the minimum number of conflicts. Your team can each go to this link to set up their own ID: https://www.musicfestivalsuite.com/cgi-bin/accprof.cgi?evdmn=ncrmf

* Note that if you or your team have an ID with Provincials, you may be able to migrate it over to our Festival since it's the same registration program. We're checking into that for you now and will update that information soon. We will post the update on our website homepage.

Make sure you have all your info ready when you start the process. Also please note that "Tech Support" (aka Christopher Askwith, festivalcorrections@gmail.com) may not be available on the evening of December 20th so it's best to get it done early.

Dates to remember:

• December 20 2022 – solo registration deadline
• January 20 2023 – ensemble registration deadline
• February 15 2023 – Senior Scholarship application deadline. Click here for more information on this funding stream meant to help with post-secondary school fees.

NEW in 2023!

We are happy to announce FREE ADMISSION for audience members for all regular SOLO classes. We hope you will bring all your friends and relatives to experience the amazing music performed at our Festival.

*Tickets will still be needed for Bands, Choirs and Orchestras classes and for all Trophy Class concerts.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

We can’t hold a live Festival without Volunteers. One of the impacts of the pandemic is that many of our volunteers have retired. We need dozens of new and energetic volunteers to work in our venues at the door and/or with the adjudicators – days and evenings, weekdays and weekends. Please contact kim@okmf.ca if this interests you. You can always check out this page on our website for more information.

Do consider supporting your Festival in this truly amazing way where you get to participate right in the thick of things.