Our vision is to foster an interest in music and related performing arts in Kingston and its surrounding area.
The Kingston Kiwanis Music Festival has taken place every year since 1973. Over the years it has evolved to keep pace with changes in the music scene, participants’ preferences, teachers’ requests, and requirements for participation in the Ontario Music Festival Association provincial competitions. But the basic vision, mission, and values of the Festival have remained the same.
Our mission is to organize and promote an annual amateur music festival for musicians and other performing artists living in Kingston and the surrounding area.
We encourage participation at all age levels with an emphasis on young performers. Our focus is on the performance and knowledge of classical music, speech arts, classical voice, popular music, and music theatre.
Our festival provides participants with feedback from expert adjudicators from outside our community to encourage excellence and to bring new ideas to this area.
We see the festival as an important step in the education of participants in their journey towards excellence in performance.
The Kingston Kiwanis Music Festival, founded by the Kiwanis Club of Kingston, is now a standalone charitable organization to benefit our community without gain for its members.
The Kingston Kiwanis Music Festival has taken place every year since 1973. Over the years it has evolved to keep pace with changes in the music scene, participants’ preferences, teachers’ requests, and requirements for participation in the Ontario Music Festival Association provincial competitions. But the basic vision, mission, and values of the Festival have remained the same.
The Kingston Kiwanis Music Festival, founded by the Kiwanis Club of Kingston, is now a standalone charitable organization to benefit our community without gain for its members.
Our vision is to foster an interest in music and related performing arts in Kingston and its surrounding area.
Our mission is to organize and promote an annual amateur music festival for musicians and other performing artists living in Kingston and the surrounding area.
We encourage participation at all age levels with an emphasis on young performers. Our focus is on the performance and knowledge of classical music, speech arts, classical voice, popular music, and music theatre.
Our festival provides participants with feedback from expert adjudicators from outside our community to encourage excellence and to bring new ideas to this area.
We see the festival as an important step in the education of participants in their journey towards excellence in performance.
Participation in musical education generates confidence and skills that create a positive self image that helps participants find success in all aspects of their lives.
Musical education and appreciation will be enhanced by working with other musical groups in the city, promoting musical education in our schools at all levels, and working with our city to promote Kingston and area as a thriving musical community.
Celebrating the effort of our participants is a necessary component promoting musical education and appreciation in our community. We do this with recognition on our website, the media, awards given during the festival, our annual Highlights Concert for the community at the end of our festival and encouraging award winners to participate in the annual Ontario Music Festivals Association provincial competition.
Outreach activities in retirement homes and other venues provide performance opportunities for our participants and demonstrates our commitment to making music an important part of what our community is about.