Message From The Chairman
Chairman’s Message
The Oshawa Whitby Kiwanis Music Festival is looking forward to the participants, their families and music teachers to join us for the 41st year of the Festival.
Our mission is to provide children and other parties interested in the arts access to the adjudication process designed to inspire positive and constructive appraisal aimed to encourage excellence. Many of our participants and scholarship winners go on to a career involving music at a higher level. However, all participants benefit from their experience in the Festival whether they choose to continue in the field of music or not.
The Festival is supported by the three Kiwanis Clubs of Oshawa and the community at large. With approximately 1500 entrants made up of some 6000 local participants in voice solos, choirs, instruments and bands from the Durham Region which requires as many as 300 volunteers at the various venues.
The expense budget, in the range of $50,000, is a huge financial undertaking for the Kiwanis clubs of Oshawa, particularly since the membership in service clubs is not growing. Participants pay an entry fee to enter classes and to help keep these fees to a minimum we need the support of our corporate sponsors and ask you consider helping financially by becoming a Patron of the Festival. The Festival is a registered charity offering tax receipts for donations.
I thank the Music Festival Board of Directors for their work and dedication to the Festival and also to the members of the three Oshawa Kiwanis Clubs for their support and time given to the Festival.
On behalf of the Oshawa Whitby Kiwanis Music Festival thank you for your participation and we look forward to a successful Festival again this year.
George Warren, Chairman
Oshawa-Whitby Kiwanis Music Festival
