Welcomes
Attendees of the
79th
Annual Penticton Kiwanis Music, Dance and Speech Arts Festival
March 3rd– April 29th, 2005
The
Penticton Kiwanis Music, Dance and Speech Arts Festival
was founded as the Okanagan Valley Music Festival in 1926.
Today, Penticton alone annually hosts over 1800 competitive
and non-competitive young amateur performing arts entries
in 9 disciplines. These include strings and guitar, piano,
vocal, dance, woodwinds and brass, and speech arts. Respected
adjudicators from Western Canada and the United States critique
each performance and numerous awards are presented at two
Highlights Concerts held in early May.