The Lac La Biche and District Music Festival wrapped up its week-long run in Lac La Biche and Plamondon last Friday night with a community concert at Aurora Middle School.
The festival has been an annual music and performance showcase for more than 50 years, bringing provincially-recognized adjudicators to the community to review several categories of performing arts from band, to solo piano, to poetry to choral singing.
This year's event was back after a short hiatus during the COVID pandemic. The week of performances featured more than 100 individual performances.
Friday night's community concert welcomed a full-house audience at the school gymnasium for highlight performances from the week's events, plus winners of bursaries and trophies. Three local pianists were judged by the adjudicators to continue their performing journeys with invitations to the Alberta Provincial Music Festival. The overall Piano category trophy and bursary winner Zoya Ennest will join Gautham and Girpriya Panicker at the Allard Hall at Grant MacEwan University from May 29 to June 2 for the provincail competition.
