‘ GET READY > TO LISTEN © and watch and enjoy — it’s festival time The annual event that turns Terrace into one amphitheatre echoing with music for nearly two weeks begins March 30. In its 26th year, the Pacific Northwest Music Festival will be larger and will have a broader range of events in 1992 than any previous festival. The Terrace Rotary Club demonstrated their support of the Pacific Northwest Music Festival again this year with the donation of $2,000 for a music scholarship. The cheque was presented last month by Rotary member John Clift to festival president Marilyn Kerr and Lael McKeown. Terrace Review — March 20, 1992 A total of 1,226 entries will compete in the festival, bringing 4,870 participants. Competi- tors will come from throughout the Northwest and as far away as Fort St. John — 120 band students, teachers and supporters arriving by bus — to seek awards, scholarships, a chance to perform in a prestigious regional festival, ‘and to receive evaluation at the hands of distinguished adjudicators, By category, the competition consists of 290 speech art entries, 167 instrumental, 442 in piano, 121 choral and vocal, 141 dance and 58 band, as well as seven original musical compo- sitions. , The competitions will be held in three loca- tions: the R.E.M. Lee Theatre, Skeena Junior Secondary School, and the auditorium and fireside room in the Pentecostal Church on Eby St. The festival’s first week will be devoted to junior piano, speech arts and choral speaking. Band competition and dance events will be held the weekend of April 3-5, with instrumen- tal competitions being held on April 2 and 6. Ben TW RELI EE ee a eee ponent ay