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Winnipeg Music Festival

 

Posted: 6:59 PM CST Monday, Mar. 6, 2017

Last Modified: 7:13 PM CST Monday, Mar. 6, 2017 | Updates

For 99 years, students have tested their melodic mettle at the annual Winnipeg Music Festival.

The first event in 1919 had just 38 classes; that number has since swelled to more than 500 — including everything from baroque French horn and Romantic classical guitar to pipe organ and community handbell ensemble — and welcomes competitors from across Manitoba, northwest Ontario and the northern United States.

This year’s festival got underway Feb. 26 and runs to March 19. Monday, choral competitors brought perfect harmony to Westminster United Church, while students of musical theatre took the songs of the Great White Way to the Winnipeg Art Gallery. 

 

MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSMarlon Goolcharan sings Empty Chairs at Empty Tables from Les Miserables during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad male category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19th.170306 - Monday, March 06, 2017.</p></p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Roberta Matheson the conductor for the West Kildonan Collegiate Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Gabrielle Fontaine sings She Used to be Mine from Waitress during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad female category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Tiana Beaudry sings Stars and the Moon from Songs for a New World during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad female category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Alice Russell the conductor for the Westwood Collegiate Chamber Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Kimberly Lapatha plays piano accompaniment for the West Kildonan Collegiate Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Alice Russell the conductor for the Westwood Collegiate Chamber Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Sven Buller sings If Ever I Would Leave You from Camelot during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad male category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>The West Kildonan Collegiate Choir performs in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon during the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Julia Kroft sings The Life I Never Led from Sister Act during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad female category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>The Linden Christian School Senior Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>The Linden Christian School Senior Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Adjudicator Derek Morphy watches as one of the grades 9-12 school choirs performs in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon during the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>The Linden Christian School Senior Choir during a performance in the Westminster United Church Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Sari Cohen sings Home from Beauty and the Beast during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad female category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS</p><p>Aron Broder sings Burn from Hamilton during a performance in the vocal solo, musical theatre — Ballad female category at the WAG theatre Monday afternoon as part of the 99th annual Winnipeg Music Festival which goes until March 19.</p>
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Updated on Monday, March 6, 2017 at 7:13 PM CST: changed "yesterday" to Monday

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