Submitted by:
Lloyd Gilchrist |

The keyboard, vocal, and choral portions of the Swan Valley Fine Arts Festival were held this past Wednesday to Friday, April 8-10, 2015 at the Temple Baptist Church in Swan River.

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Festival president April Maxwell (left) opened the session and welcomed prominent Winnipeg musician, Tiffany A. Wilson (right) as this session’s adjudicator.

Sessions began Wednesday morning with piano solo and duet classes. Wednesday afternoon was the time for school choruses and choirs with schools from Swan River, Minitonas, and Bowsman taking part. Vocal solos and ensembles completed the day’s session on Wednesday evening. Thursday morning and afternoon sessions were more acoustic and electric piano solos.

This portion of the festival ended on Friday morning with school speech choirs and individuals demonstrating their speech arts in various classes.