The Medicine Hat Rotary Music Festival is a local festival for participants who live within 100 km of Medicine Hat, Alberta (with exceptions for rural communities falling within 50km of this boundary).  Local community festivals are the grassroots of a three-tiered music festival movement in Canada. The Medicine Hat Rotary Music Festival offers classes in:  Vocal / Piano / Brass / Woodwind / Orchestra / Guitar / Choral / Cello / Chamber / Orchestra / Speech / Choral Speech / Musical Theatre / Violin & Viola / Music Composition / Band (Workshop). Our Festival runs over a 2-week period each March. Our Festival is designed to provide a stage for our dedicated young musicians and speech artists to have the opportunity to perform for an audience of their family, friends, and community, while receiving valuable feedback from an expert teacher within their discipline. The Festival engages highly qualified adjudicators and educators who offer feedback on each performance. Our adjudicators are hand selected based on their reputations of being inspiring teachers, who will offer encouragement and opportunity for learning in a positive and constructive manner. We have been so lucky to have many wonderful teachers come to work with our young community artists and our audiences and teachers are inspired by them as well! Our young artists work very hard all year on their pieces and having a place to perform is essential. Under the auspices of the Alberta Music Festival Association, we are one of 37 local festivals in the province and operate as the 4th largest, seeing upwards of 1000 participants each year and many more audience members.