Boissevain Festival of the Arts

27/11/2024

Time to start thinking about Festival 2025! Head over to bfota.ca to have a look at the Addendum. Registration forms will be posted soon.

Send a message to learn more

30/04/2024

We have another winner!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Congratulations to

Miss Sophia Raes!! 💐

Sophia is the Beginner solo winner from Thursday March 7th our last day of the piano festival which had been re scheduled from “Storm Monday”

Sorry we missed celebrating you earlier Sophia!
Congratulations again!

28/03/2024

Congratulations to all our Festival award winners!

We respectfully request that you all send a 'thank you' to the donors of your awards. We very much apreciate their generosity and wish to encourage them for future Festival donations.
And - they would love to hear from you!

Thank you!

16/03/2024

Join us for the 2024 Festival Awards Concert tomorrow (Sunday) the 17th at 3 pm in the Whitewater Church! The award winners in Vocal and Piano will treat us to solos, duets and even a small ensemble. See you there!

10/03/2024

The Piano Festival for 2024 is in the books! And what a week it was! Despite TWO snowstorms, we were able to run all classes with only a few cancellations.

Sincere thanks to our dedicated Festival committee volunteers as well as all those from the community who volunteered at specific sessions.

We are grateful to our Adjudicator, Lisa Rumpel, who bravely made the trip from Winnipeg on Monday, and then went right to work encouraging all the participants in her kind and gentle manner.

Finally - we applaud all the participants, their familes/supporters and teachers!

Well Done!

See you at the Awards Concert on the 17th!

08/03/2024

UPDATE (results from Thursday): Congratulations to the winner of the Beginner Piano Trophy - Sophia Raes.

Thank you to all the participants and their supporters for coming!

Festival results from TUESDAY our 2nd day of festival.

Congratulations to our winner of the Grade 4 Scholarship Chelsea Martens; to Sophie Plett, winner of the Grade 2 Trophy, and Sophia Abanico, winner of the Grade 1 Trophy. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Results from WEDNESDAY our 3rd day of festival - in the screen shot.

Thank you all for coming! It was a very snowy day….again!

Congratulations to all our winners. 🏆

07/03/2024

🎵Good morning this is the 4th and final day of competition for the 2024 festival. 🎶

Please see the reminder below.
Good luck to everyone.

Tues and Wed results coming soon. 🏆

05/03/2024

Good morning!

Thank you for all of your patience as our piano people navigated the storm and our schedule!

Hope you are all ready for day 2!

Just a reminder Non-competitive beginner piano classes from Monday @ 9am are TODAY Tuesday @2:45pm.

Thank you to everyone who came out and performed or supported performers!

Winners from day 1.
Congratulations to you all!👏🏻

Noah Whetter grade 3 scholarship.
Senior romantic-Kendra Sanders
Senior classical-Kendra Sanders
Senior baroque-Kendra Sanders
Senior sight reading-Owen Raes

For up to date info please check our website

UPDATE: The 1:45 classes for Grade 3 piano students will be pushed back to later this afternoon (Monday), upon the Adjudicator's arrival. Teachers will be notified. NOTICE: The NON-Competitive Beginner Piano classes for Monday morning at 9:00 am have been re-scheduled to TUESDAY 2:45 pm. The

04/03/2024

IMPORTANT NOTE:
We are anticipating (HOPING) for a 3:00 start for the Grade 3’s this afternoon.

04/03/2024

UPDATE: The 1:45 classes for Grade 3 piano students will be pushed back to later this afternoon (Monday), upon the Adjudicator's arrival. Teachers will be notified.

03/03/2024

NOTICE: The NON-Competitive Beginner Piano classes for Monday morning at 9:00 am have been re-scheduled to TUESDAY 2:45 pm.

The remaining competititve Beginner Piano classes (Monday, 9:30 am and 1:00 pm) have been re-scheduled to THURSDAY 9:00 am.

The Grade 3 classes at 1:45 Monday will proceed as scheduled.

Thank you for your understanding. The weather is beyond our control!

29/02/2024

Vocal/chorus day is in the books!

Thank you for coming! Our festival appreciates all of the support!

Great job to all the performers!
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Congratulations to all the winners!
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Check out our page and
www.discoverwestman.com for festival results.

28/02/2024

🎼Tomorrow is our first day of the 2024 festival!

It is our only day of vocal and choral performances.

🎟️Please join us starting at 9am at the Whitewater church in Boissevain.

🎟️Afternoon session starting at 1pm and evening starting at 6:30pm.

$5.00 per session

🍀Good luck to all the participants and HAVE FUN!😃

For more information on times and schedules please go to

2024 Performances Vocal & Choral: Wednesday, Feb 28, 2024 Piano: Monday March 4 - Wednesday March 6, 2024 _______________ 2024 BFOTA Festival Programs Dates and performance times are final. Please report errors/omissions made by the BFOTA committee. [email protected] Program Link _______________ 2024

10/02/2024

Head over to our website BFOTA.ca to check out the Festival program!
Vocal/Choral - Feb. 28
Piano - Mar. 4-6
Session Admission - $5
All sessions at the Whitewater Church
Come support our budding musicians who have worked so hard to share their love of music.

03/01/2024

We are excited to launch the Boissevain Festival of the Arts 2024 season! The Addendum and registration forms are up on the website BFOTA.ca
Please read the Addendum carefully before submitting entries, and note that there is a new Provincial Syllabus this year. Available online here: https://www.amaf.mb.ca/syllabus
Entry deadline: Friday, January 12

For those wanting to purchase a hard copy edition, these will be available for purchase at a later date. Check back for pricing (including postage).

23/03/2023

Show us your photos and video clips - from either the Awards Concert or the Festival sessions! 🎶

22/03/2023

💐Congratulations to all our 2023 Boissevain festival of the arts award winners!!! 💐

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

19/03/2023

Awards concert today, 3pm at the Whitewater church in Boissevain.

Have fun performers!!!!

💐Enjoy the show!!!💐