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For immediate release February 18, 2004 Music Makers set to begin Alberta schools tour The Banff Centre's Music Makers — a group of four professional Canadian musicians from the Centre’s winter residency program — are tuning up for a month-long tour of southern Alberta elementary schools starting February 24. This year's production, The Magic Radio, will use time travellers to introduce children to different musical genres and traditions. Performances finish with a question period and interactive session with the students. The Music Makers will visit schools in Cochrane and Exshaw (February 24 and March 8), Banff (February 26), Canmore (February 27 and March 12), Wetaskawin (March 17 and 18), Red Deer (March 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25), and Sylvan Lake (March 25). "These presentations offer children the excitement of musical exploration and introduce the idea that with imagination, and a few basic materials, we can all explore and create music," says Isobel Moore Rolston, artistic director/executive producer of Music & Sound at The Banff Centre. The Music Makers tour, presented by Music & Sound at The Banff Centre, was launched 10 years ago as an outreach program to enhance the quality of musical experiences in smaller communities and to develop future audiences of young people. Each year, the Music Makers develop, create, and produce an educational music program. They hit the road in a van with their own props, instruments, and a stage manager. This year's Music Makers include: Graham Flett (Toronto), composition, piano and guitar; Nicholas Jacques (Edmonton), percussion; Vanessa May-lok Lee (Victoria), piano; and Jonas Thompson (St. Albert), composition and saxophone. Scholarship support for the Music Makers program is generously provided by ENMAX. – 30 – Downloadable images are available.
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