About a dozen young musicians and actors will find out this week if they'll represent the Tri-Cities at a provincial festival.
More than 100 piano, speech arts and vocal competitors have been adjudicated at the Coquitlam District Music Festival, which began last month and wraps up tomorrow (Thursday) after a week of musical theatre acts under the eye of Gregory Cross.
There are a number of familiar names on the CDMF list vying to represent the district this spring in Powell River - among them, Julia MacLean, a Lindbjerg Academy of Performing Arts student who starred as Annie in last year's Royal City Musical Theatre production, and Tiana Jung, the 2014 CDMF rep in the senior musical theatre category.
CDMF spokesperson Thelka Wright said the competitors have travelled from across Metro Vancouver, from North Vancouver to Chilliwack.
And while the number of speech arts entrants is up this year, the musical theatre submissions have dropped, she said.
Oakville native Cross, who is judging both the speech arts and classical voice divisions, is also overseeing another festival plus the provincials in New Brunswick this year.
He said the young talent is "always so impressive."
Wright added this year's CDMF includes performances by a six-year-old speech arts competitor as well as a 10-year-old pianist who is studying for her teacher's diploma with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
The CDMF winners will be publicly announced on Sunday, March 29 at 6 p.m. at the honours concert at Hyde Creek community church (2145 Nova Scotia Ave., Port Coquitlam); admission is by donation.
This year's Performing Arts BC festival takes place May 26 to 30.
