WEYBURN – The best performances from the Weyburn Rotary Music Festival were featured at the Stars of the Festival on Wednesday evening at the Cugnet Centre, with awards and scholarships presented to the musicians in piano, vocal and instrumental categories, selected by the adjudicators.
In addition, selected winners gave performances throughout the evening to provide the audience with a taste of the talents who competed during the music festival for the adjudicators.
The evening was opened by the Grade 8 band from St. Michael School, who played O Canada then two selections, as they had won the Prairie Sky Co-op prize of $300 and a shield for best performance by a band.
Western Financial provided two medals for piano performances, won by Moriah Edinborough and Alexandra Jose.
The Weyburn Elementary Schools Community Councils provided a prize of $75 and a shield to the Assiniboia Park Grade 2 for the Group Choral Speech Award.
The Weyburn Music Festival medals for vocals went to Ryan Hansen, Maynuelle Ofalla, Isabelle Cugnet, Natalie Ramsay and Alexandra Jose.
The Margaret Cugnet award for piano duet, a prize of $200, went to Grace Anderson and Sydnee Thiessen.
The TRG Bookkeeping medal for piano went to Jameson Donnelly, Josie Cugnet, Lydia Sawatzky and Kassandra Madriaga.
The Quota International of Weyburn prize of $50 for vocal, four in total, went to Assiniboia Park Grade 3, Assiniboia Park Grade 4, and the duets of Lila and Bradie Anderson, and Isabelle Cugnet and Pressley Barber.
The Weyburn Music Festival trophies for piano performance went to Nathan Cornish, Ava Dela Cruz, Alexander Dela Cruz, and Grace Hall.
The Alexandria Rebekah Lodge prize of $100 and a shield for vocal performance went to Lila Anderson and Avryelle Molnar.
The YF Wives prize of $100 and a shield went to Legacy Park Gr. 4-6, and the Weyburn Comp Junior Choir.
Weimer’s Hometown provided prizes in the categories of band, vocal and piano. For band, the $75 prize went to the Legacy Park Grade 6 mixed ensemble; for vocal, the $75 prize went to Isabelle Cugnet; and for piano, $50 prizes went to Hently Bahingawan, Maynuelle Ofalla and Donald Alexander.
The Holy Family school board prize of $125 for vocal went to the Spirit of Grace Junior group, who performed a medley of songs from the musical Annie.
The Western Financial Group prize of $50 for instrumental went to Donald Alexander.
The Weyburn Security multi-disciplinary prize of $150 went to Lindsay Van De Weyer.
The Quota International prize of $50 for band went to Assiniboia Park’s Grade 5-6 band, and the Assiniboia Grade 4 band.
The Arleigh Pulfer Memorial prize of $100 and trophy for piano went to David Sorowski.
The Shirley Bartlett Memorial award for vocal, with a prize of $200 and a trophy, went to Lindsay Van De Weyer.
The Weyburn Security prize of $300 for vocal went to Keira Mahnke.
The Order of the Eastern Star prizes of $50 for piano went to Lydia Sawatzky and Heidi Penner.
The Southeast Cornerstone prize of $300 for band went to the WCS senior jazz band.
The Weyburn Security prize of $300 for piano went to Felicia Deal.
The Weyburn Music Festival trophy for instrumental went to Caroline Walter.
The Knights of Columbus prize of $50 for vocal went to Liam Evans.
The SE Cornerstone prize of $200 for vocal went to the APES Combined Choir.
The Orpheus Club trophy for vocal went to Donald Alexander.
The Andrew Agencies prizes of $100 for piano went to Sydnee Thiessen and Judah Sawatzky.
The St. Michael School Community Council prizes of $50 for band went to Isaiah Perdis and Natalie Butz.
The Rotary Club Library Award of $200 for vocal went to Owen Burdan.
The Weyburn Arts Council prize of $150 for piano went to Felicia Deal.
The Mary Johnston Memorial prize of $125 for vocal went to Donald Alexander.
The Knights of Columbus prize of $225 and a trophy for band was presented to the WCS Grade 9 band.
The Weyburn Credit Union prizes for piano went to Ben Jebelli and Benjamin Sawatzky.
Weyburn Community Involvement prize of $100 for band went to the WCS Grade 7 band.
The Stewart Steel prize of $500 for vocal went to Lindsay Van De Weyer.
The Weyburn Credit Union prize of $125 for vocal went to the RISE Men, who sang the Beatles song, “Hard Day’s Night”.
The Royal Canadian Legion prize of $75 and a shield for band went to the St. Michael School Jazz Band.
The Weyburn Young Fellows Club prize of $300 for band went to the WCS Senior Band.
The Jerry Mainil Ltd. prize of $400 for vocal went to Donald Alexander.
The June Barber Memorial Award for piano, to provide $125 towards travel expenses for students going to provincials, went to Lindsay Van De Weyer, Donald Alexander, Keira Mahnke, Isabelle Cugnet and Avryelle Molnar.
The Alex Findlay Memorial prize of $600 for piano went to Lindsay Van De Weyer.
The Barber Motors prize of $300 for vocal went to the WCS Senior Choir, who also provided the evening’s final performance.
