Volunteer

Looking to volunteer at our upcoming festival? Contact Nicola Johntson at nicola2848@hotmail.com or Phone/text: 780-906-3238 

1. Greet people entering the venue.

2. Check off the participant's name in your copy of the program.

3. Collect the participant’s music to give to the secretary.

4. Make sure participants have original music (no photocopies) and that the music has the name of the owner and participant with their phone number on it.

5. Make sure the participants have properly tagged the piece(s) they are performing, and that the music has the measures numbered at the beginning of each line of music.

6. Invite participants and other attendees to relax quietly while they wait for the secretary to announce their class number. *Please note: participants may already be in the room watching the prior session.

7. Ensure no one enters or leaves the venue during a performance or adjudication. Attendees may enter in-between performances.

8. Occasionally check bathrooms to see if toilet tissue or paper towel needs to be replenished.

9. Help tidy the venue in preparation for the next session.

10. If you are unable to answer any questions asked of you, please direct any individuals who need help to a PMF committee member.

You will find in your information report cover: 1) Code of Conduct; 2) Program to check off names.

If you need any assistance, please contact a PMF committee member.

Thank you for your support of the Parkland Music Festival! Without your time and effort, we could not provide a quality music festival for our participants. THANK YOU!

1. Ensure the correct certificates are ready for the upcoming set of classes. These are found in the Adjudicator Folder. Have the adjudicator sign if they have not already done so.

2. Ensure adjudication comment sheets and ‘marks’ pages are in the correct order for the upcoming set of classes.

3. Announce names AND numbers of the next set of classes to those waiting outside the room for classes. Lead them inside.

4. Collect all music from the door monitor at the beginning of the set of classes.

5. After the participants have entered the venue, welcome the audience and performers and announce the name and number of the set of classes once again. Refer to the script provided.

6. Remind the audience to remain quiet and to SILENCE ALL CELL PHONES and that flash photography is not allowed. Ask that a student be video-recorded only by their parent or guardian, and that video recording of the adjudication or other student’s performance is not permitted.

7. Remind participants that they are to announce their name, the piece(s), and composer(s) prior to performing. In Recital and Concert classes, announce them all at once and perform them as a set. (A short pause is appropriate after each selection.) EXCEPTION! For Musical Theatre pieces, the secretary will need to announce the pieces, musical, and composer, as participants come on ‘in character’.

8. Remind the audience that they should remain until the end of the session.

9. Introduce the adjudicator using the short bio provided. Refer to the script provided.

10. Lead applause after adjudicator introduction and after all performances.

11. Call up the first performer - both first and last name. Please stand and face the audience so that you may be better heard.

12. Call up each successive performer in order as soon as the adjudicator is ready (make sure the adjudicator is not distracted from writing comments).

13. Ensure the adjudicator has correct music and comment sheets for each performer.

14. Return participant’s music and include completed comment sheet and signed certificate following their adjudication.

15. After final adjudication, INVITE ATTENDEES TO THE SHOWCASE CONCERT to be held on Sunday, April 7th, 2024, at St. Andrew’s United Church, starting at 7 pm. Inform the audience that any scholarships will be awarded at the Showcase concert.

16. Invite attendees to stay unless it is the final class of a session.

17. THANK THE PERFORMERS, AUDIENCE, AND ADJUDICATOR. Lead applause and dismissal to foyer.

18. Help tidy up the venue in preparation for the next set of classes.

19. Start again at the top for the next set of classes.

20. If you are unable to answer any questions asked of you, please direct any individuals who need help to a PMF committee member.

Thank you for your support of the Parkland Music Festival! Without your time and effort, we could not provide a quality music festival for our participants. THANK YOU!