Steamboat Mountain Music Festival 2021

 

A tenth-year anniversary is a big deal! Any event that can deliver joy and music to the valley every summer, year after year, rain or shine, deserves to be celebrated.  Last year, the festival went online on the Steamboat website by way of twelve videos featuring our 2020 local and regional performers. Those videos are still available on our YouTube channel, linked below.

 

This year, the BC Arts Council has awarded the Steamboat Society a special cultural resiliency grant which will be used to deliver the Festival in yet another different way. The plan is to create a double volume CD of all local, all original music. 

 

For right now, the CD is the main focus. Local musicians are invited to join the roster with their original compositions. Musicians will be paid for their performances and some rehearsal time. Artists who helped build the Steamboat Festival over the years by performing on our main stage and our tweener stage will be given priority in selection, but certainly all local musicians are welcome to get in touch too. The songs will be recorded by professional technicians and produced in a final package that will be made available for sale. 

 

The Society will take pre-orders which will be ready later in the summer, hopefully at a time that will coincide with a live Steamboat concert event. 

 

Interested performers are asked to contact Program Director John MacRobbie: canmaces@gmail.com

 

When large live outdoor gatherings are permitted once again, Steamboat will hold a live event in Edgewater to celebrate Columbia Valley music. Details will not be announced until closer to that unknown time. The organizing committee will have to work with uncertainties and come up with fun-filled concert plans. When the time comes, Steamboat will chug on and help live local music to rise again.