Welcome!
Music Festivals & Tours begins its thirty-fourth year as North America's leader in offering the finest, most affordable festivals and tours for high school, junior high and middle school choirs, bands, and orchestras. We also have performance tour programs for College/University ensembles. We offer our thanks to the thousands of directors from across the U.S. and Canada who have supported our festivals over the past thirty-three years.
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Statement concerning COVID-19 and our Spring Festivals in April & May:
We
are monitoring the situation concerning COVID-19 as things are changing
daily and even hourly. The Amusement Parks and other Attractions we use
are sending us notices on their plans with park openings and operating
procedures. At this time, for parks that are open now, they are closing
down until the end of March and others are delaying their openings to
April. Some parks don’t even open until late April or May and at this
time, are planning on opening as scheduled. For Festivals where we do
not use an amusement park for the “featured” attraction, we are in
contact with them as well.
We are working with our Regional
Coordinators, all who are directors at the schools or in the school
system we use to host the festivals, are keeping tabs on school closures
that may affect our facilities that we use to host the festivals.
Again, this changes daily but at this time, all of our Music Showcase
Festivals and Music Festivals events that are being held in the middle
of April and May are still planned as scheduled. Again, we will continue
to monitor the situation and update and contact directors if this
changes.
Cruise Lines that we use have suspended operations for
the month of March and the beginning of April. Royal Caribbean and
Carnival Cruise Lines have announced they will resume cruises on April
10. Schools that are on one of our cruise festivals that happen later in
the spring, please contact our office as each cruise line has put
policies in place to handle cancellations and re-booking for another
cruise date.
Please know that we are all in this together and we
will work with each director to assure you that if you have to cancel we
will work with you. Each festival location, hotels, restaurants, etc.,
have different policies in place, so we have to work with you on a case
by case basis.
Thank you for your support of our festival
program. Keeping you and your students, our staff, our team of
Coordinators and their team that run our festivals, as safe as possible
is our first priority. Since this is uncharted territory, no one knows
how long COVID-19 will be around or how it will continue to affect
events around the country. We will update this statement as situations
change.
We hope if you have registered and your school system has
not made any decisions on participation, that you will still plan to
attend our festival. If you are still thinking of registering please do
so with confidence as we are monitoring the situation and will make
decisions as the April and May festivals get closer. Again, we
appreciate your support and we will all get through this together! At this time the Governor of PA has issued all businesses that are non-essential life busineeses to close down. What this means we are not allowed into the office at all until further notice. We will only be able to communicate via email and will get back to you as soon as possible.
Stay healthy!
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