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Get the Peak to Go iPhone app now available in the App Store or iTunes MUSICAL TOUR: Choir of Maritime University of Szczecin, Poland, arrived in Powell River on July 1 after completing a pre-Kathaumixw tour on the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and Gabriola Island with local tour guides Cindy Dalcourt and Peggy Ogloff. Other tours will be guided by Andre Dalcourt, Nancy and Alex Hollman, Carol Stokes and Inge-Lore Freeman. ROBERT COLASANTO PHOTO
Choir program connects communities Tours bring music of Kathaumixw to province and beyond SARA DONNELLY community@prpeak.com
Since its inception in 1984, International Choral Kathaumixw festival has grown in size and reputation. The 18th biennial event owes its success to the countless individuals in Powell River and beyond who volunteer their time and open their homes to visiting singers from around the world. One of the popular offshoots of the festival is the touring
program, which involves participating choirs visiting communities throughout the province and beyond. The program was initially devised by Richard Hibberd, a founding member of the Kathaumixw festival, as a way to support Powell River Academy of Music while bringing the music and cultural exchange of Kathaumixw to a wider audience. Hibberd passed away last year at the age of 91, but the legacy of the tours program he founded continues to build. “He created this because he wanted a way to help the academy and to keep it growing” said current tour committee member Pam Wadden. In the early days of the Kathaumixw festival, Hibberd used his connections as a member of the BC Choral Federation to get the tour program off the ground and $479,000 LOVELY MODULAR
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organized the bulk of logistics on his own. “I came on board to help out in 1990,” said Hibberd’s sister Shirley Koleszar. “I had retired from teaching and started working with Richard because it was just too much to do on his own.” Betty Norman joined the tour committee in 1992 and remains part of the current organizing group along with Wadden, Martin Osbourne, Lee Coulter and Cindy Dalcourt. “Back when they started doing this it was before computers, before email,” said Wadden. “Everything was written down on paper.” Today, technology helps the organizers, but there is still a huge amount of work that goes into pulling off a successful tour, she added. »2
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