Eastside Music Teacher’s
 8th Annual Ribbon Festival

**please download the Ribbon Festival Committee Job Description here (.doc document)**

The Ribbon Festival is an event sponsored by the Eastside Music Teachers Association, a chapter of the Washington State Music Teacher’s Association.  Its purpose is to provide an enjoyable way to motivate students and aid them in developing essential musicianship skills. 

Participants may enter different events including solos, duets, Baroque-era repertoire, original compositions, Scale Olympics, 60-second scale challenge, and music theory. This is an opportunity for solo/duet performance and classroom instruction beyond the private studio setting, where a variety of musical topics will be offered in a hands-on learning environment.  Workshops in topics such as improvisation, guitar and baroque dance will be offered.  Read on for more details!

This Festival is a non-competitive, non-adjudicated event.  Participants receive a ribbon for every event they complete. Each event is divided into levels so that beginners, as well as more advanced performers, may participate.

Date, Time and Location

The Ribbon Festival will be held on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at Cedar Park Assembly of God in Bothell.  Cost is $25 for students of Eastside members.  Students studying with a teacher that is not a member of the Eastside chapter may enroll for a cost of $140 per student.  An adult must accompany each student at the Festival.

Registration is due by the November business meeting, November 23rd.  Schedules will be mailed to participating teachers by the first week of January, (hopefully earlier).  

Teachers will be required to provide four (4) hours of staff time at the event per every five students entered.  Teachers entering fewer than five students will still be expected to do a four-hour shift.  The first four hours must be covered by the teacher. Subsequent staffing time can be covered by an adult associated with the teacher’s studio (parent of student, adult student over age 16, etc.)  Volunteer shifts will be done in one-hour blocks of time; volunteers are encouraged to sign up for more than one block.  Parents that volunteer may request to be scheduled to staff classes and workshops that their children are scheduled in. Names and contact information for all festival staff and volunteers must be included with registration forms. 

Registration forms will be available on the chapter website at www.eastsidemusicteachers.org, and registration packets will be available at the October business meeting, or can be picked up from Sherman Clay. Carmen Still is the Festival chair, and is best reached by email at stills1@verizon.net.  Otherwise, call her at (425) 821-9816.

Ribbon Events & Class Information

The Festival's downlodable files: Year 2010 ~ please download for reading and printing ~

Registration Packet Infomation (.doc file)

For Registration Form (Excel file)

Scale Olympics Exam with notes (.doc file)

Staff Registration Form (.docx file)

Duet Partners and STG Registration Form (.docx file)