Dearest Gentlereaders, 

It is time for one of the most anticipated events of the season: the Windwood Salon. This event features the internationally renowned musicians of the Windwood Music Festival, tantalizing treats from Brella Vida’s very own Chef Matt, and a most elegant group of attendees: you. When you arrive at Brella Vida, you will be greeted with a beverage of your choice as platters of food appear around you. Throughout the afternoon, you will be serenaded, entertained, and roused to dance by the exquisite sounds of strings and piano. Come dressed in your most elegant ensemble, and you just may be crowned Windwood’s Diamond of the Season. What’s not to love? We dearly hope that you will honour us with your presence for this grand end to Windwood Music Festival’s Fifth Season.

Windwood Music Festival presents the climax of the season with our outdoor festival “Community Arrivals!” Featuring the musicians of the Windwood Music Festival, Calgary Civic Low Brass Ensemble, local youth musicians, food trucks, vendors, and local community organizations, this full-day event celebrates the ways in which we each thrive when our community thrives. Bring your friends, your families, and your pets, and join us in this celebration of music, land, and people! FREE admission!

The Windwood Music Festival presents “Season V: Arrivals,” an evening of story and song to kick off its fifth season! Featuring internationally-renowned classical musicians alongside local legends, this event celebrates five years of Windwood and the city that we call home, Airdrie. This program features classical hits such as Anton Arensky’s luscious piano trio, Felix Mendelssohn’s fiery Octet featuring Windwood alumni and resident artists, Shelley Washington’s Middleground, a beautiful homage to the lands we give our hearts to, and Alanis Morisette’s Hand in Pocket, featuring Airdrie’s very own Mayor Heather Spearman. The evening will end with an audience choice piece and a reception where we will cut the cake to celebrate 5 years of Windwood!

Get your tickets here!! https://tickets.airdrie.ca/EventAvailability?EventId=14201

The Windwood Music Festival presents “Mountain Meditations: An Afternoon of Chamber Music” at St. George’s in the Pines. Featuring internationally renowned musicians, this afternoon event provides a space for audiences to meditate on the natural beauty of Banff through classical music. Feel the lushness of the forests and the flow of water through Anton Arensky’s piano trio, fall into a meditative trance listening Petris Vasks’s String Quartet, feel the majesty of trees in Pauline Oliveros’ Tree/peace, feel the beauty of movement in Rebecca Clark’s Dumka, and feel the grandeur of life in Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet. This event celebrates the awe of nature through classical music in a meditative atmosphere where audiences are invited to reflect and share in moments of introspection. Suggested donation: $15.

Join our admin artists for an afternoon of chamber music! Free tickets can be reserved here: https://thevaultonline.ca/collections/tickets

Windwood Music Festival presents the climax of the season with our outdoor festival “Wanting to Start Again: A Community Celebration!” Featuring the musicians of the Windwood Music Festival, Calgary Civic Low Brass Ensemble, E.N.I., Gabrial Morris, local youth musicians, food trucks, vendors, and local community organizations, this full-day event celebrates the ways in which we each thrive when our community thrives. Bring your friends, your families, and your pets, and join us in this celebration of music, land, and people!

The Windwood Music Festival’s "Wanting to Start Again: Opening Concert" kicks off the festival's fourth season. This multimedia, classical, and contemporary concert explores themes of man vs nature, taking us through journeys of land, water, machine, and... a carrot revolution?? Through the works of Barbara Croall, Vivian Fung, Gabriela Smith, Florence Reece, Reid Conteras Woelfle, Edward Elgar, and Aaron Copland the Windwood musicians will explore what it means to be alive alongside nature.

The Windwood Music Festival comes to the mountains to share this festival’s theme: “wanting to start again.” This contemporary classical concert explores the question: when we are at our lowest, when the problems feel too large to solve, how do we start again? Featuring works by Croall, Higdon, Beethoven, Price, the Danish String Quartet, and Hisaishi, we invite you to join us on a musical journey that reminds us that sometimes the climb is worth it when we see the view from above.

This event is a double billing featuring the oboe-piano duo, Fierbois, and Windwood’s founding violin-piano duo, DoSi (formerly Duo Perdendosi) to introduce audiences to this year’s Windwood Festival theme of “wanting to start again.” The contemporary classical concert will open with Fierbois, who will take you on a journey from Mozart to modern composers like Jocelyn Morlock and Harry Stafylakis, and features Oscar Peterson’s musical depiction of the Canadian landscapes including the Wheatlands that surround us. For the second half of the concert, DoSi will take you through rivers, fields of flowers, mountains, a world not here nor there, and back to the homes where we danced our first dance. This is a journey of what makes us human, and in the end, what brings us back when we are lost. Join us for “It Takes Two: A duo concert for starting again” and celebrate starting again with us. 

Music, Fine Food, Drinks and Connection. Appreciation of all involved that has made Windwood Festival III possible.