The Sooke music and Art festival is a free, family-friendly, music and art festival held in the heart of Sooke each summer, every year since 2016. The event showcases live music, an artist village, plenty of food trucks, a spirit garden, and a number of vendors.
The festival showcases known and unknown musical acts from Vancouver Island. There is so much talent here on the island they didn't need to look any further. They also feature visual artists of all types.
For this year's festival, please visit them their Facebook page or their website.
It's more fun than a barrel of Monkeys.
The Sooke Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1997 by Norman Nelson and is now in its 26th year. It performed its first concert in June 1998. The orchestra has more than 60 members, ranging between 30 and 80 years of age, from all over the region. The SPO includes the Sooke Philharmonic Chorus, led by Choral Director Nicholas Fairbank. The SPO now performs regularly in the Westshore area.
The SPO sponsors the annual Don Chrysler Concerto Competition for Young Musicians. The winner usually performs with the orchestra at the next fall concert.
Supported by many dedicated volunteers, the SPO has grown to become the major musical presence it is today. We are inviting interested classical music enthusiasts from Sooke and the Westshore to get involved by joining the Sooke Philharmonic Society and helping to sustain this vital community resource.
Thanks to the efforts of the performers, of Maestro Nelson and our current music director Yariv Aloni, the Sooke Phil is indeed recognized as “one of Canada’s finest community orchestras”.
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