November 04, 2005 -

After six weeks of preparation, students from Prince Albert Grand Council schools in Saskatchewan will play music with eight members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra brass section on Monday, Nov. 7. 

The Prince Albert Grand Council Recorder Project takes place at 1:30 pm at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts in Prince Albert, SK and will feature the NACO brass octet and up to 65 children from three elementary schools within the Prince Albert Grand Council – a first nation tribal council in northern Saskatchewan. The student participants will open the performance with traditional dancing and drumming in a grand entry representative of their own cultural traditions. The event is open to the public.

For more information, contact:
Mary Gordon
Communications Advisor
National Arts Centre
(613) 947-7000 x 524

Jane Morris
Communications Officer (on tour)
National Arts Centre Orchestra
(613) 947-7000 x 335
Cell: (613) 302-0727

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The NAC gratefully acknowledges the support of SaskEnergy for the PAGC Recorder Project.

Yamaha Canada and local distributor St John’s Music in Saskatoon supported the PAGC Recorder Project by supplying recorders, method books and partial funding for recorder clinics.

The National Arts Centre plays a national role in education and community outreach, and in the use of new technology to reach Canadians from coast to coast.

The NAC Orchestra Alberta-Saskatchewan Tour is supported by Alberta Presenting Sponsor EPCOR and Saskatchewan Presenting Sponsor CN, with additional Major Support in Alberta from CN.  Bell is the Technology Sponsor in Alberta. The Tour’s Education Sponsors are ConocoPhillips in Alberta and SaskEnergy in Saskatchewan. True Energy Inc. is the Saskatchewan Community Sponsor. Special funding for the Tour’s education programs is provided by Education Donor CIBC, National Arts Centre Friends – Alberta and donors to the NAC’s National Youth and Education Trust. The National Post is the Tour’s National Media Partner.

Special thanks to the Interdepartmental Partnership with the Official-Language Communities (IPOLC) and supporters of the National Youth and Education Trust.

Follow the tour online at www.artsalive.ca