12th Annual Music Monday

An ensemble of Metro Vancouver elementary and secondary students will give a free public concert, May 2, 10am at Robson Square, as part of the 12^th annual Music Monday, a cross-Canada event to raise awareness for music education. Dr. Robert Taylor and Dr. Jonathan Girard from the University of British Columbia School of Music will conduct the mass performance with Canadian children’s singer and JUNO award-winning artist, Charlotte Diamond, emceeing the event.
 
More than 200 young musicians from Vancouver, Delta, Coquitlam, New Westminster, and North Vancouver will together be joined by members of the award-winning Vancouver Bach Choir, as well as the Royal Canadian Artillery’s Band of the 15^th Field Regiment, and the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Service band. The concert event will begin at 10am with all groups and students performing theMusic Monday anthem, We are One. The theme song selected following a nationwide competition in 2014 was written by then 16-year-old Connor Ross of Ontario.
 
Launched in 2005 by The Coalition for Music Education, Music Monday is the world’s largest single event dedicated to promoting music in schools. Music Monday is presented by the Coalition for Music Education in Canada, and sponsored by Tom Lee Music, Long & McQuade, Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, British Columbia Music Educators Association, Vancouver Opera, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.