Festivals

We’re experts in performance arts tours.

Performance arts tours are at the heart of how our company started, and remain an area of specialty. The Schools Out Tours management team consists of musicians, teachers and conductors who know how to make your ensemble’s tour a success.

These music festivals offer exceptional performance and educational opportunities for bands, choirs, and orchestras. Schools Out Tours can develop a tour package for your ensemble that seamlessly integrates the festival into your tour. To learn more, get in touch!

We keep things simple and stress-free by designing integrated tour/festival packages. Your package fee typically includes:

  • Round-trip transportation
  • All overnight stays in hotels
  • All festival registration fees
  • Breakfast and supper daily
  • A detailed itinerary of guided sightseeing, city tours, and group events
  • Overnight security at the hotel
Schools Out Tours has organized yet another excellent trip for my junior high school band. This allows me to focus on the important stuff.. the music, while I can trust that SOT has planned the “fun stuff”!! We always have a great trip, learn a lot and come back better musicians.
Kirsten MacLaineGulf Shore Consolidated SchoolPEI
I will be planning all future trips with Schools Out Tours! I highly recommend any musical groups to contact Sue and Ron. Our trip was perfect. Honestly – couldn’t have gone better. We all had a blast and the musical aspects were perfect. Thanks for your hard work and care in planning all aspects of our trip.
Dina BurttLockview High SchoolNS
Thanks to everyone who looked after all the details for our trip to Halifax. Our clinicians were great, travel wonderful, and security much appreciated. Food excellent, accommodation excellent. Staff was wonderful. It was smooth from beginning to end.
Jenet ClementJenet Clement, CharlottetownPEI
I just wanted to thank you for arranging the fabulous trip to Halifax. The kids loved it and we have heard nothing but positive comments on their experiences.
Anna Marie AlteenCorner Brook Regional HighNL
As a veteran of some 28 band trips, I can truly say that none have been as well organized and stress-free as the last half dozen that I have done with Schools Out Tours. Band Directors certainly have enough to worry about without the added pressure of coordinating the many logistics necessary to have a successful band trip. Schools Out Tours continues to provide incredible service to our groups at CBRH. I do not envision travelling without them again!
Darren WhiteCorner Brook Regional High SchoolNL
What an absolutely fantastic time my students and I had on our trip to PEI. Because of our itinerary students were busy (and happy!) from the time they woke up to the time they went to bed. One student even said to me, “I knew it would be fun, but I didn’t think it would be THIS fun! All my chaperones agreed that they had never been on a more stress free and relaxing trip. Thank you to everyone for such a well planned, educational, and fun itinerary. Looking forward to planning our next adventure through Schools Out Tours.
Sarah MacDonaldOceanview Education CentreNB
Our PEI trip with Soundtrax and Halifax All City Jazz was a huge success, thanks to the exceptional planning and organization of Schools Out Tours.
David StaplesHalifax Schools Music Dept.NS
Just wanted to send an e-mail and say we all had a great (as usual) SOT Tour!! Our Tour Guide, and bus driver were both wonderful too. Nice to have two such people to accompany us around Halifax and to all our events and activities. Thanks for all your work and service on behalf of my Music students. Hoping to make the Atlantic Festival of Music next year!
Ann Marie LaneBaccalieu CollegiateNL
It was a wonderful trip! The pacing was perfect, and we stayed on schedule for the entire trip. We were driving in the school yard at 10:56 last night! The kids loved Michael (SOT Tour Co-ordinator), and I was so relieved to have someone along with us the entire way to look after any issues that came up. He is so very competent! And stays calm (at least outwardly, which is what counts) in the face of anything we could throw at him. Thanks again! The kids will remember this forever!
Kay GreeneWest Hants Middle SchoolNS
Traveling with Schools Out Tours made our trip planning easy and remarkably stress-free. Ron and Mike were incredibly easy to work with and anxious to ensure the trip was a great experience for our students.
Paul HuttenCentral Kings High SchoolNS

Atlantic Festivals of Music

One of Canada’s finest music festivals, taking place annually in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The festival helps thousands of participants from schools and community organizations worldwide perform, learn, grow as musicians, and have fun!

AFM features world-class adjudicators and clinicians, inspiring feature concerts, and much more. The festival is organized by the management team at Schools Out Tours.

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Canada

Musicfest Canada

MusicFest Canada is an annual national event held in May that brings together more than 10,000 of Canada’s finest young musicians who perform for recognition as the country’s foremost musical ensembles. Participants range in age from 12-25 years and are drawn from the elementary, high school, college and university levels.

musicfest.ca

Rhythms Canada

Rhythms Canada hosts non-competitive festivals throughout Canada and the US that are based on group participation where everyone leaves a winner for having participated and done their best.

rhythmscanada.com

Unisong

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity lets your choir join a mass ensemble of hundreds, in a performance that is at the heart of festivities in Ottawa on Canada Day.

unisong.ca

International Choral Kathaumixw

The International Choral Kathaumixw is a 5 day choral festival filled with concerts, common song singing, choral & vocal solo competitions, conductor’s seminars and social events. The festival is a place where all can learn from each other and from world renowned choral personalities.

kathaumixw.org

Con Brio Festivals

Three-day non-competitive festivals held annually in beautiful British Columbia at Whistler Village and Sun Peaks Village. Band, Orchestra and Choral camps culminate in a massed choir of over 500 singers, massed strings, and massed bands of over 1,000 instrumentalists.

conbriofestivals.ca

USA & International

Festival Disney

Festival Disney is open to middle and high school bands and choirs. After sprucing up your performance skills and gaining a competitive edge, seize the opportunity to explore the magic of the Walt Disney World Resort theme parks!

disneyyouth.com

Europa Cantat

The festival brings together thousands of participants coming from all over Europe and the world to share their passion for singing. Whether you are a lover of culture and art or seek culinary delights, Europa Cantat has something to offer that will not fail to impress.

europeanchoralassociation.org

Chicago

Young Prague Festival

Join choirs, bands, and orchestras from around the world at Young Prague, one of the most culturally diverse and enjoyable European festivals for young musicians.

WorldStride Heritage Festivals

National adjudicated and competitive music festivals in more than 20 cities across North America for school choral & instrumental groups. Your ensemble will perform for nationally acclaimed adjudicators, learn from their feedback, and be inspired to new heights as a result of the entire experience. With more than 70 events available each spring, your students will explore a new city and deepen their bonds with classmates.

worldstrides.com

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