Every spring, the Helen Creighton Folklore Society (HCFS) offers monetary awards for folk music and speech categories to provincial music festivals in Nova Scotia. Those festivals usually occur in Annapolis Valley, Lunenburg County, New Glasgow, Queens County, Truro, and the Kiwanis Festivals in Halifax and Sydney.
Last year we gave $400 in donations but, thanks in part to the availability of our Traditional Folk Songs songbook, in 2025 the HCFS gave 12 awards of $50 each to students from five of the seven music festivals in Nova Scotia. Including those who tied and shared their awards, they were: Lily Arthurs, Saryn Bezeau, Norah Bonnell, Thea Cavicci, Evalyn Cumminger, Adam Davis, Easton Goodwin, Rylan Hislop, Aurelia Jackson, Aria Melong, Theodore Sommers, Scarlett Whynot, Calliana Zwicker, and the Sandy Lake Academy Elementary Choir. We congratulate them, and wish them continued success.
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