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The Guests of Honour Committee double-checking their lists. (photo:  Irena Meiklejohn, Rūta Žilinskienė, Aušra Karkienė.)

Last December 16, Dalia Viskontienė and Rita Radžiūnaitė  spent some time with the Montreal Lithuanian Choir, visiting with the singers and rehearsing part of the Song Festival repertoire with them.  We began the evening by welcoming our guests from Toronto with snacks and eggnog.  The mood was festive: everyone enjoyed the traditional “raguolis” cake that Dalia brought with her, and then the rehearsal began. read more…

After a full morning at Lithuanian Saturday School, three Toronto-based children‘s choirs assembled in the Resurrection Parish Hall on Saturday, February 26th, 2010 and spent the afternoon rehearsing their Song Festival repertoire. read more…

The Song Festival Concert will advance the Festival’s theme through the concept of the cycle of life. You will  enjoy a fusion of Lithuanian culture, traditions, folk and popular songs from both Lithuania and abroad. Our songs, including new songs commissioned especially for this Festival and composed in both North America and Lithuania, will be the link between the visual and the spoken components of the program. (photo:  Jurgis Sederavicius, Paulius Bongo Kolycius, Dalia Viskontienė, Zoe Dirse) read more…

Artist Snaige Sileika was born and raised in Toronto and studied at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts  in Paris.  She joined our team at the start of our endeavour and is responsible for all of the Festival‘s colour themes, visuals and graphics. Snaige created our logo, worked with our website designers, and was involved in planning our concert wear.

 Check out what’s being planned for your evening entertainment — follow the links on the Events page for details and updates.

Having undertaken the responsibility of organizing the Song Festival, we never imagined that so many people would volunteer to assist our efforts. Currently, there are about 100 of you, of all ages, generations, born both in Lithuania and here, and from all walks of life: professionals in their own right, successful business entrepreneurs, community leaders, musicians, composers, choir leaders – all of whom are contributing from their hearts and souls to create a Festival that will be a shining star in our Canadian Lithuanian undertakings. A heartfelt thank you to everyone! read more…

With Christmas celebrations now only a memory, just few months remain until we meet at the IX Song Festival in Toronto.

We’re very excited to announce present Marijonas Mikutavičius in concert on July 2.

Mikutavičius’ song “Velnias, man patinka Kalėdos” (”Damn, I Like Christmas”) was named the most popular Christmas song of the decade in Lithuania. Listen to it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTz7lStsu2I     read more…

Effective June 1, 2009, there has been a CHANGE TO THE TYPES OF TRAVEL DOCUMENTS required for INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL BY U.S. CITIZENS.  This applies when entering Canada and re-entering the U.S.

There are some exceptions for young travellers: read more…

 What a thrill to meet with my chorister friends again, three years after the amazing VIII Song Festival in Chicago. Those who didn‘t attend this seminar, eat your hearts out! Not only did you miss hearing the most exciting repetoire, but also the food – crepes with cheese, marinated chicken stuffed with apricots, kugelis, cepelinai and even šakotis! As Jurgita from St. Paul said:  “If we had had some napoleon torte, this truly would have been heaven on earth!“ Allow me to share a few highlights from this year‘s seminar. read more…