Festival Of Small Halls ‘Music in the Schools’

The Ontario Festival of Small Halls has initiated a pilot music program in select rural Ontario schools bringing a musical artist in to perform and demo live music to elementary school assemblies. The program is taking place the week leading up to the launch of Festival of Small Halls in late September 2025. Locations chosen for the first year include schools in Maxville Ontario, Russell, Perth, Lyndhurst, Elgin, Almonte, Lanark, Omeeeme and Norwood.

Owen Sound artist Coco Love Alcorn performing to students at Russell Public School. Coco wrote songs with students, demoed live looping techniques, sang songs and shared her love of singing and creating. Seen here, Coco is collecting random words from students to generate ideas for a song.