SPOKANE -- Musicfest Northwest, a festival to encourage involvement in the arts by young people, is now accepting applications.
The festival will be May 9-14 in Spokane.
Musicfest includes ballet, brass, flute, guitar, organ, percussion, piano, reed, string and voice divisions. Entrants will receive an individual written and oral evaluation of their performances.
Applications are available at Keeney Brothers in Moscow, Moscow High School, Pullman High School, the University of Idaho and Washington State University schools of music and Moscow and Pullman libraries.
The deadline for applications is March 1.