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Montana International Choral Festival brings international choirs to Denison Theater, includes Indigenous land acknowledgement
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The 2025 Montana International Choral Festival at the University of Montana’s Denison Theater featured choirs from around the world, a land acknowledgement for local Indigenous peoples and named First Security Bank as a concert sponsor, festival hosts said.
The 2025 Montana International Choral Festival at the University of Montana’s Denison Theater featured choirs from around the world and included a land acknowledgement and sponsor recognition, festival host Michael Marsalek said as the event opened.
The festival’s afternoon program includes concerts this afternoon and evening and continues tomorrow, with “a big finale on Sunday,” Marsalek said. Dean Peterson, conductor of the Missoula Symphony Chorale, delivered the event’s land acknowledgement: “The Montana International Choral Festival acknowledges that we are in the Aboriginal territories of the Salish and Kalispel people,” he said, adding that the festival honors…
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