MyFestival

a new generation in solo and ensemble festivals

SoloFestival.com - serving music festivals since 1984

Welcome to MyFestival.  This service provides an inexpensive way for you to automate your solo and ensemble festival.  It is designed to help with the most difficult tasks associated with a festival and improve the overall experience for everyone concerned.

MyFestival helps with the three phases of the entry and scheduling process:

1. Entry Submission - Submission of the student entry information;
2. Schedule Preparation - Preparing the schedule for your festival; and
3. Schedule Review - Schedule review by directors, accompanists and students.

Entry Submission - During this phase, students complete their entry forms and submit them to their director along with the entry fee.  The directors use MyFestival to submit the entries online.  Directors also print a summary list of their entries to give to the host director along with a check from the school for the total of all submitted entries.

Schedule Preparation - During this phase, a schedule is prepared by Kilgore Computing Services (KCS).  The schedule is made available on your MyFestival website approximately one week after the data submission phase is completed.

Schedule Review - During this phase, all participants (directors, accompanists, and students) use MyFestival to review their own individual schedule.  Any time conflicts are reported to the website contact for resolution.

There are two plans available:

1. Host Directed Plan - This plan allows you (or a parent) to serve as the point of contact on your website.  The web contact answers the email questions and makes the changes to the schedule (late entries, changes in accompanist, changes in performance time, etc.) that are needed.  The cost of this plan is $2 per time slot scheduled.
    
2. KCS Directed Plan - This plan provides a web contact for you, allows accompanists to submit their own lists of students to be accompanied, permits online late entries by directors and has more extensive reporting.  The cost of this plan is $4 per time slot scheduled.

A complete list of the differences between the two plans is shown in the table below.

Preview of Host Directed Website  The best way to understand how a host directed website works is to try one out for yourself.

The directors part of the site shows how directors submit their performances data.

The festival hosts part of the site shows how to monitor director entries, finalize your schedule and print the reports.

When you decide which scheduling plan best fits your needs, then download and complete the contract.

: Press this button to download the contract (PDF).

Mail the signed contract to KCS at the address indicated.  Your website will be available for use within a week of receipt of the contract and you will receive an email when it is ready.  Feel free to contact us by Email if you have any questions.