A group of Nelson voice/speech arts students will be heading to Vancouver Island at the end of the month for the Provincial Music Festival. The students were chosen from the Kootenay Festival of the Arts that was held last month in Nelson. Those attending the festival in Nanaimo on May 27 to 31 include: (front R-L) Galen Boulanger (junior vocal classical and variety class), Sebastian Bodine (junior speech arts), Jennifer Walsh (observer junior vocal and speech arts), Michael Marsland (observer junior musical theatre); (back row L-R) Bethany Arndt (observer intermediate vocal and speech arts), Heather Kramar (senior speech arts), Espoir Segbeaya (intermediate speech arts).