The Festival

 Both Kelden and Zack participated in the Porcupine Music Festival. They each played one song on the piano and each of them got first place!

Granted, Kelden had no competition :) He was the only one playing a level 6 song. Most of the people his age are in a higher level than him (although it is hard to tell as the level 7 people were playing Fur Elise, which is in his level 6 book..) It doesn't matter, we are very proud! He can now play many hymns without practicing first. 

Zack, on the contrary, had a lot of competition. He was "against" 4 others in his group and then I think 5 other children played the same song in another group. I guess they divided it so it wouldn't be too long for parents to wait. Zack got the best mark of all of them. It's problably because it was a song that is under level 1 (Prep B) and so most of the players have just started piano while Zack has already 6 years of practice under his belt...

If Zack seems to be moving slowly in the different piano levels, it might be because he is more interesting in playing the following song rather than the songs from the books...

The song was so long that we had to make it double speed to be able to post it. He can't play it that fast yet, obviously, but it's still pretty good!