MACC - Music Association of Canyon County

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MACC - Music Association of Canyon County Follow along for performances, music education and community events. Join Us! 🤗

A non-profit organization uniting the community through music. 🎼🎻🎶🎺
MACC is comprised of the Canyon County Symphony, Youth Symphony, Children's Chorus and MORE!

10/23/2026

SAVE THE DATE for:
🎶 ENDEAVOR | The Inaugural Concert of Canyon Winds 🎶

Every great journey begins with a first step. Ours begins with music! 🌄

Join us as Canyon Winds takes the stage for its inaugural concert, Endeavor — an evening celebrating new beginnings, artistic exploration, and the incredible power of music to bring our community together.

Featuring works by Barry, Camphouse, Doss, Karrick, Reed, Tchaikovsky, and Whitacre, this exciting program showcases the beauty, energy, and versatility of wind ensemble music.

Whether you're a lifelong music lover or experiencing a live concert band for the very first time, we'd love for you to be part of this milestone!
Saturday, November 14, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 NNU Little Theatre
512 Holly St, Nampa, ID 83686
🎟️ TICKETS (link in bio)
$10 General Admission • $5 Students & Seniors • $25 Family Admission
At the Music Association of Canyon County (MACC), we believe live music should be accessible to everyone. Bring your family, invite a friend, and help us celebrate the beginning of something wonderful!

✨ Every ensemble has a beginning. Come be part of ours. 🎺🎷

10/18/2026

That moment before the concert begins… 🎻🎺

A little tuning, a few last adjustments, and then the whole symphony comes together. ✨

We gave our Symphony members a few spooky prompts inspired by Night on Bald Mountain… and let their imaginations run wil...
10/16/2026

We gave our Symphony members a few spooky prompts inspired by Night on Bald Mountain… and let their imaginations run wild. 🌙⛰️ Swipe through to see what they came up with!
The Symphony is ready and excited to bring this haunting music to life tomorrow—and we can’t wait to see you there! 🎃 Costumes are encouraged, with prizes for the best ones.
📍 Jewett Auditorium
🕖 7 PM
🎟️ $10 general | $25 family | $5 students & seniors

10/14/2026

🤣
Those prices are cheap even...

But even less expensive is our concert this Saturday!
Bring the whole family for LESS than any tank of gas. 😉
🎻🎃🪊🖤
$5 Student/Seniors • $10 Adult • $25 Family
https://maccidaho.org/events/

10/13/2026

🎶 Hector Berlioz and his Symphonie fantastique - this is not just music. It’s a story of passion, obsession, and madness, told through the orchestra.

📅 Paris, 1830. A young Berlioz falls madly in love with the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. So deeply, he’s ready to do anything for her. But here’s the problem: she doesn’t even know he exists. So what does Berlioz do? He writes a symphony. But not a normal one - a symphony where the music itself becomes a novel, with its own plot, characters, and even “special effects.”

👉 Part Four: March to the Scaffold
The most cinematic scene: in his dream, he murders his beloved and is led to ex*****on. The orchestra becomes a grim marching band, the guillotine falls - and the music literally cuts off with a crash.

👉 Part Five: Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
The finale is pure phantasmagoria. The hero finds himself at a witches’ sabbath, where his beloved turns into a grotesque witch dancing among demons. The medieval funeral chant Dies Irae appears - but twisted, mocking, grotesque. It all spirals into a diabolical carnival.

🔥 Why does it matter?
Berlioz was a revolutionary. He shattered the idea of a symphony as “pure music.” He made it into drama, almost theater without words. In a way, this was the birth of the film soundtrack: music that tells the story all on its own.

🎥 You could say Symphonie fantastique was 19th-century Netflix. Episode by episode: love, despair, death, and the supernatural. And the intensity? It still hits like a shock today.

So if you think classical music is boring - just listen to the finale of Symphonie fantastique. Honestly, it’s scarier than most modern horror films.

Check out a live performance of Batman Suite... 🎃🤩 Halloween at the Symphony- Oct 17!
10/03/2026

Check out a live performance of Batman Suite... 🎃🤩
Halloween at the Symphony- Oct 17!

Last week, we asked if you had an instrument collecting dust. This week, someone brought us a clarinet. 🩵It’s a small ha...
09/30/2026

Last week, we asked if you had an instrument collecting dust. This week, someone brought us a clarinet. 🩵

It’s a small handoff with a big possibility: another musician may get the chance to make music with it.

Thank you to the donor for trusting MACC Cares with its next chapter. If you have a gently used band or orchestra instrument you’d like to give, learn more at maccidaho.org/macc-cares. 🎶

09/30/2026

Before the downbeat, there’s a room to set up, music to work through, and a whole lot of listening. 🎻

A little look inside Canyon County Symphony rehearsal as we prepare for Halloween at the Symphony. 🎃

Saturday, October 17 at 7 PM
Jewett Auditorium
Tickets: maccidaho.org/events

09/23/2026

Since the school year has settled into routine by now, many of our young musicians have the instruments they need to get started this year — which is wonderful news. 🥹 As MACC Cares continues to grow, we want to be ready for the next student who comes looking for their instrument.

If you have a gently used band or orchestra instrument sitting in a closet, collecting dust, consider giving it the chance to make music again.

Donated instruments can become part of MACC Cares and help make music more accessible to families in our community. 🎻🎺🎷

Have an instrument to donate? Scan the QR code or visit maccidaho.org/macc-cares to learn more.

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