The article is devoted to the problem of the formation of the professional competence of the future specialist of cultural and leisure work in the informational and cognitive aspect based on the study of the national and artistic traditions of the Kazakh people as an important component of the educational process. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to broaden the horizons of students in the knowledge of the national artistic traditions of the Kazakh people as the basis of spiritual heritage and musical culture. As well as insufficient knowledge of traditions; effective familiarization of students with artistic values, cultural heritage. The approach proposed in the article to the formation of professional competence in the problem under study is based on the study of traditions associated with the birth of a child. It involves building the educational process based on the idea of a dialogue of cultures through the inclusion in the music lesson of presentations of Kazakh traditions and customs in parallel with the study of different genres of creativity and art of Kazakhstan. Thus, the proposed approach, to a greater extent than the traditional one, corresponds to the logic of goal-setting, which sees the possibility of qualitative mastery of the material only in the inseparable connection of the study of traditions and musical and artistic creativity. The effectiveness of the developed approach is justified from the point of view of the particular tasks of each discipline and from the point of view of solving the problem of forming the professional competence of the future specialist of cultural and leisure work.