Peel Music Festival was started in 1927 by W.E. Capps, a Brampton schoolteacher who wanted to create a competitive venue for school choirs. Today, over 80 years later, PMF has grown into being one of Canada's largest music festivals. Faithful to its origin, PMF continues to have a section for school choirs and ensembles. But it has also become much more, even pushing out of the boundaries of music and into related art forms. Besides offering competitive adjudication of the highest professional standard to young performers playing a wide variety of instruments – brass, woodwinds, strings, classical guitar, and piano – PMF also includes classes for ensembles, and for performers in related art forms such as vocal, musical theatre and speech arts. Peel Music Festival is a not-for-profit organization, run by a group of dedicated, volunteer music teachers. If you want to know more about the Festival, click on the links below.

"The object is not to gain a prize or defeat a rival, but to pace one another on the road to excellence."

Sir H. Walton Davies

Welcome to the 83^rd Annual Peel Music Festival!

Dates for the 2010 Festival: March 22 to May 1

Festival information available through the buttons below:

Please see News to read about our 2009/2010 Trillium Foundation grant

The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the Government of Ontario

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