Community, culture, connection – the Peterborough Folk Festival creates a safe space in the heart of the City where the concerns of everyday life fade. In their place, families and community members young and old find joy in spending time together, discovering new music, food, and friends on the banks of the Otonabee River. Below, you’ll find the funders, partners, and businesses that help to make it happen.

The Peterborough Folk Festival is an incorporated non-profit, primarily volunteer-run organization, and we rely entirely on donations and funding from a number of sources.

Interested in becoming a PFF sponsor? Please feel free to contact Candace at ptbofolkfest@gmail.com or (705) 874-6796 to discuss how you can get involved. Your participation is essential in continuing a twenty-year tradition of high-quality arts, music, food and community together in one festival.

Superheroes

Superhero funders contribute cash amounts of greater than $10,000 to the Peterborough Folk Festival.
The City of Peterborough have long been committed to supporting arts, culture, and heritage in this community, and to that end have been strong supporters of the Peterborough Folk Festival for many years.  In addition, many City departments – from Parks and Recreation to Waste Disposal – give great assistance to the festival throughout the year.

The Department of Canadian Heritage’s Arts Presentation Canada program promotes multicultural and inter-provincial cultural exchange.  Allowing smaller towns and venues to bring acts from out-of-province that otherwise would be out of reach, the DCH-APC program has been a PFF supporter for almost a decade.

The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation is a private Canadian foundation established in 1993. It was the late Lloyd Carr-Harris’ wish that his assets be used to fund areas of education, music and medical research.  To that end, the Foundation has supported the Peterborough Folk Festival since 2006, ensuring that the festival’s vision is able to flourish and support young, emerging artists from across the country.

Great Hearts

Great Heart sponsors contribute goods and services or cash amounts of $500 – $999 to the festival.

Generation Solar – Long-time supporters, helping to make the PFF one of the lowest-impact festivals in the country.  Generation Solar designs, supplies, installs, and services a broad range of renewable energy systems for residential and commercial applications, including solar electric and solar water heating technologies.

The Peterborough Examiner – The Examiner have been enthusiastic supporters of the festival for many years, including lots of great coverage of the weekend as well as assistance with advertising! Peterborough’s oldest newspaper.

The Publican House Brewery – Joining the PFF for the first time in 2009, the Publican House is a local micro-brewery crafting some of the finest and most interesting brews in Ontario.  We can’t think of anything finer than a great Canadian band and a great Canadian beer at the PFF!

Sadleir House – Hosting our Sunday workshops, Sadleir House is one of the most beautiful and well-preserved heritage buildings in the city.  Saved from certain doom by a group of committed students and alumni, it’s available for rentals and is one of the most pleasant venues in the area.

The Canadian Canoe Museum – The hosts for our opening concert, the CCM is a beautiful venue that gives our audiences a chance to get in touch with a little Canadian history whilst enjoying a great night out.  A world-class museum displaying over 120 historic canoes and related artifacts, the CCM celebrates the living tradition of paddlesports in Canada and around the world.

Strong Limbs

Strong Limb sponsors contribute goods and services or cash amounts of $250 – $499 to the festival.

Clayton Benson
Candace Shaw Digital Video
Go Logo Designs
Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Deep Roots

Deep Roots sponsors contribute goods and services or cash amounts of $249 or less to the festival.

The Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Association
The Link
Minute Maid
Lansdowne Price Chopper
Canteen of the Kawarthas
Canadian Tire
Stickling’s Bakery
R J’s Fresh Produce
The Main Ingredient
D’Arcy and Deiter’s No Frills
Liftlock IGA
Loblaws
Ken’s No Frills
Bill Kelcey
Charlotte Pantry
Seven Eleven
Franz’s Butcher Shop
Don Dorsett Refridgeration
Sound Pro
Greenup Peterborough
Wayne Elliott of WEBmadman.net
Rocky Ridge
Peterborough Public Works Department
Peterborough Recreation Department
City of Peterborough Recycling
Johnnie on the Spot
Shopper’s Drug Mart
Renegade Apparel
Rowan Tree Preschool
Paddling Puppeteers
John Etches
Green Sprouts Children’s Daycare
Fabricland