2025 Top 100 Festivals and Events in Ontario Announced
2025 TOP 100 FESTIVALS & EVENTS IN ONTARIO ANNOUNCED
Provincial organization recognizes Ontario’s Best Festivals
Kitchener, Ontario (February 26, 2025) Festivals and Events Ontario (FEO) is proud to announce the 2025 Top 100 Festivals & Events in Ontario. These Top 100 recipients represent festivals and events that excel within the industry.
Submissions from FEO members were received for consideration in the fall of 2024 and were judged by an independent panel of judges. Festivals and events of all kinds from every corner of Ontario were represented in the submissions – from community festivals to internationally recognized events. The 2025 Top 100 Awards were given out on Wednesday, February 26th during FEO’s Annual Conference “SYNERGY” in Kitchener, Ontario.
FEO would like to congratulate the 2025 Top 100 Ontario Festivals & Events:
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RTO 1 - SOUTHWEST ONTARIO TOURISM REGION
Amherstburg Open Air Weekends
Amherstburg River Lights Winter Festival
Amherstburg TRUEfest
Amherstburg Uncommon Festival
Bright Lights Windsor
Chatham Retrofest
Eat and Drink Norfolk
Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show
Oxford Renaissance Festival
RTO 2 - NIAGARA FALLS AND WINE COUNTRY TOURISM REGION
Balls Falls Thanksgiving Festival
Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights
Niagara Grape and Wine Festival
Niagara Jazz Festival
Pelham Summer Chill Series
Port Colborne Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival
Welland Concerts on the Canal
RTO 3 - HAMILTON, HALTON AND BRANT TOURISM REGION
Burlington Sound of Music Festival
Brantford International Villages Cultural Festival
Dundas Cactus Festival
Hamilton Day
Hamilton Winterfest
Re-Enactment of the Battle of Stoney Creek
St. George AppleFest
Winona Peach Festival
RTO 4 - HURON, PERTH, WATERLOO AND WELLINGTON TOURISM REGION
Cambridge Winterfest
Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games
Goderich Salt and Harvest Festival
Huron Multicultural Festival
Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest Bingemans Kool Haus
Riverfest Elora
Sunlife Waterloo Busker Carnival
The Mount Forest Fireworks Festival
RTO 5 - GREATER TORONTO AREA TOURISM REGION
Canadian International Airshow
Canadian National Exhibition (CNE)
Carassauga Festival of Cultures
Celebrate Toronto
Festival of South Asia
Mississauga Italfest
Muslimfest
PanAmerican Food and Music Festival
Pumpkinfest Toronto
SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival
Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival
TD Salsa in Toronto Festival
Toronto Waterfront Festival
RTO 6 - YORK, DURHAM AND HILLS OF HEADWATERS TOURISM REGION
Aurora’s Concerts in the Park
Aurora's Haunted Forest
Aurora’s Multicultural Festival
Caledon Day
Easter Fun Fest Markham-presented by Superior Events
Georgina Field to Table
Markham Canada Day
Markham Jazzlicious
Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival
Markham Museum Applefest
Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival
Oshawa Canada Day
Oshawa Convergence Music and Art Festival
Oshawa Indigenous Cultural Celebration
Oshawa Kars on King
Oshawa Peony Festival
Pickering Cultural Fusion
Whitby Brooklin Harvest Festival
RTO 7 - BRUCE PENINSULA, SOUTHERN GEORGIAN BAY AND LAKE SIMCOE TOURISM REGION
Barrie Canada Day on the Move
Barrie Downtown Countdown
Barrie Game On! After Dark
Barrie Winterfest
Carnival Barrie
Clearview Small Halls Festival
Collingwood Art Crawl
Collingwood Fashion Week
Collingwood Sidelaunch Days
Kempenfest
Kincardine Lighthouse Blues Festival
Lucknow’s Music in the Fields
Ontario's Best Butter Tart Festival Midland
Pumpkinferno Discovery Harbour
Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons – First Light Festival
Salsa at Blue Mountain
Trail Tunes – Collingwood, Clearview and Wasaga Beach
RTO 8 - KAWARTHA AND NORTHUMBERLAND TOURISM REGION
Brighton Applefest
Buckhorn Festival of the Arts
International Plowing Match
Port Hope Arts Festival
Port Hope Candlelight Festival
RTO 9 - SOUTHEASTERN ONTARIO TOURISM REGION
Quinte West Hops on the Water
Quinte West Pop Ups
Quinte West The Great Summer Carnival
RTO 10 - OTTAWA AND COUNTRYSIDE TOURISM REGION
Ottawa Children’s Festival
Ottawa Jazz Festival
RTO 11 - HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS TO THE OTTAWA VALLEY TOURISM REGION
Bancroft Rockhound Gemboree
Hike Haliburton Festival
Tweed & Company Theatre Season
RTO 12 - MUSKOKA, PARRY SOUND AND ALGONQUIN PARK TOURISM REGION
Festival of the Sound
RTO 13 - NORTHERN ONTARIO TOURISM REGION
Dryden Fall Fest
Fort William Historical Park - Anishinaabe Keeshigun
Sioux Lookout Blueberry Festival
Thunder Bay Live on the Waterfront
Thunder Bay Teddy Bear Picnic
Thunder Bay Quest Tech and Gaming
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The “SYNERGY" 2025 Festivals & Events Ontario Conference was held in Kitchener, Ontario from February 24-26, 2025.
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Media Contact:
Jay Nijhuis
Marketing & Communications Manager, FEO
www.festivalsandeventsontario.com
519-742-2226
About Festivals & Events Ontario Festivals & Events Ontario
(FEO) was established in 1987 as an association devoted to the growth and stability of the festival and event industry in Ontario. FEO supports a lively, engaged and dedicated festival and events industry by sharing knowledge, enabling networking and providing leadership on education, advocacy and promotion. FEO operates Canada’s largest dedicated festival and event Conference, publishes and distributes an annual consumer guide, promotes its industry festival supplier goods and services and oversees an industry-leading awards recognition program. The festivals and events industry in Ontario is estimated to generate in excess of $2.3 billion annually in contribution to regional GDP, create/sustain approximately 50,000 full-year-equivalent jobs and foster approximately $1 billion dollars in taxes at all levels of government