Panama City Beach Music Festival

01/09/2024

Spots for the 2024 festival are filling up fast. The new website is getting a ton of traffic. Sign up today!
www.panamacitybeachmusicfestival.com

12/05/2023

Our new website is up and running!
www.panamacitybeachmusicfestival.com
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10/23/2023

Here is the letter and information sheet for the 2024 festival.
Contact me for information about Day Trips.

The Panama City Beach Music Festival is the longest running scholastic music festival in the country! Started in 1980 by Buddy Wilkes the festival continues to offer students first class opportunities to perform and travel. Our festival is affordable, educational, and FUN! We are the music festival....

10/23/2023

Here is the registration form for this Spring, 2024! It will also be posted to the website very soon. Please fill out the form for each group you will be bringing. The number of Non-Performers will only be counted from the first registration.

Please fill out this form for each of your groups so we can register you for the Best Scholastic Music Festival WITH A BEACH!!!

10/19/2023

Chip Wise here. We are updating our website. I will let everyone know as soon as it is up. The old site is still up for general info.
For more details about packages and schedule for this year
contact me at: [email protected]

10/19/2023

Festival Dates are set! April 26-27 and May 10-11.
Registration form will be posted soon.
The festival performances will be at the beautiful Majestic Ballroom!

09/01/2022

IMPORTANT NEWS
The Panama City Beach Music Festival began forty (40) years ago on the stage of Miracle Strip Amusement Park, under the name of The Festival of Champions. Buddy and Nancy Wilkes, partnered with Steve Simpson, and the trio ran successful festivals at Panama City Beach, Ft Lauderdale, Tampa, and Orlando.

When Steve Simpson took a full-time position with the University of Alabama in 2012, Wilkes, who is a member of the Bay County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and the Tourist Development Council Board of Directors, changed the name from Festival of Champions to the Panama City Beach Music Festival.

The high school and middle school band and choral festival had been held annually at Panama City Beach since 1980, until the Covid-19 Pandemic interrupted that consecutive run in 2020 and 2021. The Panama City Beach Music Festival returned this past spring, bringing hundreds of young band and choral students back to the beach.

After a successful and rewarding run of forty (40) years, Buddy and Nancy Wilkes have signed a tentative agreement to turn over ownership of the company to Chip Wise of Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Wise is the band director at Leeds High School in Leeds, Alabama, where he plans to continue to serve in that capacity for many years, while also operating the Panama City Beach Music Festival.

The transition of ownership will occur over a period of time, but Wise officially takes the helm effective September 1, 2022.

05/09/2022

Schools will be arriving Thursday night and Friday morning for the last Festival of 2022.

05/06/2022

The first weekend of The Panama City Beach Music Festival went well, and the second and final weekend is coming up May 13-14.

02/17/2022

We have 1 performance opportunity for the April 29-30 weekend and 1 performance opportunity for the May 13-14 weekend.We're a great day trip festival, or a two night weekend stay. We'd love to have you!

02/01/2022

So many programs suffered losses of members as a result of the last two years of the pandemic, and we at the Panama City Beach Music Festival want to help. We're going to try our best to give your kids a fantastic weekend to remember at our festival. When your kids get back to school and tell about their weekend at the beach, we want all of their friends wishing they were in the band or chorus.

01/27/2022

The luau dancers are warming up and getting ready for the Saturday night show and awards, only 3 months away on the World's Most Beautiful Beach.

01/20/2022

Four performance slots available for the April 29-30 Panama City Beach Music Festival. Two performance slots available for the May 13-14 festival weekend. Great food, great fun, great beach, great weekend.

01/20/2022

Great meeting today. Panama City Beach is welcoming the Panama City Beach Music Festival back with open arms. Everyone involved is eager to see the band and choral students returning. Great food, great fun, great beach, and tremendously talented band and choral groups competing.

01/03/2022

11/29/2021

5 performance slots available for April 29 & 5 more for May 13. Register soon.

11/23/2021

100% REFUND available with any deposit within 10 days prior to our festival, and we guarantee a fun trip!

11/12/2021

Good food, great fun, a super package, at a very good price. (Festival meals, and activities for two days and two nights all for only $175.00 per student)
And it is 100% refundable up until the day before the festival.

09/15/2021

Call us or email us if you're considering either of our two dates for the PCB Music Festival next spring. We have initially heard from more groups then we have performance slots for. [email protected] (850) 258-4286

09/15/2021

The first weekend of our Panama City Beach Music Festival has been moved from May 6-7 to April 29-30. The May 6-7 weekend is Thunder Beach weekend, and the lodging rates will be much more reasonable April 29-30.