This festival is the one organized for the New England Region. The festival is open to the most outstanding woodwind, brass, and percussion players from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.  It began in 2002 as a middle school festival for students in grades 7, 8, and 9; and continued that way for the 2004 and 2006 festivals.  Because of the overwhelming response, the festival was opened up to students in grading 7 through 12 starting in 2009 and has been serving both junior high and high school students ever since. Currently, two honors bands are created from the many applications received or submitted from all over New England.