American Federation Pueri Cantores

Arizonans, please feel welcome to join us Monday, August 26th to talk more about Pueri Cantores and the 2025 Phoenix Festival! Please RSVP to [email protected].

Announcing our 2025 Festival Schedule & National Repertoires! We are thrilled to be offering 18 regional Pueri Cantores Festivals across the country next year. We hope you will consider having your children's and youth choirs join us in 2025!

Registration will open soon. Individual Festival brochures with detailed information including schedule of the day, repertoire, and registration details will be posted on the AFPC website at www.pcchoirs.org and announced via email soon.

Napa Institute Mass at Meritage Resort in Napa - 07.27.24

We are blessed to have such a dedicated leader in Paul French, President of the Board of Directors for the American Federation of Pueri Cantores. He is being honored this week as the 2024 Musician of the Year at the NPM National - National Association of Pastoral Musicians Convention in Kansas City. Congratulations, Paul!

Congratulations to NPM’s 2024 Musician of the year, Paul French!

We are thrilled to be bringing back a Pueri Cantores Festival to Michigan! The Festival will be held on March 15, 2025, at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Ann Arbor. We hope to have your choir with us! More details to follow.

St. Michael's Choir School, Toronto, Canada, and St. Francis of Assisi Choir, Ann Arbor, MI sing "O God Beyond all Praising" at the Fifth Sunday of Easter Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Parish. Both choirs are members of the International Federation of Pueri Cantores (USA and Canada).

American & Canadian Pueri Cantores Choirs join voices to sing "O God Beyond all Praising" St. Michael Cathedral Choir School, Toronto, Canada, and St. Francis of Assisi Choir, Ann Arbor, MI sing "O God Beyond all Praising" at the Fifth Sunday of E...

Did you meet our singers from our latest newsletter?

On April 20th, 340 singers from 18 different Catholic Schools and parish youth choirs from around MD, DC, VA, PA, VA, and NC gathered together at the majestic Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the final 2024 Pueri Cantores Festival.

This year, we organized a record number of 16 festivals across the country - from Orange County to Houston to Boston- which involved more than 2,400 young singers from 157 different schools and parishes. It has been an absolute thrill to hear from our Pueri Cantores singers and choir directors across the nation about their local Festivals and favorite moments.

We want to say THANK YOU to all our singers, choir directors, music teachers, host churches, volunteers, and families across the nation that participated in our 2024 Pueri Cantores Festival Season. We are grateful to be able to serve you and work together to bring these Festivals to your region.

-Paul French, AFPC President

Join us on Tuesday, May 14th at 4pm Eastern / 3pm Central / 1pm Pacific for the 3rd webinar in our 3-part AFPC-NCEA Webinar "We Sing" Series for Conductors of Catholic Student Choirs, Worship Leaders and Classroom Teachers, Elementary through High School. Click here to register: https://ncea.zoom.us/webinar/register/5017132909914/WN_QAUgtaNYSaKA8bGPQE8HpA #/registration

AFPC President Paul French has been named NPM National - National Association of Pastoral Musicians 2024 Pastoral Musician of the Year! Paul French sat down with NPM magazine editor Nancy Douglass for an interview, and he will be honored at the 2024 NPM Convention in Kansas City this summer. Read the entire interview here:https://www.pcchoirs.org/sites/default/files/Paul%20French%20Interview_Pastoral%20Music%20April%202024%20Edition.pdf

Choir Directors, consider bringing your choirs to the 2025 International Pueri Cantores Congress in MUNICH! Learn more about the Congress here:https://www.pcchoirs.org/sites/default/files/45th%20International%20Congress%20in%20Munich%202025.pdf

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The Diocese of Paterson's "The Beacon" highlights the 2024 New York Pueri Cantores Festival and a few of our NJ singers and choir directors.

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Chicago-area friends, the choristers of St. Paul's Choir School, Cambridge, MA, are heading to Chicago next week for their spring tour. You'll have several opportunities to hear one of the nation's finest youth choirs in performance! Check out their full schedule here: https://www.saintpaulschoirschool.us/post/choir-school-chicago-bound?fbclid=IwAR2eV7OshLhDJO_w2CZECB8q8FFSYOPV0ioj8YWw2TQIt35KDv3v_UMwd_s_aem_AWGd4k8ZMdwAqKy1_cJGc17KFaGcRrXsBppfd8LzCXRlGCpcqjm_r9tkuQpdmggBjXJBO42_ZncXQHlxxvv94XfG

The boys are headed to Chicago next week for their spring tour! 25 choristers and 5 music scholars will sing in FIVE events in Chicago and Evanston. All events are free and open to the public.

If you're in the Chicago area, please come by and say hello and hear our boys raise their wonderful voices in worship and song!

To learn more about the tour, visit https://www.saintpaulschoirschool.us/post/choir-school-chicago-bound

Photos from the 2024 Fort Wayne-South Bend Festival at Saint Pius X Granger where over 200 young singers from around the diocese joined in voice and song for the Solemnity of Saint Joseph with Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades as celebrant.

"Todorovich said the benefits of participating in Pueri Cantores goes beyond the excitement and experience the student singers have. "I know that our diocesan festival is bearing good fruit because many pieces from Pueri Cantores have become staples of parish repertoire around the diocese,” Todorovich said. “I have also seen the general quality of parish music programs much improved since we began offering these festivals back in 2011.”

Pueri Cantores Youth Choir Sings for Solemnity of St. Joseph - Today's Catholic With their performance at Mass about to begin, members of the Pueri Cantores youth choir were finishing up their final rehearsal when conductor Jeremy Hoy took the time to calm […]

Join us Thursday, April 11 at 4pm Eastern / 3pm Central / 1pm Pacific for the 2nd webinar in our 3-part AFPC-NCEA Webinar "We Sing" Series for Conductors of Catholic Student Choirs, Worship Leaders and Classroom Teachers, Elementary through High School. Click here to register: https://ncea.zoom.us/webinar/register/7817109501809/WN_2Hd_YBmNSTiXeda8sM0BCw #/registration

Wishing you and your loved ones a very blessed Easter! May your cup overflow with God’s goodness, peace, and joy this Easter as we are reminded of all Jesus has done for us.

Photos from the 3/9/24 New England Festival & Mass at Cathedral of the Holy Cross with Bishop Reed as the celebrant.

Tune in tomorrow for the 2024 Fort Wayne-South Bend Catholic Youth Choral Festival & Mass where over 200 young singers from around the diocese will join in voice and song for the Solemnity of Saint Joseph.

Livestream links:
St. Pius X Church website: https://stpius.net/livestream
St. Pius X Church YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/

Photos from our 2024 Houston Festival on March 2nd at Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Parish, Houston with His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo celebrating the Festival Mass.