task of not only providing constructive feedback, but awarding every ensemble with either a gold, silver or bronze rating based purely on whether they feel a performance has been especially refined, moving, inspirational or otherwise significant. There is no ranking or placing within those categories, and each section will have a completely different combination of gold, silver and bronze awards, depending on the adjudicators' impressions. The important thing to stress is that every performance is a success for all of the reasons that one involves music in one's educational philosophy - the merits of teamwork, overcoming challenge, improving confidence, increasing brain activity and learning how to express a thousand different emotions through the language of music. Venues The QCMF currently run seven venues for the festival. The performance venues at Villanova College are the Augustine Centre, Goold Hall, Veritas Building, Tolle Lege (Senior Library), the Quadrangle Stage, and the Junior School Terraces. At St James Catholic Parish, the church and hall are used as performance venues. Festival Sponsors The QCMF rely on sponsors to make the festival success by supporting over 10,000 student performers and their parents, conductors and teachers from Catholic Schools across Queensland. The current sponsors of the festival are the following. Silver Sponsors - Queensland Catholic Education Commission Bronze Sponsors - Brisbane Catholic Education; John Pearcy Audiology Pty Ltd; Ellaways Music; Supporters - Horizons Education Tours; The Federation of P & F Associations of Catholic Schools Qld.; Brass Music Specialists; Mater Foundation; Queensland Conservatorium; Commonwealth Bank; The History of the QCMF Acronym The festival first carried the name of The Catholic Colleges' Music Festival (CCMF), as early participants came mostly from established Brisbane Independent Colleges, which had a tradition of music established by their founding religious orders. Within a few years, the growth of the festival and consequently increasing costs, lead to a search for sponsorship. This resulted in the Festival reaching a wider audience and being renamed the Queensland Catholic Colleges' Music Festival (QCCMF) as schools from outside the metropolitan area were coming in numbers to take part in the weekend of music. A few years ago the festival the name changed to include the word 'Schools,' to better reflect the name of all participants, thus creating the Queensland Catholic Schools' & Colleges' Music Festival (which would be QCSCMF). Whilst this title now accurately reflects the heavy involvement in the festival of Catholic primary and secondary