Organisers of a festival offering music from jazz, classical, hip hop, soul and rock 'n' roll sounds say they are excited for the "huge wealth of talent" coming to their festival weekend.
Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music will be holding its festival weekend between Friday, August 30 until Sunday, September 1 in Elmhurst Park in east Suffolk.
The festival organisers, Ben Osborne and Alice Stallard, have been running various events this warm-up to the main festival.
The events include a DJ and live music event that ran alongside Woodbridge Regatta earluer this year and a pre-party at one of England's oldest pubs which will take place in August 17.
The festival say they will be focusing on highlighting "less-well publicised" creatives and inspiring the community.
Festival founder, DJ Ben Osborne, said: “We chose the name Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music because we hope to inspire and showcase music and a wide variety of the arts in our community.
"Our wider programming has always been diverse, including painting, light art and projections, literature/spoken word, sculpture, photography, printing, as well as music of all genres; from jazz, classical and hip hop, to soul, rock 'n' roll, reggae, house, disco and electro.
"So this year we’re highlighting the cross-platform art part of our festival, by showcasing acts that are famous in one area of art, but have less-well publicised creative off-shoots in other disciplines.”
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Festival chair and art co-ordinator artist Alice Stallard added: “Over the last four years the art side of the festival has grown immensely, involving more professional artists, both working amongst the community and submitting work for us to show.
"But what has been equally inspiring has been the huge growth in community involvement, with well over a thousand people contributing art to last year’s community programmes. So we thought this would be a good time to showcase some of the art skills that our musicians also have.
"And, once we hit on that idea, a wealth of artists with hidden talents started to emerge from every artistic discipline we work with. It’s hugely exciting.”
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