Norwegian band flying in for Cockshutt Music Festival
Hundreds of people are expected to attend a music festival in a Shropshire village which includes a band from Norway among its line-up this year.
The Cockshutt Music Festival, is on September 15 between 3pm and midnight. Organisers hope up to 500 people will go to the festival, which has outgrown the village hall where it has been held for the last three years.
It will now be held in a field close to the village hall, with 12 bands on the line-up.
As well as local acts such as Radio Riots and Three's A Crowd, organisers have booked folk band Grapevine Springs, whose members will be flying over from Oslo to perform at the event.
Other acts which will performing at the event later this month include Blues Boy Dan, Kill For Company and The Innocents, the only band to have played every year at the festival.
Tickets for the festival cost £16, with the money raised going towards supporting local community projects.
In the past three years, more than £7,000 raised by the event has been used in and for the hall.
This year, part of the money raised will go towards a donation to Bowel Cancer UK.
Organiser Jon Morris, organiser said he was hoping to see a bumper crowd at this year's event.
Mr Morris added: "This will be our fourth year, and we will be venturing outside for that real festival feel.
"We can't wait to provide a real evening of fantastic entertainment."
For further information about the event, visit www.cockshuttmusicfestival.co.uk or www.facebook.com/CockshuttMusicFestival
By Chris Burn
