SOMERSET Court Summerfest takes place on Sunday, July 5 from 12noon to 8pm.

Entry is free, with the gates opening at 11am, although there will be collecting tins for donations towards essential resources and work on the grounds.

The event is being run as a music festival at Somerset Court, in Brent Knoll, which has been supporting people with autism for 41 years now and at its inception was the first place of its kind in the world, providing residential and day care in one place and a home for life as far as possible.

Summerfest will offer eight hours of live music from local bands and performers.

There will be a main stage on the main lawn and an acoustic stage in a slighlty smaller area.

There will be 30 minute breaks between main stage bands and the acoustic bands will play in those breaks so people can move from one to the other and do some shopping from the stalls.

There will be about 40 stalls selling all sorts of quality arts and crafts, a beer tent, a silent disco, a 75ft inflatable assault course, bouncy castles, a roundabout, sand art activity, face painting, children's games and Peppa Pig, while there will be plenty of space for picnics.

There will be circus skills workshops provided by Haylee-Mai Edwards and Charlie Burns, who will also be performing as The Firecats.

There will also be an indoor art exhibition showing the work of several local artists including Margaret Micklewright, Cora Stock and Sue Hammond- Lovett.

 

 

 

Bands and performers for the day are.

MAIN STAGE: Six Machine, The Talk Show Hosts, Chiller, The Tim Crahart Blues Band, Kyle Coleman, Gracie Wickens-Sweet, from Brent Knoll who was fifth in the semi-final of Britains Got Talent, and Odds to End.

ACOUSTIC TENT: Bad Kato, Ghost Trail, Emily Elswood, Tamsin Winchester and Daft Folk.