THE annual Tadcaster RockOwt all-day music festival will be held at the Tadcaster Social Club on Saturday.

Organised by Mark Allison and Cliff Edwards, it runs from midday to midnight with a line-up of 14 Yorkshire acts performing a variety of music.

Taking part will be Wilson Brown, a Tadcaster Fifties’ covers band with members both young and old; Jonny Gill, an acoustic musician from York who fronts Pray For Hayden and plays entirely original material; Reece Jacob, a member of Leeds bands Flocks and Hunting Bears, who will perform original songs and covers on acoustic guitar specially for the RockOwt.

Present too will be York acoustic guitarist Sean Dunning; Tadcaster barbershop choir Spirit Of Harmony, in a four-piece barbershop quartet session; young Garforth indie rock band Variation 4; covers band Last Man Standing; and Tadcaster’s The Elmcats, completing the first half with Fifties and Sixties’ numbers.

Copmanthorpe rock band Sonic Tractor, who re-formed this year after a year-long hiatus, open the second stretch of performances, followed by York covers band Inside The Lion and Tadcaster alternative rock band Shupadum, who boast a cowbell player.

Tadcaster’s biggest metal band, Outbreak UK, and Tadcaster covers combo Radio Mojo will be in action before the electro-powered party punk of Northallerton’s Rosie ends the night with a bang.

“We also have food stalls, an outside bar serving six real ales, kids’ entertainment and other stalls and entertainment,” says co-organiser Mark Allison. “It will be a cracking day, just like last year.”

Admission is free.