YORK’S Little Festival of Live Music is flying the flag once more for the York music scene in the Yorkshire Gig Guide Awards.

After winning the 2016 title of York’s Outstanding New Festival of the Year and narrowly missing out on the regional title too, the festival and its director, Ellen Cole, are in the running again in the 2017 awards.

"I was shocked that our family-friendly music festival and myself have been nominated in four categories: Yorkshire’s Outstanding New Festival of the Year, Yorkshire’s Outstanding Promoter of the Year, Yorkshire’s Outstanding Individual and the People’s Choice Award," says Ellen.

"We were so close to claiming the regional Outstanding Festival title last year, so this year we’re striving to be number one in this category. Our aim as a festival is to generate a wide range of live music events that's family friendly, accessible for all and, more importantly, provides our audiences with a great musical experience.

"When the festival was 'accidentally' created in 2013, I never expected four years later that it would still be running. I'm so happy with what we've achieved and that we're helping to encourage more audiences to go out and watch live music locally. We would be over the moon if anyone would consider voting for us; voting is free and an award win would mean that the work we do will be recognised on a regional level.”

Earlier this year, the festival put on a one-off Girl Power Mini-Fest that attracted audiences from across Yorkshire and beyond. The annual main event will take place alongside the York Food and Drink Festival on Parliament Street from September 22 to 30 and has attracted 511 applications from acts across the country.

"The festival team are in the process of whittling the acts down to 28," says Ellen. "I'm overwhelmed with the sheer quantity of talent that applies for our festival year after year. This year, we have some really amazing line-up surprises; I won’t go into details just yet, but the line-up is expected to be announced next week.”

To vote for York’s Little Festival of Live Music and Ellen Cole in the Yorkshire Gig Guide Awards, visit yorkshiregigguide.co.uk/grass-roots-awards-2015.html. The deadline is August 31.

For more information on the September event, go to facebook.com/YorksLittleFestivalOfLiveMusic; follow on Twitter @live_music_fest or email yorkslivemusicfestival@gmail.com.