ACOMB centre was filled with music, dance and art as the fifth annual ADAM festival celebrated local talent.

Schoolchildren started the entertainment with Carr Junior, Poppleton Road and Westfield Primary Schools singing and dancing for shoppers on Front Street on Friday.

Yesterday ADAM, or the Acomb Dance Art Music festival spread all over Acomb from its centres in Acomb Explore Library and Acomb Parish Church Hall with families following a Foxy Trail to find landmark buildings around the area.

In the churchyard of St Stephen's Church on the district's highest point, sketch artist Allan Adams met would-be artists for a masterclass on how to draw buildings and other objects in pencil or pen and ink.

At the library Lord Mayor Keith Orrell and Lady Mayoress Judith Orrell were among festival goers trying their hand at the junk percussion outside and inside the venue was busy all day with a long programme of performers and face and rock painting.

York Youth Concert Band and Big Band started the second day of music in the pedestrianised area of Front Street, which also had stands and an exhibition by New Visuality Art Group with their Acomb Time Traveller.

Dancers took it in turns in the parish hall to entertain the festivalgoers.