AFTER last summer's award-winning debut, the York Proms picnic concert returns for an ambitious second year with more than 100 performers and a triply larger main stage in the Museum Gardens on Saturday.

A rousing evening of patriotic and nostalgic music from the world of classical, opera, musicals and films will be rounded off with a fireworks finale as organiser Rebecca Fewtrell – classical chart-topping York soprano Rebecca Newman – looks to match the first year's sell-out success when £10,000 was raised for charity. "I'm hoping for an attendance of around 1,400," she says.

This weekend's Proms concert has a bigger stage, a second choir stage to seat a 90-strong choir, more fireworks, more caterers and more performers, with most of them being from Yorkshire. The raised terrace in front of the Yorkshire Museum provides a natural stage, with the fireworks being launched behind the Abbey Ruins.

Guest soloists will be Rebecca Newman, London-based international operatic tenor Vasili Karpiak in his York debut and an expanded Austonley Brass, a Huddersfield group who performed last year. Ewa Salecka's Prima Vocal Ensemble, from York, will be on choir duty, singing their own set, supporting the soloists and helping to lead the Proms' finale songs.

Dewsbury baritone David Fade, often to be spotted busking in York city centre, swaps the street for the stage for an interval solo spot.

Ticket are on sale at yorkproms.com, on 08453 881 881 or in person at the Visit York Visitor Information Centre in Museum Street. Please note, no tickets will be sold on the gates; the online box office closes 48 hours before Saturday's event but tickets can bought from Visit York until midday on Saturday or until they sell out, if sooner.

The gates will open at 5pm, or 4.30pm for fast track and disabled ticket holders, with the main evening show starting at 7.30pm. Ticket collection will be from the Museum Street entrance to the gardens.