SOME 2,000 music fans braved the elements over the weekend to enjoy the tenth Whiteford Music Festival near Stoke Climsland.

Friday night saw Internationally renowned singer Bobby Kemp and his big band treat the audience to a swing night of classics from the Sinatra era. 

Saturday evening was the sold-out prom concert, featuring the Radio Light Orchestra conducted by Barrie Mills and accompanied by the stunning voices of St Joseph's School Chamber Choir and baritone soloist Darren Jeffrey, along with the haunting sound of the bagpipes of the Kernow Pipes and Drums.

After the likes of Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory, the sky exploded in an amazing firework display to accompany the Battle of Trafalgar, with moving narration provided by Whiteford owner David Short.

Sunday provided a relaxed garden party atmosphere in a delightful family chill-out afternoon, with a barbecue, circus skills training and music by local bands Just Plain Myrtle and Red Herring and children from Stoke Climsland Primary School. Headliners Mad Dog Mcrea soon got the picnicking audience on their feet with their infectious folk music.

'It was a great end to a fantastic weekend,' said Kathryn Carnegie, one of the festival organisers from the Friends of Stoke Climsland Parish Church, the charity behind the event.

'The friends raise funds for the fabric of the church. The festival is run almost entirely by volunteers and, with the help of the entire community, they certainly succeeded in creating a truly unmissable event.'

The festival, which has raised on average £8,000 a year since it started, will return in June 2012 with a special event to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games.