THE running order and times are in place for the Pocklington Arts Centre 10th Anniversary Music Festival on August 8, and a “very special guest” could yet be added to the day-long event.

Edwina Hayes will kick off the line-up at 1pm, followed by David Ford at 1.35pm; Her Name Is Calla, 2.20pm; and Ellen & The Escapades, 3.35pm.

After an interval, the festival will resume with Sandi Thom at 5.25pm; Harper Simon, 6.30pm; Seth Lakeman, 7.50pm; and The Blockheads, 9.20pm.

“We’re replacing The Treetop Flyers with Ellen & The Escapades, a Leeds-based band who won a nationwide competition to perform at Glastonbury and recently signed to Coda Music,” says assistant manager James Duffy. “Fingers crossed but they look like being of the year’s up-and-coming bands.”

Ian Dury’s old band of lovably cocky, schoolboy-rude and artful characters, The Blockheads, will feature Dury’s musical right-hand man, Chaz Jankel, Mick Gallagher, John Turnbull, Norman Watt-Roy, Dylan Howe, saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and Derek The Draw, the mysterious front-man since 2002.

Ever-energetic folk singer, songwriter and fiddler Seth Lakeman has just released Hearts & Minds, an album that encompasses traditional and modern themes of love, loss and human struggle and represents a further leap forward in both his writing and sonic structures.

Singer-songwriter and producer Harper Simon is the son of the legendary Paul Simon. Inspired by the psychedelic country and rock music of the late 1960s and ’70s, he released his self-titled début album earlier this year. Recorded and produced in Nashville, Los Angeles and New York, it features a who’s who of musical heavyweights, not least his father.

Sandi Thom has made regular appearances at Pocklington Arts Centre and now returns to promote her third album, Merchants And Thieves. The first to be released on her own label, it marks a musical departure too, as Sandi turns to the rebellious, melancholic blues in the company of guitarist Joe Bonamassa.

Ellen & The Escapades are at the forefront of the alt-folk wave, citing Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Ryan Adams as influences on their debut single Without You and their imminent first EP, Of All The Times. Already this summer they have performed at Glastonbury and Beverley Folk Festival; the Moor Music Festival awaits them on August 13 at Heslaker Farm, Skipton.

Post-rock collective Her Name Is Calla will be introducing songs from their first full-length album, The Quiet Lamb – scheduled for release on Denovali Records in late summer – in their acoustic afternoon set.

Eastbourne’s waspish songwriter David Ford has a new album in tow, the self-released Let The Hard Times. Should you need a recommendation to discover why he should be far better known, consider this: an American hotel chain owner caught a gig in London earlier this year without knowing who Ford was and was so blown away that he gave him free hotel rooms every night on his latest US tour.

Nanci Griffith, no less, reckons Driffield singer-songwriter Edwina Hayes has “the sweetest voice in England”. That voice can heard on the soundtrack of the Cameron Diaz movie My Sister’s Keeper, and Edwina has supported the likes of Van Morrison, Jools Holland, Loudon Wainwright III and Griffith herself.

Over the past decade, Pocklington Arts Centre has staged more than 750 live performances by artists from every corner of the globe.

“It is with this mind that we’ve decided to hold this celebratory event,” says James.

“With the unofficial title of Past, Present And Future, the festival aims to highlight our achievements over the past ten years while showcasing some of the UK’s finest emerging talent too.”

The main stage will be complemented by an acoustic stage for local and regional performers, along with craft stalls. Food and drink will be served throughout the day.

• Tickets are still available at £38 on 01759 301547 or pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk