An annual folk music and beer festival is set to kick off this summer at an idyllic north Norfolk venue.

The Blakeney Folk and Beer Festival will be returning to Blakeney Harbour Room this July for a weekend of live music, poetry workshops and evening concerts from some of the biggest names in the folk music scene.

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The event will take place between Friday, July 7, and Sunday, July, 9, and entry is free.

A wide selection of beers, wines, ales, and gins will be on offer in the lawned garden where the festival will take place.

Musical guests from previous years have included shanty and folk singers Peter Sanpher and Steve Evans, Maddy Leedham of The Leedham Sisters, The Browns, Tony Purdy, The Fried Pirates, The Old Wild Rovers and David Bull.