THE award-winning Cloudspotting Music and Arts Festival returns with a special Summer Solstice celebration this weekend.

A Break in the Clouds is a mini-festival tomorrow and Saturday which includes two nights camping wrapped around one jam-packed day of live music and interactive arts at the Gisburn Forest hub – with a few extra surprises thrown in for the campers on Friday night.

A live music programme with two alternating stages in the forest features The Lovely Eggs, Sweet Baboo, Mr Ben and the Bens and Jim Ghedi. Manchester’s global fusionists Kabantu and Ribble Valley band Northern Sports Club perform on the main stage.

The Enchanted Forest stage will play host to regional acoustic performers including Baxter Rhodes, Terry Logan and Chris Manley and there will be an open mic for attendees and late-night singing sessions around the fire.

Cloudspotting events welcome family audiences and the centrepiece to A Break in the Clouds will be an interactive family theatre ‘game’ called The Sorrowful Stag. This mass participation performance combines street theatre with an adventure game in the forest.

There will also be forest arts and craft sessions, walking and activity trails, music workshops, yoga and laughter yoga sessions, and storytelling session for younger visitors.

For tickets and details about camping, visit thegrandvenue.co.uk or ring 01200 421599. Gates open at 5pm tomorrow.