THE fourth Celebrate Voice Festival returns to Salisbury on Friday with a packed programme of entertainment over 10-days.

Five-time Grammy award winners The Swingles (Celebrate A Capella), West End star Graham Bickley (Celebrate Musical Theatre), Jazz and Blues act Jacqui Dankworth & Charlie Wood (Celebrate Jazz), and Fado singer Gil Do Carmo (Celebrate World) all feature in the line-up.

Folk sensation Cosmo Sheldrake will join nature and folklore expert, Anna Richardson in Celebrate Voice’s first foray into the forest for Celebrate Folk: Nature. Following a day of guided foraging in the Wiltshire woodland, Cosmo will present a twilight concert around a traditional campfire.

Engelbert Humperdinck’s fairytale opera, Hansel and Gretel is the centrepiece festival production. The Medieval Hall will see a dramatic transformation into a woodland paradise for the Brothers Grimm fairy tale for five performances.

Celebrate Operetta adds to the festival’s offerings with a Blackadder/Monty Python-style comedy, mixed with song and spoken word in the Tales of Offenbach, presented by Opera Della Luna.

Festival director Lynsey Docherty performs alongside the acclaimed cast of singers, Paul Featherstone, Caroline Kennedy, Anthony Flaum and Charles Johnston. Accompanied by a chamber orchestra at Godolphin School’s Blackledge Theatre. And coinciding with half-term, the festival celebrates family with Tommy Foggo - Superhero, a multimedia tale of a life saved, Singing and Signing with the John McNeill Opportunity Centre in Celebrate Makaton.

Venues include the Medieval Hall, Cathedral Close, Salisbury Arts Centre and Godolphin School. For tickets go to celebratevoice.co.uk or call 01722 321744.