IF music be the food of love, The Porthleven Food and Music Festival should be your first port of call.

The festival has added more music to its line-up year on year and it can now boast three evenings of live entertainment.

Running from April 24 to 26 this year’s event not only has some big names, but also, for the first time a BBC Introducing stage.

The headliners at this year’s festival fundraiser on the Friday evening will be Appalachian hillbilly rockers Hayseed Dixie.

The Lumberjack Cowboy Heartbreak Trucking Company, add their “foot tappin’ thigh slappin' jiggery pokery” alt country disco to the stage, alongside Louis Eliot and the Embers', Rosie and the Goldbug, local heroes Flats and Sharps and Latin, reggae, gypsy-flamenco band Duncan Disorderly and the Scallywags.

The crowd-engaging and heart-wrenching female duo Sound of the Sirens also play on the Lime Kiln, while on the Salt Cellar Stage, Martin Furey (of top Irish folk band The High Kings and IDER (formerly “Lily and Meg”) will add their stunning voices.

With sets from Stone Roots, Echo Town, The People's String Foundation, Liam Jordan, Kim Lowings and many other |performers, it will be a memorable festival.

St Bartholomew church is the venue for a classical music programmes on both the Friday and Saturday evenings with a Friday performance by Classical Strings Quartet and on Saturday the Mounts Bay Singers, led by Sheila Farmer.

There will also be a full line-up of performers during the day including the renowned Penzance Youth String Orchestra, the spirited world-music choir Levow an Bys, the Wrong Side of the River Band and harpist Jade Hamzelou.

On the harbour stages the international flavour continues with music from Brittany’s Paetred Pagan, and the irresistible Latin rhythms of Samba Celtica, and DakaDoum, plus Cornish Roots big band.

The Cadgwith Singers and The Press Gang will bring it all home with songs from Cornwall and beyond, and look and listen out for James Dunden’s fairground organ, back by |popular demand.

The festival will be opened again by Porthleven’s own Town Band.

For Further information go to www.porthlevenfoodfestival.com