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Mac-Stock is returning to Warsop in March – but has “shifted focus slightly in its fifth year in terms of its charitable aims”.

Graham Parker, formerly of Mansfield, who launched the festival in 2016, said: “For the first three years we raised funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, then last year we split the money between Macmillan and St Luke’s Hospice in Lichfield after it took care of one of our friends over his last days.

“This year we are supporting the Samaritans and a homeless charity that will be selected by the folks attending the festival.

“We asked people to suggest homeless charities that we could donate to and the top three were put forward for people to vote on.

“Mansfield Soup Kitchen and Sutton Christian Fellowship are two local charities that people can vote for on the day, so long as they are attending the festival.”

The festival takes place at The Black Market, High Street, Warsop, on March 28, featuring “a stellar line-up of indie, punk, folk, hip hop and reggae acts”.

And Mr Parker is hoping to add to the £10,000 it has raised for charity over the past four years.

Solar Love Society are playing Mac-Stock 5 in Warsop in March.

He said: “We can only do that by putting on a great day of music.

“Fortunately for us, most of our acts play for expenses only as they understand what we are about.

“Obviously we have to strike deals with internationally known acts like Zion Train and big festival names like The Sound of the Sirens, Nick Parker and Samantics, but it is the people who buy the tickets that really make things happen.

Mac-Stock 5’s full line up is: Zion Train; The Sound of Sirens; Samantics; Nick Parker & Ben Wain; The Social Ignition; Solar Love Society; Muddy Summers & Dirty Field Whores; Scott Doonican; Northern Monkey; The Hurriers; Brad Dear and The March; T-Bitch; Hattie Hatstar; Pretty Babs; and Ghosts of Men.

Doors open at noon and music finishes at 11.45pm.

Tickets, priced £30, £10 and £5, with free admission for under-10s, are available from the Black Market or ticketsource.co.uk/parkerpr/t-xxyzad

Warsop music festival returns for fifth year