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A chef from Saturday Kitchen will be among the stars cooking up food at a festival in Canterbury this summer.
Luxury country hotel The Pig, in Bridge, will be hosting a celebration of both music and food in August.
Rock band Supergrass are pencilled in as the headline act for the event, which will see festival-goers stay overnight in glamping tents.
And now, bosses have announced Angela Hartnett will be serving up dishes on the day.
The Gordon Ramsay protégée, who has presented BBC show Saturday Kitchen, was born in Canterbury.
She has gone on to carve a highly successful culinary career, running Italian restaurant Murano in London and appearing on a number of cooking shows.
The familiar face will be joined by fellow renowned chefs Nieves Barragan and Lisa Goodwin-Allen.
Titled the Smoked & Uncut festival, the large-scale event is set to host 3,000 people.
A licensing bid to secure permission for a range of activities has been submitted to Canterbury City Council, with event bosses wanting 15 separate food stalls.
There will also be a pop-up restaurant serving a variety of cuisines, 12 small capacity bars providing alcoholic drinks and 11 other bars selling solely non-alcoholic drinks.
Organisers are also planning to have 40 glamping tents pitched up for guests to stay overnight ahead of, and after, the music on Saturday, August 13.
Prices for a two-person glamping stay are fixed at £995, but the tickets are already sold out.
General admission tickets are however available, with the adult price for Saturday costing £53 and a child entrance fee costing £27.50.
Angela Hartnett will be serving up a 'four-course feasting menu' inside the hotel's restaurant at a price of £98 per person.
The main entertainment - headlined by Supergrass - is set to last until 11pm.
Ska group The Selecter, and Cardiff-based rock band Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard will also both perform.
Event bosses say "mouth-watering dishes" will range from classic burgers and stone-baked pizza to vegan bites and barbecues.
Cocktails, gin and tonic, a Shepherd Neame beer bar and a Hambledon's double-decker bus will be among the drink offerings.
A smaller-scale version of the festival was hosted last summer, with Jools Holland as the main star.
Home Grown Hotels Ltd, the firm which runs The Pig brand, organises a number of Smoked & Uncut festivals across the country.
While Lulu, Earth Wind and Fire, and Jools Holland are booked for the country's other festivals, the Bridge event is to be headlined by Supergrass.
The band, whose hits include Alright, Moving and Pumping on Your Stereo, is fronted by singer Gaz Coombes.