Our county's young music maestros will be carving up the stage this summer at the world's largest youth music festival.

Two hundred and eighty young musicians from Kent will be performing along with 10,000 other musicians at the National Festival of Music for Youth in Birmingham, in July.

The Kent College Choristers and the Sevenoaks School Gamelan Group will be among the selected groups to take part in the six-day festival. The event aims to highlight the outstanding creative talent of the youth of today.

The full list of Kent's groups:

The Gower Guitar Quartet from Ashford
The Holmewood House Chamber Choir from Tunbridge Wells
The Jazz Mice from Sevenoaks
The Kent College Choristers from Canterbury
The Medieval Minstrels from Ashford
The Norton’s Dixie Kings from Ashford
The Norton Knatchbull Wind Band from Ashford
The Percussion School from Ramsgate
The St Mary’s Recorder Ensemble from Whistable
The Sevenoaks School Gamelan Group
The Sutton Valence Prep School Choir from Ashford
The Marlborough School Band from Sidcup
The Nicolaou Junior Piano Trio from Orpington
The Nicolaou Six Hands from Orpington
The Whitstable Recorder Ensemble

* For ticket information call Symphony Hall Box Office on 0121 780 3333 or visit www.thsh.co.uk or 08444 999 999 or www.ticketweb.co.uk.

Factfile: What is Music for Youth?