MUSIC acts All Saints, McFly, Basement Jaxx and The Magic Numbers are among the big-name acts due to play at CarFest 2021.

The family festival, created and hosted by Chris Evans, couldn't be held this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but is planning to come back with a bang in 2021 for what will be the event's 10th year.

A specially designed Covid-compliant ‘Camp’ CarFest is in the making, with Camp CarFest North taking place at the Bolesworth Estate near Chester from July 23-25.

And it has now been confirmed which music acts will be performing.

On Friday, July 23, the line-up will be:

  • Reef featuring Andy Taylor
  • Basement Jaxx
  • The Charlatans
  • Banners
  • ELO Again

On Saturday, June 24, due to perform are:

  • Faithless Sound System
  • McFly
  • Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott
  • The James Martin Band
  • All Saints
  • Tom Grennan
  • The Magic Numbers

And on Sunday, July 25, performing will be:

  • The CarFest Supergroup with: The Feeling, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Freya Ridings, Beverley Knight and Roger Daltrey
  • Marc Almond
  • Embrace
  • Texas
  • Bjorn Again
  • James Carpenter

In addition, performing on the Club CarFest stage will be:

  • Judge Jules
  • Jumpin Jimmy Flash
  • Kate Lawler
  • Dick vs Dom – DJ Battle
  • Gok Wan
  • Richard Jones & Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Meanwhile, on The Kitchen Stage will be celebrity chefs:

  • Angellica Bell
  • Galton Blackiston
  • Candice Brown
  • Atul Kochhar
  • Ching He Huang
  • Melissa Hemsley
  • Dale Pinnock
  • José Pizarro
  • Bryony Williams
  • Ryan & Liam Simpson-Trotman
  • The Bosh Boys - Henry Firth & Ian Theasby
  • Matt Tebbutt
  • Juliet Sear

The hard-working CarFest events team has designed the festival to be fully Covid-compliant, so friends and family can enjoy all the usual treats from their favourite summer festival with special measures in place to ensure everybody’s safety.

Capacities will be reduced and the amount of space increased to ensure social distancing can take place, as well as artists appearing on big screens with viewing pods in front of the stages for ultimate headline act dancing to still happen.

Also featuring at the festival will, of course, be a motorsport paddock filled to the brim with a great range of cars plus four daily track races, with safe viewing areas trackside.

Camp sites will become holiday villages with entertainment and even more attractions

CarFest was created by Evans in 2012 with the sole purpose of raising funds for UK children’s charities and over the past nine years has successfully raised over £16 million for BBC Children in Need.

In 2021 Camp CarFest aims to raise a further £2 million for its charity partners - BBC Children In Need, Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, Rainbow Trust, Starlight Children’s Foundation and Teenage Cancer Trust.

  • Tickets, which are now on sale priced from £74, are only available online at www.carfest.org.