Looking for some suggestions about how to go about this.

This will be an Essex event located in the large attractive grounds of a museum late this summer.

The lady who's asked me to help organise this event at first suggested a food and drink festival, I suggested adding in folk as it pairs well with food and drink.

So there will be marquees and local beer, local vinyard tastings, hog roast that kind of thing. local sausages. oysters and stout.

The museum is a small charity, so we're looking to get plenty of people attending and hopefully some sponsorship from local business and so on. It's all about raising the profile of the museum and getting people in and spending a bit of cash.

I think some good lively semi-acoustic 'folkish' music would work well in that kind of context.

Anyone got any ideas at all about the whole project, funding, exhibitors, suppliers, sponsership, the right kind of bands (suitable for families and non-folky audience), please send them this way. Anyone with knowledge of hosting and organising similar (or even non related) events please post away.

Ideas are very much in the seed-sowing stages!