The award-winning family-run Truck Festival, set up to showcase Oxfordshire talent, is one of the county's best-loved summer gatherings, attracting thousands of fans and artists.

The two-day annual event, which last year celebrated its tenth anniversary, has been hailed Britain's best festival in the national Indie Music Awards.

This year's festival takes place on July 19 and 20. Acts include Morrison Steam Fayre, Maps Camera Obscura, Noa and the Whale, The Television Personalities, Small Faces legend Ian Maclagan, Martin Simpson, Little Fish, Richard Walters, The Winchell Riots and Borderville.

For more details visit the website: www.thisistruck.com Paul Simon has been confirmed as the headline act at this summer's Cornbury Festival on July 5-6.

It will be a rare appearance in the UK by the singer songwriter who made up half of the legendary duo Simon and Garfunkel and also enjoyed massive solo success.

Simon joins an impressive Cornbury line-up that includes Crowded House, The Bangles, Nick Lowe, 10cc and Toots & The Maytals, along with a younger generation of stars including KT Tunstall, Beverley Knight, Tom Baxter and Irish performer Imelda May.

This year will also see a strong blues contingent featuring Eric Bibb and rising star Joe Bonamassa, while the Oxford Folk Festival stage will feature Bellowhead, Salsa Celtica and American country star Tift Merritt.

For more information call 0871 472 0420 or visit the website www.cornburyfestival.com Organiser's of Fairport's Cropredy Convention are advising fans to book early.

The three-day musi festival, held in the north Oxfordshire village, will run between Thursday, August 7, and Saturday, August 9.

Oxford band Supergrass have been confirmed as headliners for the event, and othe acts will include Levellers and Midge Ure.

For more information visit the website www.fairportconvention.com The Irish soul band The Commitments will be opening this year's Towersey Festival over the Bank Holiday weekend, August 21-26.

They will be on stage on the Thursday evening, which is traditionally given over to musicians outside the mainstream of the folk music and dance festival.

Other groups booked to appear include the Poozies, Show of Hands, Blowzabella and Whapweasel.

For more information call 01629 827016 or visit the website www.towerseyfestival.com

One of the biggest names in pop music, Mark Ronson, has been signed up to play Wakestock, a music and watersport festival at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, this summer whose groundbreaking collaborations with artists such as Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, and Robbie Williams have earned him three Grammy award and a Brit Award for Best Male Artist, will headline June's Wakestock festival.

The artist will join a growing line-up of top-name acts alread booked for the three-day party. Already confirmed are Oxford bands Supergrass and Young Knives, and dance act Groov Armada. Other new additions to the bill are The Futureheads, Calvin Harris, Pendulum, Lightspeed Champion, Trophy Twins, and Part Time Heroes.

It will also showcase the sport of wakeboarding - an activity similar to waterskiing, in which participants surf behind a boat. Oxford-based TCT Music, run by promoter Alan Day and the former owner of Cowley Road's Zodiac club, Nick Moorbath, is involved in the promotion of the event.

For more information visit the website www.wakestock.co.uk