PEOPLE across our county are celebrating the third annual Somerset Day today (Thursday) - and the fun's continuing into the weekend.
Fun events are taking place in several locations - today's action includes A Celebration of Somerset Talent at Temple Methodist Church, Taunton, with entertainment from young musicians from 5.30pm to 8.30pm.
Earlier on you can enjoy taster sessions at the official launch of the county town's Centre for Outdoor Activities and Community Hub beside the river in French Weir between 3pm and 5pm.
If you're holding back on the celebration for the weekend, then why not head for Castle Green?
It's staging a free Somerset Night, a laid-back after-work social with four DJs playing live party vibe house music and premium street food trucks from 5pm to 9pm on Friday And you might fancy returning on Saturday from 10am to 4pm for Eat Taunton food and drink festival, which also takes in Bath Place.
The same days sees the semi finals for young classical singers and pianists at the Somerset Song Prize at Temple Methodist at 11am, with the finals taking place at the same venue on Sunday, at 2pm.
They've already been getting into the mood in Bishops Lydeard, where the village has been yarn bombed, including a four-metre high creation put together by several volunteers.
The weekend programme of events includes a craft fair and music in the village hall on Saturday, with the school choir performing at 12.30pm ahead of an evening Ceilidh at 7pm.
Then on Sunday, there is a classic and vintage vehicle run, with vehicles leaving Lydeard House at 11.30am, touring much of the village and heading back to Gore Farm, where the afternoon includes a fun dog show.
Events are being held across the county as hundreds of us celebrate and champion everything it has to offer - and one of the faces of Somerset has joined in.
Michael Eavis, founder of the Glastonbury Festival, has become patron of Somerset Day alongside the Duke of Somerset.
He said: “Somerset is a county full of entrepreneurs and people who don’t take no for an answer.
"This place, where I was born, has given me the chance to do things that I wouldn’t have got away with anywhere else.”
Somerset Day here today. With our chairman photobombing the flag 🤣#SomersetDay #Somerset #FoodieThursday pic.twitter.com/5EifhzHVIP
— TauntonFarmersMarket (@TauntonFmarket) 11 May 2017
Here is our special #SomersetDay window featuring just Somerset-based artists (except we squeezed @JoMortimerArt's #BathPlace print in!!) 😁 pic.twitter.com/qwAAHIz70A
— Catherine Esbester (@gingerfig) May 11, 2017
Somerset Day was first held in 2015 and May 11 was chosen in a countywide vote as it marks the date when King Alfred the Great roused the people of Somerset to rise up and defeat the invading Danish Army in the year 878.
Somerset Day 2017
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