Cheshire's Just So Festival has confirmed its full programme for 2014 which promises to delve families further than ever before into a curious world of magic, daydreams and adventure.

Rightly claiming to be a true cultural highlight for families in summer 2014, Just So - which takes place from August 15-17 at Rode Hall in Scholar Green, Cheshire - showcases an eclectic mix of the best in outdoor family arts, taking families out of their day-to-day lives and inviting them to sing, dance, play, explore and discover art together in a spellbinding natural landscape.

Journey through sizzling safaris and snowy Siberia with Les Enfants Terrible, and their Magical Menagerie.

Watch marvellous beings spin softly through the air as Pif Paf stage their breathtakingly beautiful aerial performance Something To Hold.

Walk The Plank will also be dazzling audiences with their spectacular Shadowplay, an interactive kinetic sculpture with more than a pinch of the zany and vaudevillian.

Co-director Rowan Hoban said: “This is the biggest programme we’ve had to date, we’re going all out to make our fifth birthday celebration the most magical Just So we could dream of.”

As usual the musical line-up is rife with accordions, ukuleles, banjos, and horns.

Festival favourites Cut A Shine will be joined by Gabby Young and Other Animals, fine purveyors of the best circus swing as well as Keston Cobblers, winners of Six Music’s Rebel Playlist and self described kings and queens of “tuba-oom-pah folk pop”.

Exciting new areas including The Imaginarium, a bonkers world designed to transport you to 1920s Hollywood or the Antarctic through costume.

Alongside will be The New Curiosity Shop, a place to learn the art of being Sherlock Holmes, the tricks behind ventriloquism, or butterfly identification.

This will all be accompanied by the usual magical madness of midnight feats, pillow fights, den building and the Wild Rumpus Parade.

Tickets are selling faster than ever with Just So proving a firm family favourite year on year.

Full details of the acts, activities, adventures and tickets are available on the website now at www.justsofestival.org.uk.

Adult weekend tickets (including three nights camping) £100, children £45. Adult day tickets £35, children £15. Under threes free.