More leading musicians have signed up for a new 20-mile walk called Avebury Rocks, which is raising money for the Prospect Hospice.

Marlborough’s own singer Nick Harper, who is co-organising the event on July 9, will be joined by singer-guitarist Newton Faulkner, who has had singles and albums in the UK charts and performed at the Glastonbury and Isle of Wight festivals.

Others on the bill are the five-piece girl band Victoria, Mike Peters from The Alarm and Cy Curnin from The Fixx. They will be performing along the route and taking part in a concert that will round off the day.

Nick Harper, whose late mother Monica Weston was head teacher at St Peter’s Primary School in Marlborough, is no stranger to playing outdoors and was featured in the Gazette last year playing 7,000 feet up in the Andes in South America as he trekked towards Machu Picchu.

Avebury Rocks is a new event being organised by the Rotary Clubs of Marlborough and Swindon Thamesdown together with the Love Hope Strength Foundation charity.

Nick Harper and Ian Ritchie, who are both Rotarians, are on the organising committee together with Mike Polack from Avebury and Daniel McNally from Prospect Hospice.

This is an event which the organisers hope will become a regular fixture on the calendar. It is hoped that up to 800 local people, walkers and supporters of the musicians will take part.

The musicians will stop at intervals along the way to play and sing and their equipment will be carried by Territorial Army volunteers.

The Prospect Hospice was chosen as the charity to benefit because Nick Harper’s mother spent her last few days in the hospice at Wroughton.

Mike Peters, singer with the Welsh rock band The Alarm, has suffered from leukaemia for some time and he founded the Love Hope Strength Foundation, which raises money for cancer charities and has already organised similar musical treks worldwide including Everest Rocks in 2007 and Fiji Rocks 2010.

Tickets are limited to 500 walkers who will also receive a ticket for the evening concert plus a further 300 tickets for the concert.

Registration packs for the Avebury Rocks walk can be downloaded from www.lovehopestrengthfoundation.co.uk or by ringing 07814 404877; concert tickets are available from from Sound Knowledge in Marlborough (01672) 511106.