A FESTIVAL dedicated to the memory of a musician who died after a car crash is set to go ahead.

Corran ‘Coz’ Powell was just 21 when his car was involved in a head-on collision in Braintree Road, Gosfield, in 2014.

He was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries but died eight days later without regaining consciousness.

Friend and passenger James Simmons also died in the crash.

It was later revealed the other driver, who died at the scene, was drunk and high on a cocktail of drugs.

Coz’s family described him as a music lover and gifted musician who loved to play but also encourage his peers at Sound Academy, a charity funded music school.

Coz wanted to expand on the academy’s work and offer an open air venue for new bands.

Parents Gen and Antony wanted to continue his dream and started the annual CozFest music festival.

Now it has been confirmed the event will go ahead this year following the pandemic.

Each year the festival is held at Foxborough Hills in Sible Hedingham.

Coz’s parent bought the land for £50,000 after fundraising efforts to run woodlands survival courses – which Coz had been saving up for – as well as planting a memorial woodland.

At the event, visitors can sponsor a tree to plant in the memory of a loved one.

The festival is endorsed by the internationally famous Welsh heavy metal band Bullet For My Valentine, who carry Coz’s ashes with them and send a video message to play at the festival each year.

This year’s event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, August 28 and 29, and this year there will be wild camping in a field next to the festival.

A variety of acts are taking to the stage and include Coz’s brother Jaz Powell, Sarah and the Others, George Sanders and the Parallels, Mercury Rising, Osmium Guillotine and Meanstreak.

Gosfield Social Club is providing a beer tent, which will also host a Gin and Prosecco Bar and Pimm’s O’clock.

Stalls will also be selling jewellery, trinkets, candles and gifts, and there will be holistic healing and meditation tents, and birds of prey.

For more information, visit cozfest.uk.