A couple of artists with some very famous connections will be featured at Saturday's Roots and Rails Music Festival at the Brantford Station Gallery.

Headlining the event — a showcase of folk and roots music — will be Astrid Young, half-sister of Canadian musical icon Neil Young.

The day will also mark the opening of a showing of artwork by Kilauren Gibb, daughter of folk music icon Joni Mitchell. The paintings will hang at The Station throughout September.

Gibb is also expected to take the microphone to perform several numbers with Brantford native Scott B, one of the musical artists providing nine solid hours of entertainment beginning at noon.

"The lineup is phenomenal," said Pearly Jenkins, a local musician who helped organize the festival and one of the performers. "It all has a rootsy kind of sound. Most of the material will be original. I didn't want a jukebox up there.

"And the venue is such an interesting place in and of itself."

Located at the city's Via Rail train station, The Station was once a bustling baggage check area for train passengers.

Roots and Rails will be held outdoors in the breezeway of the station, where the rumble of a passing freight train that shakes the foundation of the cafe is part of the charm.

Young's performance is likely to feature some selections from her fourth album, ONE NIGHT AT THE ROCK, released in the summer. She is in the midst of her "psychedelic, acid, folk" tour of southern Ontario, working her way west.

Young's musical journey has taken her from one genre to another in search of her own voice. Classically trained as a child, she played piano, flute, oboe and English horn.

When she was about 15, Neil gave Young her very first amp, a Fender Deluxe reverb. In 1991, he invited her to tour with him and they travelled the world.

She has said she long ago overcame her struggle of feeling overshadowed by her half-brother, 16 years her senior. She said he has been a huge musical influence but they have very different styles and ideas about recording.

Tutt has known Gibb for many years since the days when they both hung out at The Cameron House, Horseshoe Tavern and other musical haunts in Toronto's Queen Street West area.

Their friendship long pre-dates Gibb's discovery that Mitchell was her birth mother and their mother-daughter reunion in 1997.

Gibb's Brantford show includes about 15 landscape paintings she recently completed in the Kawartha Lakes area.

Mitchell, too, is an accomplished artist who has often said she is a painter first and musician second.

The breezeway at The Station is covered and the festival will be held rain or shine. The area can hold up to about 150 people who are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs.

Tutt said the festival is free of charge to the public because of a grant from the Brant Community Foundation, which allows him to pay the performers.

Jenkins said Tutt has a great love of art and music and is "willing to take chances" on those who may not otherwise get public exposure of their work.

Here's the lineup for Saturday's Roots and Rails Music Festival:

Noon -- Bill Cayley

1 p.m. -- Tim Gibbons

2 p.m. -- Lynn Jackson

3 p.m. -- Scott B

4 p.m. -- Rae Billing Band

5 p.m. -- Doug Feaver

6 p.m. -- The Delaware String Band

7 p.m. -- Pearly Jenkins

8 p.m. -- Astrid Young

ROOTS AND RAILS

What: The fifth annual Roots and Rails Music Festival, with nine performers playing roots and folk-based music. The headliner is Astrid Young.

Where: The Brantford Station Gallery.

When: Saturday from noon to 9 p.m.

Cost: Free