Saturday 19th September 2009

Dulsori

Paprika Balkanicus

Nathan Flutebox Lee

The Imagined Village

Khaled

Sunday 20th September 2009

Siyaya

Abdullah Chhadeh and Syriana

Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara

Tony Allen

The Bays and Heritage Orchestra

Biscuits and all other campsite essentials, including an off-license, will still be available in the all important campsite market.

Sunday: We have the great, the one and only Youssou N'Dour performing with Super Etoile de Dakar!

And Thursday treats? We have much in store for you:

Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra and Colores De Mi Tierra are working with Malmesbury schools to bring you their first performance of the evening, and one not to miss.

Music from the Penguin Café is the next in line, bringing hypnotic and expansive tunes to WOMAD Charlton Park.

Finally, The Skatalites, to skank into the night to!

Excited? We hope you enjoy our whole line up!

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• Day and Weekend Tickets available
• http://www.womad.org/festivals/charlton-park/

Returning this year will be the popular 'Taste the World' tent where artists show off their cooking prowess and, more often than not, turn the kitchen into an impromptu gig. The Drum and Dance Tent also makes a welcome return: think everything from early-bird yoga sessions and salsa lessons to night owl happenings. And for those who fancy a luxurious moment to themselves the WOMAD spa - complete with cocktail bar - is the place to go.

WOMAD promises to be bigger and better for kids and young people than ever before. The World of Kids will have the usual comprehensive programme of workshops, entertainment and activities; the magnificent Children's Parade is always a festival highlight.

WOMAD continues its well-established place as the best festival for the whole family: all children aged 13 and under get in for free.

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Portico Quartet are four young musicians from London who sound like nothing you've ever heard before. Their strange, beautiful sound was honed busking at the South Bank in London and playing in unusual spaces; churches, galleries and chill-out zones. The band, who all live together in East London, describe their ethos as like an Indy band that plays post-jazz and their unique, hooky sound has won them fans from Gilles Peterson to Radio 4 as well as catching the ear of Real World Records head honcho Peter Gabriel. Their debut album Knee-Deep In The North Sea (Babel/Vortex records) was named Time Out's Jazz, Folk and World music album of the year for 2007 and was one of the Nationwide Mercury Prize albums of the year for 2008

Portico Quartet signed to Real World Records in February 2009 and will record their eagerly anticipated second album and label debut with producer John Leckie (Doves, Radiohead, The Stone Roses) at the helm at Abbey Road in May followed by mixing at Real World.

"We are delighted to be releasing Portico Quartet on Real World Records. They create environments with their own world of sounds, that are as stimulating as they are soulful " Peter Gabriel

Rachel Unthank and The Winterset are forging links between folk worlds old, new and other. They have blown a bracing north-easterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould. Transcendent and grounded music folds around unsentimental old, new and imaginatively borrowed stories of booze, brawls, abuse, loss, fear, infantile death, depravity and sorrow

Described as "a bewitching, dream-like, down-to-earth masterpiece" in the Observer Music Magazine's Top 50 Albums of the 2007, The Bairns is already a classic in it's own lifetime, featuring as either the top or only folk album in every 2007 end-of-year poll it featured in. Dancing down the leftfield and singing in their own lilting Geordie accents, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset are the "inheritors, curators and gleeful distorters" (Ian MacMillan) of Tyneside's traditions.

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This project is the vision of Dub Colossus - Dubulah - aka Nick Page. Composer, guitarist, bass player and programmer Nick started his music career with Michael Riley (Steel Pulse) and has since worked with a long list of notable artists and eccentrics. In 1990 he formed Trans-Global Underground with Tim Whelan and Hammid Man-Tu, produced-wrote-played six albums before leaving in 1997 to form Temple of Sound with Neil Sparkes.

Dub Colossus was inspired by meeting, writing and working with Ethiopian singers and musicians in Addis Ababa in August 2006. The collaboration covers Azmari and traditional styles as well as the popular singing styles of the 60s and 70s.

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"if you're wondering why Afrobeat is hip, start here."

Observer Music Monthly

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• Click here for the opportunity to remix the album title track and win fantastic competition prizes.

Channi Singh Bhangra Band (India)

Ba Cissoko (Guinea Conakry)

Charlie Gillett with Special Guests

Cimarrón (Columbia)

Deaf Shepherd (UK)

Jim Moray (UK)

Malick Pathé Sow (Senegal)

Mamer (China)

Mec Yek (Belguim/Slovakia)

Nogabe Randriaharimalala (Madagascar)

Gochag Askerov (Azerbaijan)

Dennis Bovell Dub Band (UK)

Hindi Zahra (France /Morocco)

Victor Démé (Burkina Faso)

Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan (India)

"This will be my only show in Europe this year, and I am delighted it will be for Witness.org. I had no plans to play in the UK but when Festival Director, Chris Smith, heard I was looking for a suitable event, he generously offered the Saturday at WOMAD. We are trying to raise £100,000 for Witness." (Peter Gabriel on his performance at WOMAD 2009)

Support Witness by coming to see Peter Gabriel. Day and Weekend tickets for the event, which includes a mesmerising line-up of performers, playing, singing, cooking, dancing and entertaining, bringing the English countryside alive in myriad ways, are available.

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• More about Witness at witness.org

We would like to announce more artists coming to WOMAD Charlton Park 2009...

Kamel El Harrachi/Chaabi Music (France/Algeria)

Keb Darge (UK)

Mongrel (UK)

Snowboy (UK)

Sarah Savoy & The Francadians (USA)

Creole Choir of Cuba (Cuba)

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (UK)

The Sweet Vandals (Spain)

Cimarrón (Colombia)

Kamal Mussalam Group with Sokoor & Abri (UAE)

Radiokijada (/France/Peru)

RASPO- Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra (UK)

Styl'O'Styl (France)

Zambezi Express (Zimbabwe)

Cool Crooners (Zimbabwe)

And...

Peter Gabriel (UK)

With more artist announcements coming very soon.

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Order your breakfast bags, salads and fresh fruit from Riverford in advance and they'll be ready for collection at the Riverford Café beside Taste The World every morning. Additional extras for your festival feast available on request.

Click here for information on what's in the bags and call the farm on 0845 600 2311 to book your breakfast goodies.

Saturday 6 June 2009

An African blues party night to see the 2009 Festival out with a bang! The floor-filling double bill opens with Martinique-born, Marseillebased singer and guitarist David Walters - an unmissable one-man musicalbox who combines funk, soul, acoustic world and electronic beats. Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara perform raw and gutsy Afro-Blues that have set stages on fire from the tents of Womad to the Royal Festival Hall. Seasoned by work with Robert Plant and Tinariwen, Adams' driving guitar finds a perfect match in West African master musician Juldeh Camara's hypnotic ritti (African fiddle) and powerful voice. Their album Soul Science was picked as both fRoots and Songlines 2007 top 10 albums of the year, and was nominated for the Radio 3 World Music Awards. Tell No Lies, their second album released last month, was reviewed by the and received a five-star rating. As a live act, they invoke the spirit of ancient juju rock 'n' roll.

'rock and Africa come together in a rousing, urgent fashion' The Guardian

Pavilion £15 (concessions available)

8pm, Pavilion, Bath

Tickets 01225 463362

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Visit WITNESS and see how your gift directly supports the use of video to promote women's rights in Zimbabwe, Yemen and Mexico to make the world a safer place.

• more information at witness.org

WOMAD wish them the very best luck for the next few months and hope to see Fat Freddy's Drop soon.