Latest news from WOMAD 2015

The WOMAD (the World of Music Arts and Dance) Festival is poised to celebrate its 33rd year in July – and its ninth within Lord Suffolk’s spacious backyard at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury.

Already a raft of big hitters from the world music scene have been announced for the four-day event from July 23-26, including De La Soul, Tinariwen, Ghostpoet, Bellowhead and Laura Mvula.

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Now announced last week: Daddy G of Bristol’s Massive Attack has teamed up with dancehall MC Deemas J for a special collaboration in The Red Tent – one of several stages dotted around the meadows, woods and chill-out zones of Charlton Park.

Read here: http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/13310751.New_names_announced_for_33rd_WOMAD_Festival/

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More on the programmation - selection:

Cheikh Lô (Senegal) Cheikh Lô first came to international attention in 1996. He brings something different to the vibrant dance music of Senegal -  acoustic sounds and Sufi lyrics. Ezza (Niger) North African guitar rockers Ezza, take blues and rock and deepen it with desert Tuareg sounds. What they create is a rhythmic and relentless groove that is both modern and unique in its power. lcay Bayir lcay Bayir is an impressive newcomer to the vibrant global music scene. Born in the Kurdish region of southern Turkey, she studied opera and classical singing in the UK before bring her rich textured voice and stories to bear on Asian and Mediterranean musical traditions.

Kassé Mady Diabaté (Mali) This venerable, velvet-voiced elder of Mali brings WOMAD more traditional sounds from Africa. He has taken on the mantle of stately ambassador for his country's music for a good 40 years now. Nazim Ziryab (Algeria/UK) He has been compared the legendary Carlos Santana, but his music is a rich fusion of Algerian Chaabi, Sub Saharan rhythms blended with Pop and Reggae -- And also:The Mahotella Queens (South Africa)  Daddy G and MC Deemas (UK)  Mbongwana Star (Congo)  Maarja Nuut and Alhousseini Anivolla (Estonia and Niger)  Criolo (Brazil)  Sinkane (USA)  Nightmares on Wax (UK)  Tal National (Niger)  Pascuala Ilabaca (Chile)  The Soil (South Africa)  Violons Barbares (Bulgaria, France and Mongolia)  Winston McAnuff & Fixi (Jamaica/France)  Shy FX and Stamina MC (UK)  Wrongtom Meets Ragga Twins (UK)  Chassol (France) The Cambodian Space Project (Cambodia) Sheelanagig (UK)