Candi Staton and more for WOMAD

United Kingdom | | 06 February 2007

Candi Staton, Toots and the Maytals, Mariza and Imagined Village are among the latest acts confirmed for this year's WOMAD festival at its new home in Wiltshire...

The three-day world music festival takes place at Charlton Park, Malmesbury, from 27-29 July.

Other new acts include Balkan Beat Box, Cesaria Evora, CJ Chenier and Kung Nei & Ouch Savy.

WOMAD organisers have also announced an extension of their 'early bird' ticket offer, meaning you now have until the end of February to buy tickets for £110 before they rise to £120 on 1 March.

Buy HERE now.

The full lineup for the festival - as it stands - is listed below. Stay posted for more announcements in the coming weeks and months.

Baaba Maal (Senegal) ~ Balkan Beat Box (Israel/USA) ~ Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba (Mali) ~ Ben Taylor (USA) ~ Bill Cobham (USA) ~ Candi Staton (USA) ~ Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde) ~ CJ Chenier (USA) ~ Daara J (Senegal) ~ DJ Shantel (Germany) ~ El Tanbura (Egypt) ~ Imagined Village (UK) ~ Kronos Quartet (USA) ~ Kung Nei & Ouch Savy (Cambodia) ~ Lila Downs (Mexico) ~ Mariza (Portugal) ~ Marzoug (Algeria) ~ Samba Mapangala & Orchestre Virunga (Kenya/Democratic Republic of Congo) ~ Sam Tshabalala (South Africa) ~ Serta-Gesar Troupe (Tibet) ~ Sheila Chandra (UK) ~ Steel Pulse (UK) ~ The Dhol Foundation (UK) ~ Toots and the Maytals (Jamaica) ~ Toumast (Niger) ~ Warsaw Village Band (Poland)