WOMAD 09 More Acts Announced!

WOMAD Festival announces even more exciting acts for 2009

The names keep coming: Barcelona-based Latin American punksters, Che Sudaka. Israel's dance-floor fusionists, The Apples. British singer-songwriter (and former Peter Gabriel support act), Charlie Winston. From the east comes China's new grassland musician, Mamer, and from the west comes Chicago's jazz and hip hop septet, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

And coming: hip-hop icon Neneh Cherry features in the line-up of Swedish electro-pop collective cirKus. Then there's London-based Balkan/Gypsy firebrands Los Desterrados, cult Berlin folk-rockers 17 Hippies and two of Australia's most acclaimed Indigenous singer-songwriters - Shellie Morris and Archie Roach. Archie will also be joined onstage by special guest Ruby Hunter. And from Argentina, comes the exotic and cool tangos of Melingo.

Hip-swivelling Cuban rap pioneers Orishas will show why they're considered a national treasure in Latin America and have become a phenomenon everywhere else. Fronted by three buffed, boyband-parodying rappers/singers - crooner Roldan Rivera and compadres Ruzzo and Yotuel - Orishas fuse hip-hop beats with Afro-Cuban rhythms to scorching, innovative effect. Expect hits such as 537 C.U.B.A, Qué pasa and Naci Orishas. Most of all, expect to dance.
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