Stellar line-up

Eastern European hippies, Colombian electro-acoustic trail-blazers, traditional Cambodian musicians, an award-winning Kiwi artist, a Pacific treasure, cultural performance groups from New Zealand and Hawai’i, and a stunning flags project join the WOMAD New Zealand 2011 line-up.

The newly announced artists: 17 Hippies (Germany), Sidestepper (Colombia), Mana Maoli (Hawai’i, United States), Tray So (Cambodia), Tiki Taane and the Dub Soldiers with Te Pou o Mangataawhiri (NZ), Lawrence Arabia (NZ), Will Crummer and The Rarotongans (Cook Islands/NZ), the Patea Maori Club (NZ) and Whitireia Performing Arts Group (NZ) will perform at WOMAD New Zealand 2011 at New Plymouth’s Brooklands Park and TSB Bowl from 18-20 March.

These artists join an outstanding line-up of performers from every corner of the globe delivering musical styles from calypso to afro-celtic, Inuit throat-singing to Mongolian rock, ska-fused rockabilly to electronica and everything in between.

Another new addition to WOMAD New Zealand 2011 is the Village of Wellness where festival goers can go to revive their bodies, minds and souls with massage, spiritual readings and foot spas to ease tired dancing feet. But more on that later.