Womadelaide

Australia's favourite outdoor festival, WOMAD, will be celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2012. Adelaides Botanic Park will come alive 9-12 March and transform into The Worlds Festival featuring musicians, dancers and artists from across the globe. The unique program will again be supported by the Taste the World program, the KidZone, Artist in Conversation sessions, workshops and delectable food and shopping in the Global Village.

	BLUE KING BROWN Hailed by Carlos Santana as "The voice of the street and the band of the future", Blue King Brown defines urban roots music empowered with fiery social messages. Built on a rock-steady foundation of reggae, their distinctly original sound unites Afrobeat, world and Latin influences with Natalie Pa'apa'a's fiery vocals and political lyrics.			DIEGO GUERRERO Y EL SOLAR DE ARTISTAS His voice and guitar carries the raw, grainy expressiveness that characterises the passion of true flamenco, yet Diego Guerrero is a bold innovator. He fuses Afro-Cuban rhythms of tango and copla, salsa and jazz into flamenco – a blend reflected in his septet, drawn from Spain, Cuba and Mauritius.

	EDDI READER A singer-songwriter of rare ability, Eddi Reader brings beauty to all forms of song, from the traditional to the contemporary. Her voice - the signature of 80s band Fairground Attraction - has propelled her stellar solo career, crowned by the classic album Songs of Robert Burns, for which she was awarded an MBE.			FIRST AID KIT As standard-bearers of the new folk idiom, young Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg strike clean harmonies atop simple guitar, autoharp and keyboards. Their debut album, The Big Black & The Blue, released when Klara was aged 17 and Johanna 19, earned inclusion on several influential 'best of 2010' lists.

	GROUNDATION Capturing the essence of true roots reggae, Groundation also blends jazz and dub into their sound. Since 1998, singer Harrison Stafford, keyboard player Marcus Urani and bass player Ryan Newman have steered a floating nine-piece line-up through nine albums of collective improvisation with a dip into funky horns and Afro-Latin polyrhythms.			TINARIWEN From out of the Western Sahara, Tinariwen strike up a stunning and rebellious new strain of 'desert blues'. Ripe with electric guitars and rhythms inspired by the loping gait of the camel, Tinariwen's songs echo with nostalgia for their ancient Touareg nomadic lifestyle and rage against the indifference to their plight.