Real World

Right, mines a strong tea.. and mmmm yes to hobnob. Do you have the chocolate kind?

We would like to announce more artists coming to WOMAD Charlton Park 2009...

Kamel El Harrachi/Chaabi Music (France/Algeria)

Keb Darge (UK)

Mongrel (UK)

Snowboy (UK)

Sarah Savoy & The Francadians (USA)

Creole Choir of Cuba (Cuba)

Rachel Unthank and the Winterset (UK)

The Sweet Vandals (Spain)

Cimarrón (Colombia)

Kamal Mussalam Group with Sokoor & Abri (UAE)

Radiokijada (/France/Peru)

RASPO- Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra (UK)

Styl'O'Styl (France)

Zambezi Express (Zimbabwe)

Cool Crooners (Zimbabwe)

And...

Peter Gabriel (UK)

With more artist announcements coming very soon.

Dengue Fever will be in London next week for an instore performance on the 17th of June at the Pure Groove record store/gallery space. The performance time is 6.30pm and the address is: 6-7 West Smithfield, Farringdon, London, EC1A 9JX.

The following day, Thursday the 18th of June, Dengue Fever will be playing at the London Scala with Don Letts as special guest. This promises to be a fantastic evening so get your tickets now!

These two events will be Dengue Fever's only UK appearances this summer!

WOMAD will be announcing more artists on Monday 15th June. Grab a cuppa, pen and paper and settle down to listen to the sounds of the new additions. Who will you be marking as absolute definites on your WOMAD schedule?

June's Full Moon finds The Wrting Room a hive of activity around the 'Scratch My Back' project. Peter tells us that "You may be hearing it sooner than never and sooner than I normally mean when I say sooner" We also hear about a meeting of The Elders in The Atlas mountains, ideas for cooling the brain with Heath Robinson like ingenuity - does a cool head lead to quicker thinking? There's been an productive strategy meeting for Witness in London and Peter tells us that his drive to raise funds for the organization should see another live show from him in Europe this summer or later in the autumn. We also hear news of a fantastic project to build a new arts/performance centre for the Zawose Family in Bagamoyo and Peter gets in a plug for Real World Records releases by Spiro, Dub Colossus and Dengue Fever and music from Charlie Winston on The B&W Society of Sound.

You can NOW read WOMAD's latest newsletter online.

Proper, the lovely people who get our CDs into shops in many parts of the world, have two tickets to see Dengue Fever at the Scala, Kings Cross, London on Thursday 18th June, to win in a little competition on their site.

You may have heard Peter Gabriel talking about Charlie Winston's success in France over the past months. This month he is the featured artist over on The B&W Society of Sound, so even if you haven't been lucky enough to be enjoying spring in Paris, you can now check him out for yourself.

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