Little Boots, and more announced for Wychwood

Electro-pop singer Little Boots leads the line-up of new musical confirmations for next month's Wychwood Music Festival.

Victoria Hesketh, better known as Little Boots will be performing at Wychwood on Saturday, joining her on the bill for that day are Austrian newcomer Agnes Milewski, and indie acoustic act Goldheart Assembly.

The Beetroot Kings have also been announced, appearing at the festival on Sunday along with Dakota, and Rook and The Ravens, and a new act for Friday is Declan Bennett.

They join the line-up of musical entertainment that includes the headliners for Friday are Super furry Animals, Saturday is Supergrass, and Sunday is Dub Colossus. Confirmations so far also include Dhol Foundation, The Beat, Cara Dillon, Bellowhead, Kissmet, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Red Light Company, The Wonder Stuff, Oysterband, John Jones, and Justin Adams with Juldeh Camara, with many more still to be announced. There's also comedy with Mundo Jazz, Arthur Smith, Sol Bernstein, Matt Barnard, Phil James, and Daniel Bland, with more to come. For the line-up details as available please click here.

The festival has also announced the children's authors who are taking part in this year's Children's Literature Festival, they include illustrators Kristina Stephenson, Hannah Shaw and Hilda Offen, storyteller Cat Weatherill, and authors Philip Ardagh, Karen Walace, Ruth Symes, Siobhán Parkinson, Jeremy Strong, Ulf Stark, Heather Dyer, Annette Butterworth and Nick Butterworth. Joining them are poets Carol Ann Duffy, and John Sampson.

After the success of the Roald Dahl Storytelling last year, Wychwood will have a whole new area dedicated to Children's Authors at this year's event. The Children's Literature Festival at Wychwood in association with The University of Worcester and Borders will include readings from some of the top authors of today, plus interactive workshops, performing, creating and dressing up!.

The festival, now in its fifth year taking place on Friday 29th May to Sunday 31st May 2009 at Cheltenham Racecourse, Prestbury Park, in Gloucestershire has established itself in just four years as being one of the best family festivals in the UK, and prides itself on its eclectic mix of indie, pop, world and folk music programming combined with comedy (sponsored by eFestivals.co.uk), solar powered cinema, loads of workshops, seminars and creative activities for all ages.

Tickets for Wychwood are on sale, priced at £110 for the weekend, with concessions costing £85, and up-to two under-12s FREE (extra under-12s £10 each), and a campervan/caravan pass is £30.
Day tickets are also available:
Friday: adult ticket is priced at £35, youth/concession £22.
Sunday: adult ticket is priced at £40, youth/concession £27.
Children under 12 tickets for any day are free.

To buy tickets, click here.

eFestivals is running a competition to win tickets to Wychwood, to find out more, click here.

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