Prince announced for Hungary's Sziget Festival

With under three weeks to go until Hungary's Sziget Festival, Prince has been announced as the headliner of 'Day Zero' which takes place traditionally before the festival. This year falling on Tuesday 9th August when only a few stages are open.

Prince, who appears at Sziget Festival for the first time tops a line-up that includes New York's The Klezmatics, Serbian Boban & Marko Markovic Gypsy Orkestar, and Russian ska band Leningrad.

Each year alongside international stars the line-up also includes established Hungarian names and this year they will be Magyar Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Pannonia All-Stars Ska Orchestra, Vastaghuros Swetter Zenekar, Heaven Street Seven, Balkan Fanatik, Isten Hata Mogott, Hiperkarma, Freshfabrik, Budapest Bar, Ruzsa Magdi, and Caramel.

Sziget takes place on Óbudai-sziget ("Old-Buda Island"), an island in the Danube, Budapest, Hungary. 2011's Sziget Festival will be from Wednesday 10th to Monday 15th August, with camping available from the Monday 8th August. There are actually two days of events before the festival proper, 'Day One' which features only Hungarian acts, and 'Day Zero'.

These latest additions join Pulp, Interpol, The National, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Smash Mouth, The Chemical Brothers, Gotan Project, Dizzee Rascal, Marina And The Diamonds, Skunk Anansie, Hurts, The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, Hadouken!, Crystal Castles, Afrocubism, Eliades Ochoa, Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, Sonata Arctica, Triggerfinger, Goran Bregovic Wedding And Funeral Band, Les Hurlements d' Leo, Debout Sur Le Zinc, Ojos De Brujo, Rotfront, Verdena, Söhne Mannheims, and Great Imitation,with more still to be announced. There are many more still to be announced. For the line-up details as available please click here.

A camping ticket is priced at £150, or £125 without camping, and a caravan pass is priced at £100. To buy tickets, click here. Beware of false tickets. Buy your ticket only from authorised vendors.

Children aged 10 and under have free entry if accompanied by an adult. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

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