The British band Art Brut, whose 2007 album WAN2 put among the most important recordings of the year, will play in Hungary for the first time. Balkan Beat Box will bring an eclectic ethno programme to VOLT. After a memorable concert by Mano Chao last year, the festival organisers are following up with a performance by the bright young star of world music Che Sudaka. Fatima Spar and the Freedom Fries will bring hot-blooded Eastern European jazz, and Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band are expected to provoke, as they did at the opening the 2006 Glastonbury festival.
Hungarian performers confirmed for the VOLT programme include Tankcsapda, who will have their 20th anniversary gig on the main stage, Kispál és a borz and Quimby. New bands to play on the main stage are Kaukázus, Vad Fruttik, Péterfy Bori, Csík and 30Y. Old favourites Beatrice and Belga will also play the main stage this year, and Ákos is scheduled to play a highly anticipated festival-opener at the Sopron Arena on July 1.
Only four days after VOLT ends, festival-goers can travel to the Zamárdi beach on Lake Balaton, where the 3rd Heineken Balaton Sound Festival will take place over four days starting on July 9. Originally scheduled to play at Balaton Sound, Thievery Corporation has cancelled their European summer dates, but the organisers have since announced a dozen new international additions to the festival line-up.
One of the most popular electro-duets of the new house generation, Canada's MSTRKRFT, will bring material from their second album, released in March, to Balaton Sound.
