Among the highlights of the festival, to take place on August 11-16, will be a performance by Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club with Omara Portuondo.
Oi-Va-Voi
Oi-Va-Voi celebrated their tenth anniversary in front of an appreciative crowd at last year's Sziget. This year they are sure to play material off their latest album Travelling The Face Of The Globe.
The Nigerian Tony Allen, the drummer for Fela Kuti, will bring afro-beat merged with funk, jazz and Nigerian melodies and rhythms to the Sziget.
Los de Abajo, who published their debut in 1998 after drawing the attention of David Byrne, merge ranchera music, rumba, salsa, punk, hip hop and latin ska.
The German Stefan Hantel burst onto the scene in 2005 with Bucovina Club, an album that merged Eastern European and Balkan brass dance music and Arabian dance sounds. He followed up with Disco Partizani, which featured Taraf de Haidouks, and Planet Paprika, released in 2009. He has performed with the Bucovina Club Orkestra at festivals across Europe, from Glastonbury to Montreux.
Among the newcomers on the world music scene are Rupa and the April Fishes. Rupa Marya was born in San Francisco, the child of Indian parents, and she grew up in California, India and France. Hindi, English, Spanish and French are all languages that play an important role in her songs which are influenced by French chansons, but with a touch of the Balkans, India and Mexico.
Amparo Sanchez was sixteen years old when she appeared in Granada-based band Correcaminos, in 1986. Interested in jazz, soul, blues as well as rock, she decided to form her own band Amparo and the Ganget soon after. Sanchez has collaborated with the American band Calexico.
Cankisou
Other foreign acts on the programme are Dirtmusic,Jaune Toujours.Cankisou,Kries, Mahala RaiBanda and Rotfront, a Russian-Hungarian-German-American collective based in Berlin.
Among the Hungarians in the lineup are favourites Parno Graszt, the Csík Band and Söndörgő.
