You may remember i posted information about the new Heavenly Planet Festival that will take place on the Reading Festival site in 2009.  Well, now there is some more information trickling in!

The new festival has been created to fill the gap left in Reading by the departed WOMAD, which moved to Wiltshire three years ago from its home on the Thames. The festival will take place on the site already made famous by Reading Festival and WOMAD – adjacent to the River Thames in the heart of Reading – on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 July 2009.

tickets are on sale here priced £75 for the weekend or £35-£45 per day. Telephone: 0118 9606060 or on-line: www.readingarts.com

So far the line up includes, Drummers of Burundi, Sharon Shannon Big Band, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Wonder Stuff, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, The Oysterband – Ceilidh Set, Toto la Momposina & Colores de Colombia, Boban & Marko Markovic Gypsy Orchestra, Eliza Carthy
Chase & Status MC Fuse Takura & Plan B, The Bays, Bloco Electro, Bill Cobham in The Big Bang
The Fence Collective featuring The Three Craws – King Creosote, James Yorkston, The Pictish Trail
Ku-Da-Mix Orchestra, Glass Half Full, 9Bach, Patrick Duff, Sleeps In Oysters, Spiro, TC & Jakes

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