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"The lineup for next year&amp;#039;s Womadelaide has been announced. The 20th anniversary of the Australian music and dance festival, which takes place in Adelaide&amp;#039;s Botanic Park in March 2012, is scheduled to feature a lineup of more than 550 artists from 34 different countries. Event organiser Annette Tripodi told The ABC: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve got a bit of a combination of some artists that we&amp;#039;ve loved from past festivals, like Tinariwen from Mali, Gurrumul from Australia, and mixing them up with a lot of artists who are making their Australian debut or their Womadelaide debut like Staff Benda Bilili from the Democratic Republic of Congo and many, many more.&amp;quot; Other performers include the Master Drummers of Burundi, French gypsy troupe Lo&amp;#039;Jo, Sharon Shannon Big Band from Ireland, Indian santoor virtuoso, Shivkumar Sharma and Aussie acts. Blue King Brown and the Pigram Brothers. This year&amp;#039;s Womadelaide featured performances from Indigenous musician Archie Roach, Canadian singer Martha Wainwright, Nathalie Natiemb\u00C3\u00A9 from Reunion, Ukrainian group DakhaBrakha and Brazilian band Os Mutantes. Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett recently led a number of on-stage discussions by artists, writers and scientists at a Womadelaide spinoff festival in the Adelaide Hills. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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