Mos Def, George Clinton and Rodrigo y Gabriela Headline New Stage At Glastonbury Festival

Glastonbury Festival has announced a new stage for 2010 and its full line up.

The West Holts Stage will replace The Jazz World Stage at the same location and is headlined by Mos Def, George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic and Rodrigo y Gabriela.

"We're going back to the real roots of Worthy Farm and its history with the name change for the stage," says Glastonbury main man Michael Eavis.

"West Holts was a 'halt' originally; one of the two places where we had to open the level crossing gates across the old railway line to get the cattle through for milking. It was a fair walk up to the farm, just as it is now, and those cows took some driving!"

Asked to sum up the sound of the stage, Eavis said: "Global future roots music."

The West Holts Stage line up is as follows:

FRIDAY JUNE 25TH

• Mos Def (with full live band)
• Femi Kuti
• TBC
• Breakestra with Charli 2na
• Mariachi El Bronx
• Tune-Yards
• Matthew Herbert Big Band

SATURDAY JUNE 26TH

• George Clinton with Parliament / Funkadelic
• Jerry Dammers Spacial AKA Orchestra
• Os Mutantes
• Devendra Banhart
• Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
• Phenomenal Handclap Band
• Brother Ali
• Troy Ellis & the Longshots

SUNDAY JUNE 27TH

• Rodrigo y Gabriela
• Toots & the Maytals
• Quantic & His Combo Barbaro
• Staff Benda Bilili
• Dr John
• Tunng
• The Bees
• Dizraeli (chosen from the Emerging Talent Competition finalists)

(by Scott Colothan)

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