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Cankisou and Tony Allen in the Sziget 2010 lineup

Sziget News — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:19:13 +0000

Two more acts are now self-confirmed for this year’s Sziget Festival on their official MySpace pages (thanks a lot, Mellowmaniac & Gaborka78).

First of all, there’s Cankisou, a Czech band (from Brno), that are set to play the Sziget Festival 2010 World Music Stage on August 11, according to their official MySpace. The date is also confirmed on their official website.

Then, Tony Allen is also self-confirmed on his MySpace page. Tony Allen is a very experienced drummer (and one of Africa’s most appreciated).

As our friend Mellowmaniac told us,

As drummer of the legendary Fela Kuti he was one of the innovators of the Afro-Beat.

In later years he collaborated with Damon Albarn (Blur), Paul Simonon (The Clash), and Simon Tong (The Verve) as “The Good, The Bad & The Queen”.

Other collaborations he did in the last few years are with finish electrojazzer Jimi Tenor, and the french artists Air, Sebastian Tellier and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

If you remember, The Good, The Bad & The Queen have played Sziget’s Main Stage in 2007.

Oi Va Voi self-confirmed for Sziget Festival 2010

Sziget News — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:44:49 +0000

siraic, one of our Twitter followers (by the way, if you’re not following us on Twitter, you can do so by clicking here) gave us some very interesting news today.

Oi Va Voi, an act that played Sziget’s World Music Stage in 2009, too, will be headlining the said stage this year, too. Their presence is self-confimed on their iLike page.

Oi Va Voi are set to play Sziget on August 13.

Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club for Sziget 2010!

Sziget News — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:48:05 +0000

Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club have confirmed their appearance at this year’s Sziget Festival on their record company website.

They will play Sziget on August 11.(thanks, Mellowmaniac, gurkeyy and alessandro).

Alamaailman Vasarat at this year’s Sziget Festival

Sziget News — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:19:02 +0000

“The Finnish prophets of fictional world music”, as they call themselves, will play Sziget Festival this year. Their performance will take place on August 14th, as mentioned on their website.