WOMAD Festival have just announced that its Co Founder Peter Gabriel will play at WOMAD festival on Saturday July 25.

A limited number of day tickets are now available. It will be the only European performance following his successful South America tour early this year.

“This will be my only show in Europe this year, and I am delighted it will be for Witness.org "I had no plans to play in the UK but when Festival Director, Chris Smith, heard I was looking for a suitable event, he generously offered the Saturday at WOMAD. We are trying to raise £100,000 for Witness."

Witness has worked with more than 150 groups and in 50 countries worldwide and won many awards, most often for innovation and use of technology. This year's WOMAD festival, the 27th annual event in the UK, has a wonderful eclectic mix of artists from all over the world ranging from the familiar to the unusual, with many artists performing in the UK for the first time.

Artists include: Che Sudaka (Spain), cirKus (Sweden), Orishas (Cuba), Roy Ayres (USA), Dub Colossus (UK/Ethiopia); Enkh Jargal (Mongolia), Ethiopiques (Ethiopia), Hindi Zahra (France), Mad Professor, Dub Show (UK), Mariem Hassan (Western Sahara), Nneka (Nigeria), Oumou Sangare (Mali), Portico Quartet (UK), Rokia Traoré (Mali), RSD featuring Joe Peng (UK), Solomon Burke (USA), Spiro (UK), Victor Démé (Burkina Faso) and Wang Li (China).

Day and weekend tickets are available on line at the WOMAD web site via the link on the right. Children 13 and under go free.