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WOMAD's new festival - Earth Station - has announced further acts.

An opportunity to receive and transmit ideas, issues and solutions towards a more sustainable planet, this innovative event melds the intellectual and cultural energies of leading scientific minds with a performance program featuring some of the world’s most accomplished and diverse musicians. The festival audience will be inspired by a refreshing and rare combination of discussion and music during a weekend of forums, displays and performances.

The line-up for the performance program is -

• The Kronos Quartet (USA)


• Abdullah Ibrahim (SOUTH AFRICA)


• Rickie Lee Jones (USA)


• Zakir Hussain (INDIA)


• Toumani Diabate (MALI)


• Konono No. 1( DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO)


• The Tallest Man on Earth (SWEDEN)


• The Audreys (AUS)


• The catholics (AUS)


• Emma Donovan Band (AUS)


• Frank Yamma & David Bridie (AUS)


• Iwantja Band (AUS)


• Ellis Pearson - “Man Up a Tree” (SOUTH AFRICA - site artist)


• Mark Atkins (AUS)


• Mista Savona (AUS)


• Pacific Curls (NZ)


• Paris Wells (AUS)


• Shanghai Chinese Orchestra (CHINA)


• Stan’s Cafe “Of All the People in All the World” (UK - site piece)


• Vika & Linda Bull (AUS)


• Wu Man (CHINA)


• The Yearlings (AUS)

The Planet Talks program includes -

• Bruce Thom AM (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and Emeritus Professor University of Sydney)


• Cate Blanchett & Andrew Upton (Sydney Theatre Company)


• Giselle Weybrecht (USA) (Author of The Sustainable MBA)


• Hunter Lovins (USA) (Founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions)


• Samantha Mostyn (Founder of the ‘1 Million Women' movement)


• Robyn Williams (ABC: The Science Show)


• Ian Lowe OA (President of Australian Conservation Foundation)


• John McTernan (UK) (Global expert on public service leadership, adviser to Tony Blair)


• Matthew Wright (Director, Beyond Zero Emissions)


• Rod Quantock (Australian Comedian)


• Mike Young (Director, Environment Institute Adelaide University)


• Mike Sandiford (Director, Melbourne Energy Institute & Professor of Geology Melbourne University)


• Paul Gilding (Author of The Great Disruption, former Head of Greenpeace International)


• Peter Cosier (Director, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists)


• Prof Lesley Hughes (Head of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University and Climate Change Commissioner)


• Roy Neel (USA) (Vice President Al Gore’s Chief of Staff)


• Paul Willis (Director, RiAus)


• Stephen Pekar (USA) (Assoc Professor School of Earth & Environmental Science, Queens College New York State)


• Tim Stubbs (Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists)


• Bernie Hobbs ( ABC: The New Inventors)


• Associate Professor David Paton


• Dominic Skinner (Freshwater Ecology Expert)


• Associate Professor Keith Walker


• Dr Graham Turner (Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems)


• Fiona Heinrichs (Author, Sleepwalking to Catastrophe)

THE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM - is being developed in collaboration with the Environment Institute and the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists.



When: 21-23 October 2011
Where: Long Gully, Belair National Park