A diverse and dynamic group of musicians who had all caught the Chicha bug start playing together under the direction of Gareth Finnegan. They bring numerous musical styles and sensibilities to the mix, imbuing timeless Amazonian vibes with punk rock attitude. After two years together, the sound and live performance of Los Chinches is a technicolour burst of energy driven by a fierce frontline of percussion.

Los Chinches - Un Shipibo en Espana

According to Amira, music has always been a journey of the spirit. Amira's roots are in Italy and the Sudan, and her songs are a gorgeous shimmering reflection of this multicultural legacy.

Amira Kheir - Ahel Allel

Modeste's music is unique to Betroka, a town in the central southern part of Madagascar, where traditional local sounds are woven together with softer South African dance rhythms. Modeste combines a velvety singing voice with some of the most dextrous guitar playing you're likely to see.

Modeste - Agapi Mou

Andrew Cronshaw is a British multi-instrumental explorer, producer and world music journalist. His dramatic, spacious music combines perspectives from English, Scottish Gaelic, Finno-Ugrian, Iberian, Middle Eastern, Polish, Serbian, Armenian and other traditions. Over the past three years Andrew has been joined in a mesmerising duo by Tigran Aleksanyan, a master of the duduk, Armenia's exquisitely soft-toned apricot wood oboe, one of the world's most plaintive and beautiful wind instruments. Their sound is sublime, it comes from nowhere and everywhere, and it transports you far beyond the orbit of any ordinary gig.

Andrew Cronshaw and Tigran Aleksanyan - Kaarme (Live)

Jali Fily Cissokho is a virtuoso kora player and ancestral praise singer. Fily is an integral part of the Livestock experience, having stolen the show every year since 2007. In 2010, he returns with the Coute Diomboulou band, and their own irresistible brand of Afro-Soul.

Jali Fily Cissokho - Tomas Sankara

Harry's Tricks is a collection of Brighton-based musicians, led by the magnificent Mike the Mic, the pioneer of 'swing rat scat', a style of singing like no other. Returning to Livestock as a trio to open the 2010 festival, Harry's Tricks specialise in joyful jazz from the 1920's to the 1940's, the halcyon days of pop music.

Harry's Tricks - Peanuts

The 309s take their name from the last song written by Johnny Cash. Since forming in 2007 they've become specialists in classic American pop music, from old stompalong fiddle tunes to western swing and rockabilly. Imagine Hank Williams, Bob Wills, and the young Johnny Cash all joining forces at a West Yorkshire barndance, and playing a repertoire mixing up all the prime materials of rock and roll. Add some snappy dressing, slick choreography and a bit of onstage banter and you have The 309s.

The 309s - Bring It On Down To My House

Lorraine hooked up with the cowboys last year especially for a gig at Livestock. They had such a ball, and went down such a treat, that they've stayed together ever since. Their overall sound is influenced by the Glasgow Blues style of Frankie Miller and Alex Harvey, country blues from the Reverend Gary Davies and Mississipi John Hurt, and the luminous songwriting of the new first ladies of country, Mary Gauthier and Gillian Welch.

Lorraine Lucas and a Couple of Cowboys - Gamblin' Bar Room Blues

The Knights of Mentis are an ancient and venerable chivalric order whose origins continue to perplex even the most scholarly of scholars. It is generally agreed that they first appeared somewhere between Memphis and Atlantis at an uncertain point in the thirteenth century. Still more uncertain is the precise moment at which the Knights exchanged their clodpoles, pikes and swords for banjos and mandolins. Their divinely-appointed purpose is to comfort the disturbed, even as they disturb the comfortable, by use of old-time string band music. Pilgrims who worship at the altars of Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show will surely be succoured by the Knights of Mentis at Livestock.

The Knights of Mentis - It Ain't About You

Back in the dying days of the twentieth century Rob Powell was a student in Dublin. In his spare time he crafted beautiful, bucolic songs inspired by nature, romance and fantasy. His gentle singing voice, his sense of old-fashioned chivalry, and his intricately finger-picked acoustic guitar set him apart from what was passing for popular music at the time. Rob became an underground sensation, so he formed a group and took a typically self-effacing stage name. Bowell and The Movements were born, and they flourished for a year or two before graduation and new opportunities took each of the band to new places. Rob moved to London, and then to America, and those of us who had seen him play in Dublin were left to wonder what might have been. A rumour spread earlier this year that Rob had picked up his guitar again and had played a few gigs in New York. We wasted no time getting in touch to coax him into coming to Livestock, and we are delighted to announce that not only are Bowell and The Movements reforming for the festival, but also that this will be the first time they have played together in more than ten years.

Bowell and the Movements - The Searcher

Bigg Taj is a Glaswegian beatboxer, producer, singer and songwriter. One of the great ambassadors of contemporary mouth music, Taj has spread the beatbox gospel at workshops for the BBC, appearing with Shlomo of Foreign Beggars. Bigg Taj also played at Edinburgh's first breaking convention in 2007 and at We B Girlz in Berlin. He was crowned beatbox champion of 2005 in Newcastle, and was a finalist in the UK beatbox championships in 2005 and 2009.

Bigg Taj and Scatabrainz - Underground Movement

Putting the boot into 'boutique festival'. Live music from around the world in the garden of a country pub, downhome country bands, an international food-fair, local ales, exotic animals, vintage tractors, activities for kids, morris dance mayhem, and a whole lot more ... Livestock - the loveliest little festival in the land.

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