Three-day world music, arts and dance festival, WOMAD, is best known for its eclectic spread of artists. Across a comfortable 55-acres of lush parkland, it's a festival to discover artists from far-off countries, hear instruments you had no idea existed on planet earth and speak the universal language of dance, possibly knee-deep in the onsite pond. Freshly announced, next year's bill follows that formula to a T. Artist spanning Chile, Lebanon, Mauritania and beyond will fly in for the concert at New Plymouth's Brooklands Park next March to deliver a blend of traditional and modern performances. A melting pot of genres will be on show, including folk, afro-funk, hip hop, classical, jazz and punk rock performed on violins, ouds, koras and squeeze boxes. In addition to already announced acts, Kamasi Washington, Anoushka Shankar and Dragon, the lineup features: UK dub pioneer Adrian Sherwood, Mexico heavy metal-inspired acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela, Brazilian afrobeat ten-piece Bixiga 70, Israel hip hop star Victoria Hanna, Chilean political-punk-poet Nano Stern and Ghanaian Jojo Abot who seamlessly blends electronica, indie-soul, reggae and hip hop. WOMAD 2018 LINEUP Adrian Sherwood (UK) Aldous Harding (NZ) Anoushka Shankar (India/UK), Bixiga 70 (Brazil) Chico Trujillo (Chile) Constantinople (Canada) Daymé Arocena (Cuba) Dragon (NZ) Ghada Shbeir (Lebanon) Havana Meets Kingston (Jamaica/Cuba) Hopetoun Brown (NZ) Jamie McDowell & Tom Thum (Australia) Jojo Abot (Ghana/USA) Kamasi Washington (USA) Lemon Bucket Orkestra (Canada) Le Vent Du Nord (Canada), My Bubba (Sweden/Iceland) Nano Stern (Chile) Noura Mint Seymali (Mauritania) Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana) Rahim Alhaj Trio (Iraq) Rodrigo y Gabriela (Mexico) Spooky Men's Chorale (Australia) The Miltones (NZ) The Slacks (NZ), Thievery Corporation (USA) Tinariwen (Mali) Victoria Hanna (Israel) Violons Barbares (France/Mongolia/Bulgaria) WOMAD New Zealand 2018 will take place at Brooklands Park, New Plymouth, from March 16 to 18. For more information and tickets, visit the WOMAD website.