WOMAD Festival has launched a competition to discover and encourage new talent. All musicians; soloists or bands, signed or unsigned, can take part in the WOMAD Open Call to Bands and get to play at WOMAD Charlton Park 2011.

The competition mechanic is simple; entrants put their video onto the WOMAD website before 01 June and raise as much awareness as possible to get the public vote. The musician(s) with the most votes gets to play on the Charlie Gillett stage at WOMAD this summer. Voting closes 22 June.

The competition is open to everyone over 18.

WOMAD will announce the competition winner on Friday 24th June 2011.

To enter in the competition, please visit http://womad.org/news/womad-open-call-to-bands

For more information please contact Charlotte Vikstrom – [email protected] (+44 7545 734659) or Dee McCourt – [email protected] (+44 (0) 7803 726543) at Borkowski Arts & Ents on 020 3176 2700

Notes for editors:WOMAD Charlton Park 2011 takes place at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire on the weekend of 29-31 July.  The organisation now has 29 years’ experience of hosting festivals worldwide. More details at womad.org