Guardian Music — Charlton Park, MalmesburyWomad's 30th anniversary required memorable performances, and they finally arrived as the festival drew to a close on Sunday night. Robert Plant has worked with guitarist Justin Adams in the past, but in his new band, Sensati... more info

Guardian Music — Various venues, LondonLondon Pleasure Gardens was a curiously bleak location for an ambitious pre-Olympic celebration: a gravel wasteland alongside an abandoned flour mill on the river's edge. It looked more like the set of a gritty movie than a conc... more info

Guardian Music — (IRL/Daisy Label/Proper)Southern Africa is a region packed with great singers and choirs, many non-professional. Last month's album from the Malawi Mouse Boys was a set of classy village music, and now comes a rousing and unlikely youth choir. Umoza... more info

Guardian Music — Event founded by Peter Gabriel to see other performances by Raghu Dixit and the Buena Vista Social ClubRobert Plant and his new band the Sensational Space Shifters will make their live debut as headliners of this year's Womad, as the festival celebra... more info

Guardian Music — Southbank Centre, LondonThe London African music festival is an impressively eclectic affair, so it was no surprise that two of this year's most interesting artists should be based in Paris and pioneers of North African fusion styles. Iness Mezel's f... more info

Guardian Music — Transcender, London"Ecstatic, hypnotic and just plain psychedelic" is the motto for the Transcender festival, the pervasive feeling of the event being that music from anywhere in the world can blow someone's mind. Now in its third year, Transcender b... more info

Guardian Music — Lexington, LondonLes Triaboliques are a quirky, much-travelled trio with impressive credentials. Their first ever show was in Siberia; their most recent appearances were in North Sudan and Norway; and now they are launching a UK tour in the upstairs ... more info

Guardian Music — (Wrasse Records)Iness Mezel has perfect credentials for a fusion artist. Her mother is French-Italian, her father is Algerian and she was brought up in Algeria and France, where she listened to disco and funk, and studied piano, singing and jazz impr... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: Video of the DayArtist: The Upside Down Video: 'God's Bare Hands' Highlight: "It's a love story in the tradition of John Hughes' 1985 film 'Weird Science.' When the perfect woman, the Earth angel is created, she's 'got on headphones, li... more info

Guardian Music — Charlton Park, WiltshireThis year's Womad will be remembered for a real-life world-music fairytale, as Staff Benda Bilili, the band formed by Congolese polio victims, made their first British festival appearance. Four of them came on in wheelchairs, ... more info