Nick Page's project Dub Colossus has been confirmed as the final headline act for the Wychwood Festival. Recently number one in the European World Music charts, the album "In A Town called Addis" also appeared in many music lovers top ten for 2008 and follows great applause at Glastonbury and the Barbican.

Fast becoming one of the UK’s most successful independent outdoor summer events, not to mention the most family friendly, Wychwood Music Festival is delighted to announce even more amazingly diverse acts for its fifth anniversary year. Wychwood will once again take place at the prestigious Cheltenham Racecourse from Friday 29 May to Sunday 31 May 2009, set to the backdrop of the rolling Prestbury Hills.

The last of the three headliners for this year’s Independent Stage has been confirmed as Dub Colossus on the Sunday night. The latest project from Nick Page (aka Dubulah), the founding member of Trarisglobal Underground and Temple of Sound, will join the previously announced headliners Super Furry Animals (Friday) and Supergrass (Saturday). Also confirmed for the Independent Stage on Friday Is folk-rock five piece The Men They CouIdn~t Hang, while Sunday’s Independent Stage welcomes Irish folk star Cara Dillon and hip-hop tinged, acoustic outfit Free Peace. Finally for the Independent Stage’s Sunday line-up will be Bhangra collective Dhol Foundation and a collaboration from BBC World Music award winners Justin Adams & Juldeh Camera.

The first of Wychwoods Big Top headliners has been confirmed as Jo Whiley favourites and one of NME’s “Hottest new bands of 2009” Red Light Company, who are confirmed for Sunday’s line-up. Also performing under the canvass this year will be rising singer-songwriter Ella Edmondson on the Friday followed on Saturday by The Bad Shepherds, a folk-come-punk project featuring her father and The Young Ones/Bottom star Adrian Edmondson.