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Unearthed Festival, the grassroots three-day gathering near St David's in Pembrokeshire, returns for its 14th year next month.
Headlining the festival this year, which takes place from June 19 to 21 is Mercury Prize-winning drum and bass pioneer Roni Size - topping a bill that places international names on the same stage as West Wales' rising independent artists.
Also appearing on the main stage are:
• Goldie Lookin Chain — Welsh cult rap collective, winners of the UK Festival Award for Best Urban Act.
• The Herbaliser Band — London's eight-piece live powerhouse blending hip-hop, jazz, funk and cinematic brass.
• League of Rebelz — East London Angolan-Spanish brothers, conscious reggae rooted in Rastafari, soul and funk.
• Omega Nebula — Live electronic duo fusing Jamaican sound-system culture with bass, dub, jungle and dubstep.
True to the festival's ethos, Welsh artists share top-line billing - a total of 70% of acts across the festival. Highlights from the West Wales contingent include:
Tomos Newman — Pembrokeshire folk singer-songwriter, supported by the Forte Project.Queen Beezie — St Davids-based punk/funk/soul/reggae outfit built for the dancefloor. Twpsyn — Pembroke-based psychedelic rock; fronted by George, who runs the town's Main Street Music shop and once sold matchbox guitars at Unearthed!Plus Dan Bettridge, Samana, DJ Moonshine, Timabli, Awenvarda and many more.
Beyond the Main Stage, Dub Corner, Cosmic Cwtsh and the Freedom Stage run grassroots music from dawn into late night — psy, techno, liquid dub, dubstep, punk, singer-songwriters, rap and spoken word.
The wider programme includes Unearthed's fire procession and closing ceremony, Temple Tent workshops and healing sessions, late-night jam spaces, theatre, cabaret and roaming performers. Green Crafts returns with a full programme of workshops and The Wild Water Sauna invites guests to find a moment of calm through their hot and cold water rituals.
You can find out more at: www.unearthedfestival.co.uk

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00:19We're all here together as family to celebrate our aliveness, celebrate our spirit, our bodies,
00:28our togetherness with each other.
00:35Together we re-awaken, we remember our culture of being on the land, of being together, of being whole.
00:51And I welcome you all to that wholeness to share it together.
01:02Cheers.
01:03Cheers.
01:03Cheers.
01:15Cheers.
01:31There's music in the air
01:34People on high
01:38You can see it in their faces now
01:42Watch them smile
01:44Smile, smile
02:04Listen darling, hold me tight
02:12We're going out marching
02:14Then we'll dance all night
02:20Till the sun comes up
02:22I won't let your spirit down
02:24Till the sun comes up on our hometown
02:28Till the sun comes up
02:30We're all going to gather around
02:32Dance, dance, dance, dance
02:52Feel that vibration
03:08Remember the kindness that you've experienced this weekend
03:11Remember the care with which we looked after each other
03:14The care with which you've looked after this land
03:16Which my father, grandfather and great-grandfather farmed on
03:20The same land that's been practicing sacred ceremonies on the hill over there
03:24And certainly in two fields over here
03:26We are part of this tradition
03:28Let that flow through us
03:30May it flow through you
03:31People they can't even try
03:34So tonight I celebrate why
03:39I'm alive
03:42Some people fight
03:45Thank you all chew
03:45That's a fact with me
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