Feist to headline Green Man Festival

Canadian singer-songwriter Feist will headline The Green Man Festival as the first 26 acts are announced for the 10th edition and full priced tickets go on sale.

A long-standing member of acclaimed music collective Broken Social Scene, Feist has also collaborated with the likes of Wilco, Beck and Grizzly Bear and will appear on the Sunday of the festival, and is the first headliner announcedfor summer 2012.

She leads the first wave of acts confirmed, who are The Walkmen, The Felice Brothers, Yann Tiersen, Jonathan Richman, Junior Boys, Damien Jurado, Time and Space Machine, Cass McCombs, Scritti Politti, Slow Club, Ghostpoet, Peter Paphides, Peaking Lights, Dark Dark Dark, Cashier no 9, The Wave Pictures, Islet, Rocketnumbernine, Alt-J, Teeth Of The Sea, The Perch Creek Family Jug Band, Richard Warren, Goodnight Lenin, Sweet Baboo, and Alaska.

Two more headliners and over 100 other acts are yet to be announced for the festival which takes place annually at Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales. The dates for The Green Man Festival 2012 are confirmed as from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August 2012.

The Green Man Festival is a four day event with three days of music and more than 100 acts playing indie, psychedelia, Americana, and folk across 5 stages, while DJs playing everything from psychedlia, dub-reggae, modern electro and stoner rock right through the night.

Literature, film, theatre, ceilidhs, all-night bonfires, comedy and secret gigs are part of the festival's identity. The festival has carved a niche as a non-corporate and ethically-minded festival.

Ticket went on sale at 9am today priced at £145 for adults, £125 for students, £75 for teenagers, and £5 for children aged 5 and under. A live-in vehicle ticket will be priced at £60, and holiday tickets (bought in addition to a weekend ticket, allowing camping at Glanusk Park from Monday 13th August for 3 days before the festival opens) will be priced at £40. A resident day ticket will be priced at £50.

To minimise traffic congestion, any vehicle using any of the three main car parks (General, Family and Holiday Camping) at Green Man 2012 will need a £5 parking ticket. Be warned, there are a very limited number of tickets available for the Family Camping car parking.

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