Artists/Line-up
The line up for ROTW 2009 is now complete, so keep checking back here for updates.
One of the highlights at ROTW 2009 will be Jazz Jamaica, who are the No 1 exponents of Skazz, a mixture of Ska and Jazz and who have been winners of BBC Jazz Band of the Year.
We’ve also got The Jive Aces returning to ROTW for a second time (they were so good last time and are always guaranteed to bring a smile to everyone’s face), and a legend (at least for people of a certain age) by the name of John Otway, with his renowned surreal sense of humour and a winning underdog persona.
We have also have Etran Finatawa bringing their desert blues from Niger, The Magnolia Sisters, an all female Cajun band from America, and rising stars Hjaltalin from Iceland.
To add to the variety we have Welsh language folk band Allan Yn Y Fan, Babylon Lane, a choir performing ‘shape note’ music, the young English folk duo The Askew Sisters, the reggae sound of Rebel Control and the genre indefinable The Otters.
Artists Line Up 2009
Saturday
FLAMBOYANT BELLA (BBC INTRODUCING STAGE) 
SAM ISAAC BAND (MAIN STAGE)
HJALTALIN (MAIN STAGE)
JAZZ JAMAICA (MAIN STAGE)
OPERA2GO (ST MARYS STAGE)
JOHN OTWAY (UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE STAGE)
Plus...
ARCADECLECTIC STAGE TOM STALLARD / HAZEL TURNOCK / EVE KILLIP / GRANT MEABY / NORTHERN FRISK / THE FACTION / M.A.R. / AL DAMIDGE / EASTSIDE JIMMY / C.C. SMUGGLERS / TOM WILLIAMS
BBC INTRODUCING STAGE THE OTTERS / MODEL HORROR / FLAMBOYANT BELLA / JOSE VANDERS / ROSES KINGS CASTLES / MAN LIKE ME / GEOMETRICS / PANDA POLICE / BEDLAMS CUBE / SHIROBON / KILTO TAKE / BANDANGOS DJ / BLEECH / GUN CRIME / LITTLE ALASKAN WORKSHOP
MAIN STAGE BOWFINGER / SAM ISAAC BAND / LIAM JENKINS / ALLAN YN Y FAN / HJALTALIN / JAZZ JAMAICA / CHRON GEN / TOQUE TAMBOR / REBEL CONTROL / WELWYN HARMONY LADIES CHORUS / JOE BRIGHAM
PRIORY PARK STAGE AGENT M / ERBALIST / BARON STUDIO SOUND / J / MORROCO / MARCUS HURLEY
ST MARYS STAGE LOL COXHILL / OPERA2GO / MAIRE NI CHATHASAIGH & CHRIS NEWMAN / ROB CLYDESDALE / OKA VANGA / PENNY RHYTHMS / THE TABLA RHYTHMIX / FIVE BROTHERS JAZZ AND SWING QUINTET / THE BAY BROTHERS / HOT CLUB DELUXE / BUDDHIST COMMUNITY CENTRE
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE STAGEUNDERWATER WEAPONS / ELAINE SIMPSON & INSPIRE / JOHN OTWAY / THE DEALERS / SOFASONIC / MY FIRST TOOTH / AMY & THE INTEGRALS / TABEEYA EGYPTIAN DANCE COMPANY / MUNTJAC / THERE WERE BEARS / TINKER JACK / KLAUS SAYS BUY THE RECORD / HMS GOODVIBES / FERNANDOS KITCHEN
Sunday
THE FISH BROTHERS (ARCADECLECTIC STAGE)
BLYTH POWER (ARCADECLECTIC STAGE)
ETRAN FINATAWA (MAIN STAGE)
THE JIVE ACES (MAIN STAGE)
Plus...
ARCADECLECTIC STAGE PAUL SCOURFIELD / CHRIS RIPPLE / FRED N AL / THE FISH BROTHERS / GRAEME LLOYD / DAVID VAN CAUTER / JOY T. CHANCE / LIKA SHARPS / BLYTH POWER / VINNIE GIBBONS / THE RAPIDES / THE JAMES BAY TRIO
BBC INTRODUCING STAGE THE NEW TOWN CENTRES / EXIT AVENUE / JUKEBOX VANDALS / IMPERIAL VIPERS / NEW GROOVE FORMATION / MISTER WILL TUCKER AND THE POLAR ICE CLUB / WEIGHTLOSS / BEARSUIT / FRACTURE / THE WATFORD SCHOOL OF MUSIC TAIKO / COMMON CHAOS / MARIANNE THORPE
MAIN STAGE MY PET JUNKIE / CARA-JANE MURPHY / EDUN ARA - BLOCO DE CARNAVAL / ETRAN FINATAWA / XLNC - H.S.TALWAR / THE JIVE ACES / DEE NYONI / THE MAGNOLIA SISTERS / OBISPO
PRIORY PARK STAGE DOUG / MATTY J / MR PHIPSON / THE ROGUE CREW / REGGAE B2B
ST MARYS STAGE COVENANT PRAISE CHURCH CHOIR / RICHARD STARK AND ANDREW HUBBARD / THE OCTOBER GAME / DAVID LLOYD / BALKAR SINGH / BABYLON LANE / NIGEL SHAW / CAROLYN HILLYER / TATYANA LAR
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE STAGE THE DEFEKTERS / FYREFLY / TAM LIN / CHRIS PHILLIPS / ANGELS STANDING BY / EIGHTEEN HOURS / THE RANDOLPH MATTHEWS TRIO / ALONEME / SUSIE RO AND AYLA / METAMAR