PURBECK Folk Festival returns to Langton Matravers for August Bank Holiday with a mind-boggling range of folk music. This time there is a mix of urban shanty and ragged cajun punk to go with the ceilidh dancing and folk award-winning songwriters at this years event.

Dizraeli is a rapping hip-hopping folkster with a reputation for brilliant lyrics. He uses the term ‘urban shanty’ for some of his songs. With his seven piece band, The Small Gods, Dizraeli is expected to be among the highlights of the festival in 2013.

Diz said: “We play a folked, melodic, unashamedly heartfelt reinvention of hiphop. We want to tingle your spine, nod your head and generally folk with your idea of what hiphop can be.”

Latest headliners to be announced for the festival are Cajun punksters Mama Rosin, known for their raw take on the music of French speaking Louisiana. Robin Girod (guitar, banjo, vocals), Cyril Yeterian (melodeon, guitar, vocals) and Xavier Bray (drums and percussions) hail from the shores of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland. Out of sheer passion for the music of Louisiana, Mama Rosin fuse the French Cajun and Zydeco migrant music with blues, swamp pop, rock and roll and add Afro-Caribbean rhythms and voodoo mythology.

Also performing at Purbeck Folk Festival are BBC Folk Award winners Show Of Hands, Karine Polwart, two young ceilidh bands and upwards of 50 bands across three stages.

Purbeck Folk Festival takes place in the idyllic setting of Wilkswood Farm from August 23-25.

Camping is free with your weekend ticket. Early bird tickets (at £80 adults) are available from Ticket South: ticketsouth.co.uk or by phone on 023 80711818.