Port Eliot Festival has announced the latest additions to its line up with Saint Etienne, Bombino, Fránçois and the Atlas Mountains and Duke Garwood joining the bill for this year’s event.

Alternative dance act Saint Etienne released their debut, Foxbase Alpha, 26 years ago, and their gigs are marvellous dance pop celebrations, drawing on single after single.

Afro-pop influenced Fránçois and the Atlas Mountains’ new record, Solid Mirage, brings a political edge and grungier moments to the band’s beautifully-turned melodies and harmonies.

Bombino is a Tuareg desert-rock guitarist from Niger, whose innovative recent LP, Azel, pioneers a new style, which he calls Tuareggae and features the first-ever use of Western vocal harmonies in recorded Tuareg music.

Dark growling blues singer and guitarist Duke Garwood, who Seasick Steve calls "the most soul-acious man I know" has recently released a new record, Garden of Ashes, to great acclaim.

The full festival line-up jumps from music to books, food to fashion, science to swimming and comedy to a flower and fodder show.

It includes singer-songwriter Nick Lowe; Kate Stables’s acclaimed This Is The Kit; Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michèle Roberts; best-selling food writer and chef Gizzi Erskine; Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston’s cosmic combination A Love from Outer Space; lauded stand-up Tom Wrigglesworth; songwriting craftsman Chris Difford; Stephen Duffy-powered treasures The Lilac Time; Cornish restaurateur Nathan Outlaw; and multi award-winning writing sensation, Eimear McBride.

Port Eliot was the first UK festival to insist on serving high-quality food as standard throughout, and since 2003, the sheer range of talented chefs, growers and artists coming to the festival has grown hugely, this year including Aaron Bertelsen, Katy Davidson, and Russell Norman, with Thomasina Miers and Gizzi Erskine.

Port Eliot has its own half-paced atmosphere and everybody brings something special: a science lab, vodka bars, wellness enclosure above the maze; Cornish stories and culture, and genuinely unique gigs in the oldest church in Cornwall, along with historic rooms, kitchens and nooks in the oldest continually-inhabited home in the country becoming restaurants, tea rooms, exhibition galleries and picture palaces.

A massive programme of workshops, demonstrations and practical skills sessions includes late night astronomy, foraging for medicine, wild swimming, basecamp gourmet, business for bohemians, botanical illustration, headdress making, home herbal first aid, cider and cheese pairing, canoeing, archery and beekeeping.

This year, for the first time, the festival will have its own dedicated poetry stage. Curated by Luke Wright and Rosy Carrick, the stage will feature over thirty poets, reflecting the diversity of Britain’s contemporary poetry scene - including Salena Godden, Mike Garry, Ros Barber, Rob Auton, Hannah Silva and Hollie McNish. A full twenty-four hours of poetry over the weekend makes Port Eliot among the most significant homes for poetry of all UK festivals.

Port Eliot Festival runs from July 27 to 30 on the Port Eliot Estate at St Germans near Saltash.

Weekend, child, family and day tickets available, at the same prices as the previous three years, at porteliotfestival.com