In just one week, the world's greatest celebration of diverse world music gets underway, across the border in Wiltshire.

The WOMAD - World of Music and Dance - festival is in many ways the perfect weekend, offering great music from some of the globe's finest artists, and a mellow easy-going vibe which has to be experienced to be believed.

This year's line-up is impressive, featuring big international stars and undiscovered gems. Unmissable are Senegal's Orchestra Baobab, Mali's Toumani Diabaté, Egyptian percussionists the Bedouin Jerry Can Band, Israel's Mor Karbasi, Algeria's Rachid Taha, Brazil's Monobloco, and, from Cambodia, Dengue Fever.

And it's not all roots world music, with drum and bass by Sao Paulo's DJ Marky and Bristol's Roni Size Reprazent, and reggae by Jamaican pioneer Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

Add to that sets by Canadian songbird Martha Wainwright; Shane McGowan, of the Pogues; and our very own Squeeze and Transglobal Underground.

But music is only one side of WOMAD.

It's also a place to eat your way around the world, enjoy some mighty fine beer, wines and cocktails, enjoy a massage, shop for interesting curios, join a workshop, and just hang out in beautiful surroundings.

WOMAD takes place from next Friday to Sunday at Charlton Park, Malmesbury. Tickets are £125 for the weekend (£100 concs).

Go to www.WOMADshop.com or call 0845 146 1735 (Mon-Fri from 10am-3pm).

For more on this week's WOMAD, go to oxfordmail.co.uk and follow the links to music news.

The guide has teamed up with WOMAD to offer one lucky reader a pair of tickets to the festival.

For a chance to win, answer the following question: From which country does DJ Marky hail?

Send your answers, with full name, address and contact number, to tim.hughes@oxfordmail.co.uk to arrive by midnight on Sunday. Usual rules apply. The Editor's decision is final.