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Headlining Ragamuffin 2010 is WYCLEF JEAN the Grammy winning artist who has sold over 30 million records and toured the world, with Lauryn Hill and The Fugees. As a solo artist he will be performing songs from his album, The Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant which features everyone from Lil Wayne, Akon, Sizzla, to Serj Tankian, Norah Jones and Paul Simon (for the single Fast Car, whose video was made with the assistance of video game Burnout Paradise and whose remix features NZ’s very own Scribe!). Since his success with Shakira on Hips Don’t Lie Wyclef has embarked on a new chapter in his ever-evolving career. His talents as a producer and collaborator have led to a myriad of successful projects including recordings with Bono (New Day), writing and producing Carlos Santana's Supernatural, which won a Grammy for Album of the Year, and Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love. His soon to be released album Music Theory promises to be the best yet and his live performance is a not to be missed opportunity.

The ska classic Oh Carolina introduced SHAGGY to the world and the steady dub rhythm of the platinum selling Boombastic and hits like It Wasn’t Me and Angel from his Hotshot album, consolidated Shaggy as one of Jamaica’s finest musical exports – and that’s saying something! With 20 million album sales, 11 worldwide Top Ten singles, and a Grammy award for the Best Reggae Album, Shaggy celebrates his culture and being an ambassador for reggae music has always been the driving force in the heart of Jamaica’s only living Diamond-plus selling artist - RESPECT! .

UK Grammy Award winning reggae group STEEL PULSE have always remained close to their roots and their commitment to fight injustice and promote positive messages through spiritually uplifting music. Taking causes to heart, they filed a million dollar lawsuit against New York’s Taxi & Limousine Commission when their cabbies refused to pick up blacks and Rastafarians. To express their views, they released a single, Taxi Driver, from their 1991 Grammy-nominated Victims album and their State of Emergency album contributed Can't Stand It to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing movie soundtrack. In 1993, at the request of the Clinton Administration, Steel Pulse became the first reggae band ever to perform during the inaugural festivities at The White House.

Following the April 2009 release of his album Awake, which features Marley brothers Stephen and Damian, JULIAN MARLEY will be representing the music and message of the Marley family legacy. His soulful vocals, hypnotic beats and the roots-reggae sound with street energy hip-hop deliver a smooth combination that is very much his own.

On their first Raggamuffin tour SLY & ROBBIE, the modern masters of rhythm, will bring their own brand of reggae to the bill. The pair have contributed their distinctive rhythms to an estimated 200,000 recorded tracks, most of them Jamaican reggae. Early in their career they played together on Jimmy Cliff's Follow My Mind, Peter Tosh's Legalize It and a series of recordings by the group Black Uhuru amongst others. The Taxi label was founded by Sly in the late 70s and an early release, Gregory Isaacs' Soon Forward, topped Jamaican charts and solidified the duo's reputation as hit-makers. The acts they have since produced range from the unorthodox diva Grace Jones (Warm Leatherette and Nightclubbing albums), to the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Herbie Hancock, Joan Armatrading and more recently Madonna, Britney Spears and Paul McCartney!

International platinum selling artist SEAN KINGSTON will get the crowd grooving to his vibrant fusion of pop, doo-wop and reggae. Kingston’s Beautiful Girls single made history as one of the fastest ascents to number one of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The collection of pop-fueled songs that make up the newly released Tomorrow album will be sure to get the crowd moving.

KATCHAFIRE'S debut album Revival sold in excess of 45,000 copies in 2003 and the track Giddy Up was the the biggest selling single that year. Their most recent gold selling album Say What You're Thinking hit the American Reggae Billboard Top 10 and went to the number one in Hawaii. An eight-piece band of Maori descent from Hamilton, Katchafire, after touring the world, return to light up the Raggamuffin stage with tracks from their soon to be released new album plus all of our old favourites.

SOLA ROSA have kept good company on the road and in the studio, counting members of Fat Freddy’s Drop, Dimmer, Goldenhorse and Pluto amongst the ranks over the years, not to mention appropriating members of Che Fu, King Kapisi and Anika Moa’s bands and the talents of Nathan Haines and Spikey Tee (Jah Wobble, Bomb The Bass, Morcheeba). Their releases are critically acclaimed and labels include household names like Ministry of Sound. Joining Sola Rosa is IVA LAMKUM. A Wellingtonian of Samoan Chinese decent, Iva blends funk, soul, jazz and she joins Raggamuffin 2010 to perform the singles Turn Around and Get It Together alongside Sola Rosa.

Tony Fonoti, Spencer Fusimalohi and Carl Perkins from the legendary band HERBS will come together for the first time in over a decade. Along with HOUSE OF SHEM and under the bands original name PACIFIC HERBS, they will perform the best of Herbs songs. Founders of Pacific reggae in the 80s and 90s Herbs were considered Kings of the South Pacific. They had ten Top 20 singles and the hit French Letter came to express the country's anti-nuclear stance and along with No Nukes, Nuclear Waste and Light Of The Pacific did as much for the national psyche as they did for popular radio!

Fonoti and Fusimalohi wrote and performed several hits including French Letter, Dragons & Demons, Jah Son, Meteli, and the tribute to Bob Marley - Reggae's Doing Fine and Perkins wrote/co wrote the classics Long ago and Sensitive to a Smile.

SWEET & IRIE are a nine piece band founded in South Auckland and led by singer/songwriter Ed Ru, a Cook Islander who was born and raised in South Auckland. The bands intention was to create a new wave of reggae music from the South Pacific that is positive and uplifting and which they dubbed Sunshine Reggae. It worked! Their debut single Feels Like Magic (alongside Horsemen Family) was a top ten hit as was their debut album Localize It released by Dawn Raid earlier this year (2009).

Six hot International acts and four local acts. Don’t miss Raggamuffin 2010. As they say in Jamaica, it’s going to be irie!

Please note that there will be an option given on the purchase page to donate $1 per ticket to the Samoan relief fund (via the bank trust fund) and if you choose to do this, Andrew McManus Presents will match your $1 with another! Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the tsunami.