The long-awaited new album The Great Bluegrass Swindle by The Pigs is finally here, and in celebration The Pigs will be heading down to Sydney's Notes Live to launch it for all you nutty fans out there.

One of the world's top ten music festivals revealed their first round of artists this week! The Port Fairy Folk Festival for 2012 will mark their 35th year, and have got a legendary line-up to celebrate.

So without further ado, the first round consists of:

International Artists
Abigail Washburn - USA
ahab - UK
April Verch & Band - Canada
Beoga - Ireland
Ben Sollee – USA
Chris While & Julie Matthews – UK
Eric Bibb & Staffan Astner – USA/Sweden