Nile Rodgers with CHIC, Ride, Tiga and Lianne La Havas Join Flow Festival Lineup

Exciting new line-up additions at Flow Festival include the first appearance by Grammy-winning composer, producer and famed guitarist Nile Rodgers together with the legendary CHIC in Finland.

Known for their string of 70s disco hits, Nile Rodgers and CHIC will play in Finland for the very first time this summer to coincide with their first album release in 25 years It's About Time. Over the years Rodgers has worked with a host of critically acclaimed artists such as David Bowie, Madonna, and more recently Daft Punk, Disclosure and Sam Smith.

Other announcements include Ride, the original influencers of the Shoegaze genre who have reunited for the first time in 20 years, the charismatic London soul singer-songwriter and award winning multi-instrumentalist Lianne La Havas whose exciting second album Blood will be released 31 July. Canadian DJ and record producer Tiga, known for his BBC Radio 6 Music show "My Name is Tiga", will take to the stage touring his first live show.

Flow Festival also adds several home-grown acts to its bill; K-X-P, one of the most potent and psychedelic forces in 21st century music delivering a unique mix of krautrock, industrial, disco and electronic, psych rock band Black Lizard who recently performed on Later with Jools Holland alongside releasing a new album, and LCMDF, whose single Fooled just held the top position in The Guardian's music chart.

Other additions include Yona, who continues to cut across genres on her fifth album Naivi, and Emma Salokoski, known for her empowering melodies with recent single Valoa yllä giving a taste of what her upcoming solo album will have on offer.

Other confirmed acts for the 2015 Flow Festival Helsinki include Alt-J (UK), Beck (US), Belle and Sebastian (UK), Florence + The Machine (UK), Diplo (US), Pet Shop Boys (UK), Flying Lotus (US), Years & Years (UK), Skepta (UK), Wiley (UK), Foxygen (US), Future Islands (US), Major Lazer (US), Seth Troxler (US), Róisín Murphy (IE), Run The Jewels (US), Todd Terje live (NO), The War on Drugs (US) and more.

Flow Festival's confirmed partners for 2015 are the main partner Lapin Kulta, media partners Basso, Clear Channel, Helsingin Sanomat / Nyt, and partners American Express, Bright, H&M, Paulig, Stop Teltat, University of Arts Helsinki and Yellow Tail.

The day splits are available on www.flowfestival.com/en/artists/.

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