The Mission Folk Music Festival has announced additional artists to its lineup for this year’s event.

The festival takes place July 24 to 26 at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission.

Added to the roster, from Switzerland, is an alpenhorn-playing, yodeling and overtone singing duo known as Stimmhorn.

Christian Zehnder and Balthasar Streiff combine a theatrical sensibility and contemporary attitude to take Swiss musical traditions on a wild and adventurous ride.

Their instrumentation, in addition to the alpenhorn, includes double alpenhorn, wippcordion, bandoneon, goat horn and a range of other eclectic and rare instruments.

Mexican reggae favourite Rastrillos also joins the lineup, delivering a latino-reggae vibe.

B.C. world music multi-instrumentalists Boris Sichon and Adham Shaikh have also been added.

There are now 22 artists and groups on the festival lineup.

The additions join already-announced artists such as Tom Paxton, one of folk music’s most iconic and enduring voices; the harmonic vocals of Sardinia’s Tenores di Neoneli; the rich voice and mystical ballads of the Faroe Islands’ Eivør; the high-energy jigs and reels of Quebec’s Les Tireux d’Roches; Canada’s folk sweetheart Connie Kaldor; and the Afro-Cuban jazz of Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana.

“After more than two decades of programming the festival, I still find that each year is more surprising than the last,” said artistic director Francis Xavier Edwards.

“This year’s festival, in particular, is remarkable to me because it is full of both new and old faces in a very rich roster of diversity. The artists and the music that are out there in the world never ceases to astonish. That is what this festival is all about for me – musical amazement.”

For ticket details and other information, visit missionfolkmusicfestival.ca.

Weekend passes only are available at: Shoppers Drug Mart in Mission, and Tom Lee Music and House of James in Abbotsford.

The festival offers three evenings of showcase main-stage concerts. Three daytime stages run concurrently Saturday and Sunday beginning at noon.

Other on-site features include the Folk Art and Import Market, a CD tent, the Festival Store selling festival souvenirs, a variety of food vendors, and a shaded licensed area, the Festival Bistro, with a main-stage view.