The international arts festival WOMAD will celebrate its 35th anniversary at Wiltshire’s Charlton Park this summer, with reggae stalwarts Toots and the Maytals due to headline a packed line-up.

A brainchild of former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel, this year’s event – which stands for World of Music, Dance and Arts – will feature a cast of performers drawn from every corner of the globe. They will provide an eclectic selection of music between 27 and 30 July, at a festival which has spawned spin-offs across 30 countries.

The celebration of music will be accompanied by the opportunity to discover new flavours, with a global offering of food and even cookery listens for kids.

Since the first WOMAD, held in Shepton Mallet, Somerset in 1982, the festival has continued to grow. International stagings of the festival are slated for Santiago, Chile; Adelaide, Australia; Taranaki, New Zealand and Extremadura, Spain in 2018.

Toots and the Maytals will be the biggest names at this year’s UK festival, with the Jamaican ska band having performed since they were founded in 1962. They bring a catalogue of hit singles with them, including Funky Kingston, Do the Reggae – the first time the word ‘reggae’ was used in music – and Pressure Drop.

This year’s festival will salute the founder of afrobeat, Fela Kuti, on the 20th anniversary of his death. His former band Egypt 80 will perform with Seun Kuti, Fela’s youngest son, who took over leading the group when he was just 14. They will be joined by jazz-funk’s Roy Ayers, who produced the album Music of Many Colors with Fela in 1980.

Alongside them, myriad musical genres will be represented, many of them by La Dame Blanche alone: the Cuban singer, flautist and percussionist will bring a mix of hip hop, cumbia, dancehall and reggae. The difficult-to-say !!! – pronounced ‘chk chk chk’ – perform their own brand of dance-punk, while the singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey offers up a somewhat more reserved experience.

Bands seemingly come from all over the world, and the opportunities to discover new types of music are endless. The Amsterdam Klezmer Band from, naturally, The Netherlands, are seven-piece performing klezmer, a traditional Jewish musical form from Eastern European. Ariwo are a Cuban-Iranian collaborative who mix Cuban melodies with Iranian electronica.

The Italian DJ and producer Clap! Clap! has recently gained fans including Paul Simon, and Ifriqiyya Électrique, hailing from Tunisia, France and Italy, combine ritual North African Sufi music with European post-industrial sounds.

Of course, there are a few home-grown bands too. Hannah Peel & Tubular Brass have given Mike Oldfield’s classic album Tubular Bells an electronic reworking, while the House Gospel Choir set their gospel singing to classic house tunes.

To accompany the music, there will be an international assortment of food. Culinary offerings will include Mela Mela, bringing a taste of Brazil, Viguela’s Spanish dishes – including gazpacho, tortilla and arroz con leche – and a vegan tex mex selection from Las Cafeteras.