AMONG the artists featured on the Lakefest line-up are American sensations Nahko and Medicine for The People, who take a Sunday slot at the festival, which this year relocates to Eastnor Castle's Deer Park.

The band this year released a new album, Hoka, recorded with Grammy Award-winning producer Ted Hutt and a very personal record, examing Nahko’s roots and the tragic circumstances that surround his birth.

He was adopted as a baby by a middle class, white American family in the north-west of the country and grew up playing piano at a young age - which is where he learned to respect music.

Inspired by Americana musicians and storytellers like Conor Oberst and Bob Dylan, Nahko left home as a teenager in search of adventure and self-discovery. Armed with stories, a guitar, and a fierce set of ideals, he set out to bridge the cultural gaps dividing his own life.

It was then he found his mother on the Internet, met her, and began to learn the truth about this backstory and his true ethnicity of Puerto Rican, Native American (Apache) and Filipino descent. His self-branded ‘real talk music’ is the result of the personal journey of healing and acceptance that followed.

Because his mother was forced into human trafficking, Nahko and his mother are advocates for the anti-trafficking movement of indigenous men and women. A few years later, Nahko learned that his biological father had been murdered in 1994. The new single ‘San Quentin’ is the result of Nahko visiting the man responsible for murdering his father - and forgiving him.

“I didn’t really know what I was going to say to him,” Nahko explains. "I went there to forgive this man and in forgiving him, I freed myself. It only hurts yourself to hang on to hate. Forgiveness empowers you to create change. I believe everything happens for a reason, good and bad. People are put in your life for a reason, and you need to turn that pain into something positive to make the world a better place.

"Over the last three years," explains Nahko. "My style of writing and my intentions with how I put things together has evolved a lot."

Another single-to-be is the acoustic epic ‘Tus Pies (Your Feet)’, which was inspired in part by Chilean poet and politician Pablo Neruda. "It's about friendship and being an anchor for someone."

The title of the album, he explains, is a Lakota word, a call to action. "It's what Crazy Horse would say when he went into battle. My call is to put action to the words that I speak and the lyrics I sing. Not just to talk, but to do."

Also on the line-up for Lakefest, which runs from August 11 to August 14 in the former home of The Big Chill, the Deer Park at Eastnor Castle, are Primal Scream, We are Scientists, Newton Faulkner, Molotov Jukebox, The Coral, Starsailor and many more. For full line-up details and to book - day tickets are available for Friday, Saturday or Sunday, as well as weekend tickets - visit lakefest.co.uk