The legendary soul singer, who last performed at a UK festival at Glastonbury back in 2010, will join New Order at the top of the bill when he closes the event on Sept 9, with the Friday night headlining act still to be confirmed.

Organiser Rob Da Bank revealed he was delighted that Wonder had agreed to play:

“What can I say? What a day! I see part of my job at Bestival as giving you acts you may never have seen or will get the chance to see again… So I’m hoping you feel as happy as I do as we announce the legendary Stevie Wonder as Sunday night headliner!

“A winner of 25 Grammy Awards, the most ever for a solo artist, this man’s music has always been part of the da Bank home listening experience and also a favourite at our Sunday Best and Bestival parties and this is a very rare chance to see a legend in action. See you there!”

Other artists appearing at the event, which takes place at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, include Emeli Sande, Rizzle Kicks, Friendly Fires, The XX and Sigur Ros. 

It means you'll be able to see the likes of Pearl Jam and Bruce Springsteen up close and personal, who are set to headline the festival in June.

The TV channel will also show six hours worth of coverage from the festival a day. Sky Arts channel director James Hunt said in a statement:

"The Isle Of Wight Festival is the most dynamic and exciting festival in the UK: we knew that with this year's lineup, Sky Arts coverage had to be bigger, better and bolder than ever before. Broadcasting the festival live for six hours a day not only confirms Sky Arts as the destination for great music coverage, with 3D it also brings viewers closer to the real-life festival experience."

'The Falcons' singer revealed:

"This has been an amazing year for me and my band... thanks so much for keeping us on stage."

He later added: "I'm gonna cry," before joking: "You horrible people, you're going to make me cry!"

Wolf played songs from his most recent album 'Lupercalia', as well as a few old favourites during his set, and entertained the audience by dancing on top of the DJ booth during 'Together' and greeting the front row during 'The City'. 

He also dedicated 'The Falcons' to anyone who had been made redundant during the year, saying: "It's a song about looking up, about chinning up."

Patrick Wolf's Bestival setlist was as follows:

• Come Closer
• House
• William
• Time of My Life
• The Libertine
• Accident and Emergency
• Bermondsey Street
• The Falcons
• Together
• The Magic Position
• The City

Watch Patrick Wolf in a recent interview at this year's Manchester Pride, below:

“…saviours of rock’n’roll…” – The Guardian

 “…the year’s most brilliantly brash young upstarts…” – The Fly

“…seriously impressive…” – The Sun

 “Huge songs with personality to match – they’re going to be big, Brother.” – News Of The World

 “Brother are as sharp as their songs are direct…” - The New York Times

‘New Years Day’ is the new single from BROTHER, taken from their upcoming Stephen Street produced album 'Famous First Words', which is due for release on 1st August 2011.

The band returned from their first tour of the West Coast, USA recently. On their way home they dropped in to perform to millions of American viewers on the ‘Late Show with David Letterman’ on CBS in New York. They will return in July to perform on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on ABC in LA before doing an East coast tour.

Having just returned home from an extensive tour of the UK (which inclued their biggest show to date at London’s Heaven),  Brother will be performing at Ibiza Rocks, Mallorca Rocks, Rockness and Isle of Wight festivals in June. They’ll also be joining their hero Morrissey on a run of dates leading up to what is set to be a huge performance on The Other Stage at Glastonbury.

Japan’s biggest rock magazine Rockin’On will run a cover feature on BROTHER this month (June), which preceeds their debut performance in the country at Summersonic Festival in Tokyo in August and a 5-date tour.

BROTHER, with their classic British rock’n’roll sound and swaggering confidence, are quickly creeping into the nation’s consciouness with radio support from Zane Lowe and Fearne Cotton at Radio 1, and XFM London and Manchester, features in NME, Q, The Guardian, Sunday Times, The Sun, The Fly and more, and TV appearances on Soccer AM on Sky, and CNTRL TV and Live at Abbey Road on Channel 4.

See Brother on tour at the following dates:

June

• Sat 4th     Hässleholm, Sweden - Siesta! Festival
• Tue 7th    Mallorca Rocks
• Wed 8th  Ibiza Rocks
• Fri 10th    Rockness Festival
• Sun 12th  Isle of Wight Festival
• Fri 17th    Germany Southside Festival
• Sat 18th   Germany Hurricane
• Mon 20th Dunfermline Alhambra Theatre
• Tue 21st  Hawick City Hall
• Fri 24th    Glastonbury  Other Stage
• Sat 25th  Glastonbury  Oxlyers Stage
• Thu 30th  Plymouth Plymouth Pavilions

July

• Sat 2nd     Hop Farm Festival
• Sun 10th  Oxegen Festival

Further festival dates tba.

Tickets are available now at the band’s website www.acidlove.net

Watch the accompnying video here: 

In addition to Isle of Wight and Bestival, Sky Arts will also broadcast exclusive coverage of 10 more of the UK's most popular and diverse music festivals on Sky's TV channel Sky Arts.

In becoming the leading broadcast partners to the UK's music festivals, this summer Sky Arts is partnering with the following Isle of Wight Festival, Download, Hard Rock Calling, Latitude, Lovebox, High Voltage, Cambridge Folk Festival, Camp Bestival, Sonisphere, Cropredy, Rewind and Bestival.

Today's announcement marks the channel's biggest commitment yet to live music and music festivals.

John Cassy, Channel Director of Sky Arts and Sky 3D commented: 'The festivals we have chosen to partner attract some of the biggest and most exciting acts.  We are particularly excited about Bestival and the Isle of Wight festivals, where we'll break new ground by bringing them to the life through 3D.  Broadcasting live in 3D is an amazing opportunity to bring viewers closer than ever to the real festival experience."

Isle of Wight Festival begins the coverage on 10 June. Sky 3D will take 2 hours of live 3D coverage each day from the biggest acts of the festival, which include Kings of Leon, Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Plan B and Pulp. Sky Arts 1 will broadcast 2 hours of highlights from across the festival.

Bestival which runs from the 8-11 September will also be covered live and in 3D and will round off the channel's summer of music. The festival's headline acts include The Cure, Pendulum, Brian Wilson, Primal Scream and Robyn.

The other ten festivals will be broadcast throughout the summer on Sky Arts 1 HD.  

In recent years, Sky Arts has cemented its reputation for coverage of contemporary music. Last year it dramatically increased its coverage of live music and commissioned a fourth series of its flagship music programme Songbook. This season features interviews and performance from songwriting legends including Don McLean, Diane Warren and Dave Stewart.

Tom Jones has announced that he will be topping the bill at the legendary Big Top on the second day of next year’s Isle Of Wight festival.

The festival – which runs from June 10-12, 2011 – already features headlining appearances by Kasabian, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon and recently reunited Pulp.

Festival promoter John Giddings said of the Welsh singer: "What can I say that hasn't been said about this man and his voice? We are so proud that he has chosen to play our Festival next summer. It will be incredible.”

Watch Tom Jones performing at Glastonbury 2009, below: