Sun 29th July 2012 - This event has already happened

Venue Info

Region: South West
Address: Malmesbury, SN16 9DG
Starts: 12:00 - 02:00
Price: £0 - £135
Event Url: http://www.womad.co.uk/

Music From

Continents: Global
Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, Senegal, India, Australia, France, Japan, Russian Federation, Mali, Cuba, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, New Zealand, Israel

Artist's / Dj's

Damien Dempsey, Chet Nuneta, Lions Of Africa, Omar Pene, The Barons Of Tang, The Manganiyar Seduction By Roysten Abel, Pine Leaf Boys, Balkan Alien Sound, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club ® Featuring Omara Portuondo, Boubacar Traoré

Genres

Balkan, Dance Hall, Indian, Maloya, Cajun, Blues, Russian Folk, Desert-Blues, Rumba

Type

Performance: Live, DJ
All Seated Event: No

Description

WOMAD- The Worlds Festival.

Reasons to go to WOMAD
#1- To listen to the best music you have NEVER heard before.
#2- Tour the World in 80 hours.
#3- Take the kids for FREE (somewhere they can run free)
#4- To stay in 5 star luxury in a field and fall asleep under the stars.
 

After 17 years of WOMAD Rivermead in Reading we moved to the historic grounds of Lord Suffolk's Charlton Park in Wiltshire. The move has proved more than successful. The lay of the land allows those explorers a chance to explore, shade for relaxing and dozing, space to roam and potter, art installations to blossom, secret stages to pop up.
International music resonates throughout the grounds, bounces off trees in the Arboretum, whirls through the green arena and dashes across acres of beautiful grass land which becomes the camping grounds during the last weekend in July. It is truly a unique event and we suggest you come along and experience the beauty for yourself.
In the summer WOMAD signed a further 5 year contract with Lord Suffolk, so the festival will stay nestled in these grounds for years to come.