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Battling against the increasingly difficult task of providing festival goers with international music, this staple of the festival scene always finds new ways to charm and expand its horizons. WOMAD, or as reggae’s washed-up star Ken Boothe repeatedly called it last year during his Thursday night headline set, ‘The World’s...
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The sun is shining as people from all corners of the globe – including artists from six continents and fifty countries – come together for this year’s eclectic celebration of world music and dance culture. Families, friends and couples of all ages erect tents, blow up mattresses and boil water...
No need to book your travels for the summer, let them come to you! WOMAD music festival is one of the most exciting parties this year. Travelling the world through live music in four days, it is a unique chance to discover an eclectic range of the most talented acts...
This year, we only got a glimpse of the music bonanza offered by the Womad UK weekend. Our stay in Malmesbury consisted of a hit-and-run or a ‘toccata-and-fugue’, in-keeping with the musical topic, and saw us pay a visit to Charlton Park on the last day of the event. Still,...
As it turns out, no, she’s not “bad” at all! If you read that her name means “Inna is bad”, that was just a mistranslation copied and pasted by a host of websites and magazines, a fact that Inna Modja herself was keen to emphasize when we met her at...
“When you decide what you play you also decide what kind of life you lead.” Hélène Labarrière N’Diale is one of the most convincing collaborations between European and African musicians in recent years. In this instance Breton and Malian players have created a new music that resonates strongly with...
This is our complete gallery of WOMAD 2016. Click HERE to read the full review of the festival
Two weeks have passed since the 34th edition of WOMAD UK, which was also the tenth anniversary of the festival’s residency at Charlton Park. We have finally unpacked our bags, ordered our thoughts, edited tons of pictures and are ready to sum it all up… As WOMAD 2016 was unique and...
The Grit Orchestra was an unusual treat for the WOMAD 2016 audience on the Open Air stage on Friday afternoon. The story of how this orchestra came about is complicated. Grit (released on the Real World label in 2003) was the last album of the hugely influential Scottish musician Martyn...
They invited their fans singing “come see us play”. So we did it and enjoyed every single minute of it. Sidestepper brought their Afro-Colombian groove to WOMAD Festival and it was simply “chevere!” A few minutes later, we witnessed the brilliant 30-year reunion of Songhai – kora king Toumani Diabate with flamenco guitarists...
