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World of Music, Arts and Dance

WOMAD (/ˈwˌmæd/ WOH-mad; World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international arts festival. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and dance.

"Womad" redirects here. For the South Korean website, see WOMAD (website).

Ethos[edit]

From the outset, the WOMAD name has reflected the festival's idea; to be embracing but non-definitive, inspiring and outward looking; and more than anything, enthusiastic about a world that has no boundaries in its ability to communicate through music and movement.[10]

Workshops. Adult workshops are taken by the musicians and will involve dance, musical instruments and discussions. Children's workshops involve painting, circus skills, graffiti, modelling, story telling and more.

Taste The World. Musicians cook a choice of dish from their home country in front of an audience.

Global Market. The Global Market sells international food and wares.

WOMAD has always presented music that they felt to be of excellence, passion and individuality, regardless of musical genre or geographical origin. WOMAD encourages collaboration amongst the artists they invite to perform. The first WOMAD Festival in 1982 had Echo and the Bunnymen join forces with the Drummers of Burundi, and WOMAD Abu Dhabi 2010, saw a collaboration between Tinariwen, TV on the Radio members Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe, Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan (music producer, author), and the French Algerian Mehdi from Speed Caravan.

A Certain Ratio

Abel Selaocoe

Adg7

Alban Claudin

(Peter Gabriel performed on the encore with her)

Angelique Kidjo

B.Dance

Bab'bluz

Barmer Boys

Bess Atwell

Cimafunk

Dizraeli

DJ Alikat

DJ and Fizzy Gillespie

Chris Tofu

DJ

Sacha Dieu

and The Kuwaits

Dudu Tassa

and Kefaya

Elaha Soroor

Electric Jalaba

Fantastic Negrito

Father of Mylo

Fatoumata Diawara

Fulu Miziki Kollectiv

Future Shape of Sound

& Family

Gilberto Gil

Gonne Choi

(cancelled just prior to the festival)

Greentea Peng

Grupo Lokito

Guo Yue & Joji Hirota & members of the London Drummers

Taiko

Gwenifer Raymond

Hatis Noit

Hollie Cook

Isona job artgheh

Jack Baldus

& The Minyanta Band

Jali Bakary Konteh

Joe Armon-Jones

Joseph Tawadros

Johanna Juhola Reaktori

JSSO Project

Kae Tempest

Kampire

Kanda Bongo Man

Khiyo

(cancelled during the festival)

King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys

Lazy Habits

Les Amazones d'Afrique

Lianne La Havas

Mariachi Las Adelitas

Mazaher

Minyo Crusaders

(DJ şet)

Mister Tooley

Mr Bruce

(DJ set)

Nabiyah Iqbal

Nihiloxica

(also hosted a Q&A the day prior)

Nitin Sawhney

Nubiyan Twist

Olcay Bayir

Onipa

(introduced on stage by Peter Gabriel)

Osibisa

Paolo Tossio

Project Smok

Ram

Ramy Essam

Said Muti

Sam Amidon

Sarathy Korwar

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Seed

Sona Jobarteh

Son Rompe Pera

Soul Professor

Stornoway

& The Furious Five (cancelled prior to the festival)

Sugarhill Gang

Taraf De Caliu

The Bandit

The Dhol Foundation

The Flaming Lips

The Fontanas

(cancelled last minute and were replaced by a 2nd performance by Mr. Bruce)

The Garifuna Collective

The Hempolics

With Amaraterra

The Malmesbury Project

The

Mauskovic Dance Band

The Selecter

Too Many T's

Vision Collective

Voka Gentle

Yazz Ahmed

Zed Bias

Adelaide, South Australia (bi-annually from 1992 to not interfere with the then bi-annual Adelaide festival and then annually from 2004 due to its popularity and collaboration with the Adelaide Festival, no camping, capacity 30,000 daily, four days Fri-Mon mid March [originally three days until 2010]).[22]

WOMADelaide

- The 2021 event was one of the first of its kind due to Australia's unique lockdown rules and a smaller event of 6000 capacity was held in its place.


- WOMAD New Zealand 2021 was cancelled in late 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic complications; because of New Zealand's social distancing regulations during the emergence of COVID, its local organizing committee argued that the financial risk was too high if restrictions were to potentially be reinstated in close proximity to the event.[24][25] - The event did also not go ahead in 2022 for the same reasons, but did recommence in 2023. The 2020 event was one of the last festivals in the world to run just prior to the worldwide lockdowns were imposed.


- The 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to the pandemic.


- The 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to the pandemic.

WOMAD USA (recordings from this event were released on CD)

WOMAD Finland

WOMAD Portugal

WOMAD South Africa

WOMAD Athens

WOMAD Austria

WOMAD Germany

WOMAD Japan

WOMAD Canada

WOMAD Denmark

WOMAD Russia

WOMAD Turkey

WOMAD Italy

WOMAD Singapore (recordings from these events were released on CD)

WOMAD at the Venice Carnival (recordings from this event were released on CD)

WOMAD Sicily, , Italy[27]

Sicily

WOMAD Abu Dhabi, , UAE[28]

Abu Dhabi

WOMAD Mexico was planned and stalled due to the pandemic

WOMAD Gran Taranjal, Fuerteventura 2014 & 2015

WOMAD Prague, 2000

[29]

Radio WOMAD[edit]

Based on Charlton Park every year since the second year (2008) the UK festival moved there, the official festival radio station is broadcast on a temporary FM licence (usually on 87.7FM) just prior to the festival opening its gates to the public and broadcasts 24 hours a day every day until late Monday after the public gates have closed. Each year the station hosts several exclusive live sessions and interviews from artists playing at the festival across the weekend. The FM signal reaches about ten miles away from the festival site.


During the forced cancellations of the festival in 2020 and 2021 the radio station was set up to broadcast remotely from several of the presenter's homes across the UK and was broadcast live via Mixcloud where listeners could also interact with other listeners and the presenters for the "WOMAD at home" events. The shows showcased several highlights of previous live sessions from their archives. There was also a special live x-mas show in 2021 and two special live announcement shows in early 2022, to tie in with the line-up announcement from the festival, broadcast from station manager Steve Satan's kitchen.

Real World Records

Official WOMAD website

Official WOMADelaide website

Official WOMAD New Zealand website

Archived 2010-10-27 at the Wayback Machine

Official WOMAD Abu Dhabi website