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Day 4, and after the previous three wonderful days, there was a sense of relief entering the final day, as the constant roving from stage to stage to get the shots had taken a bit of a collective toll on my lower body. However, in the name of my art, I push through the discomfort …

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I started out on Day 3 with the intention of visiting a couple of the workshops that some of the artists do throughout the festival. My first port of call was to see Indigenous artist, Richard J Frankland, and I then followed up by seeing Bab L’ Bluz after having caught Julian Belbachir play a …

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Day 2 was the first of the full days, beginning at noon. I took the chance to see Justin Adams & Mauro Durante early on in the day doing a music workshop, explaining how and why they made the music that they do. I was soon to go on to realise what an influential figure …

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This was my first time attending the WOMADelaide festival, a celebration of world music held on the traditional lands of the Kaurna People. WOMADelaide – World Of Music Arts & Dance – is an iconic open-air festival celebrating cultural discovery in the heart of Adelaide’s stunning Botanic Park, having been held annually since 1992. To …

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Mistletone proudly present, for their very first appearances in Australia, Niger’s Mdou Moctar, with the full band performing across a number of dates in March 2023. A self-taught Tuareg guitar prodigy, Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and contemporary rock music by melding Eddie Van Halen-like pyrotechnics and guitar shredding, field recordings, drums rhythms, …

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WOMADelaide today announced a further 30 artists for its 10-13 March 2023 festival in Adelaide’s Botanic Park.  Spanning Korean folk to Scottish rock, Americana to Moroccan blues and everything in between, the artists represent the best music, arts and dance from around the world and include Senegalese headliner Youssou N’Dour & Le Super Etoile de …

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The internationally acclaimed, genre-defying British group Florence + The Machine and Grammy Award-winning US indie-folk band Bon Iver will make their WOMADelaide debut at the 2023 festival, which will see the welcome return of international artists, together with the breath-taking aerial spectacular, Place des Anges, by French company Gratte Ciel, from 10-13 March in Adelaide’s …

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