WOMAD – Brooklands New Plymouth, 17-19 March 2023: Concert Review Part Two
WOMAD 2023 and the final day of the world music, art and dance celebration continues the love fest, and ends in the realm of the Gods.
WOMAD 2023 and the final day of the world music, art and dance celebration continues the love fest, and ends in the realm of the Gods.
WOMAD – the World of Music, Art and Dance is celebrating it is twentieth year in New Plymouth. The music of the last one and a half days has been nothing short of brilliant. Womad has been in hiatus since 2020, following the Covid panic.
WOMAD returns delivering world-class performers from Aotearoa, for the award-winning three-day festival.
WOMAD, the world’s festival, is delighted that following New Plymouth District Council’s announcement of a host city agreement with WOMAD International, New Zealand’s premier international festival will return to its home of the last 18 years in the stunning Brooklands Park in Taranaki in 2022. The festival dates of March 18-20 have been confirmed.
WOMAD. It was the last big event until who knows when? Rev Orange Peel reminisces for us.
WOMAD 2020 will feature close to 100 hours of music, dance and voices across eight stages. The the full stage schedule has been announced. Full details here.
In what has become a welcome pre-Christmas tradition, WOMAD New Zealand has today announced the 2020 festival Day Schedule. The full stage schedule will be released in January 2020, including the World Of Words, Taste The World, STEAM Lab and on-site performance schedules.
Joyful. Sad. Grateful. Awestruck. A mash-up of emotions… that was WOMAD for me – my first ever, and what a year to be there. On the musical front, an astounding line-up of musical talent. From an almost 80-year-old Amazonian queen, to a 23-year-old Kiwi soul singer with the voice of a man twice his age […]
Maria Hoyle has been reporting to us from WOMAD. On Day 2 she spoke with Dutch band, My Baby.
It was a terrible and dark thing, to be at a music festival celebrating multi-culturalism and to hear of the heartbreaking events at two mosques in Christchurch; the massacre of all that WOMAD stands for. But if ever there was a powerful antidote to despair, a reminder that love and music can unite us across […]