On the eve of her arrival at WOMAD – and of her 80th birthday – Brazilian force of nature Dona Onete talks to The 13th Floor about love, life and the story that drives her sensual, soulful lyrics.
Two critically acclaimed and exciting artists have been secured for WOMAD New Zealand 2018.
Her father is Brazilian musical legend Joao Gilberto, now Bebel Gilberto is making her own brand of bossa nova music and bringing it to the world…including New Zealand.
Here’s another interview with one of the international artists performing at WOMAD this weekend. The 13th Floor’s Tim Gruar talks to members of South Korean drum ensemble Tago who give him a demonstration of a few of their traditional instruments.
The Soil are a three-person vocal group from Soweto, South Africa and are making their New Zealand performing debut at this year’s WOMAD Festival. Before heading down to New Plymouth, the trio, Buhlebendalo “Soil Sister” Mda, Ntsika “Fana-tastic” Ngxanga, Luphindo “Master P” Ngxanga, stopped by the 13th Floor studios to perform three songs and talk to […]
One of the great pleasures of going to a world music festival such as WOMAD 2017 at New Plymouth is the opportunity to discover music and musicians that you never knew existed. As part of our ongoing series, here are five acts that we’ve unearthed from around the globe, who are coming to this year’s […]
This is the second in our series on upcoming artists performing at WOMAD 2017. This time, it’s BAYNK, aka Jock Nowell-Usticke, the Kiwi university student who chucked up a song up on SoundCloud back in early 2015 while travelling around Europe and scored himself an appearance at a major local music festival (St Jerome’s Laneway), […]
Over the next couple of months 13th Floor will be running a series of articles and interviews about key artists and bands coming to WOMAD 2017 (New Plymouth, March 17-19). The Taranaki’s based world music festival is now in its 11th year, a 3-day celebration of musical and cultural diversity on every level. As always, […]
John Grant releases his new album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure on Friday, October 9th. The American musician now calls Iceland his home, but travelled back to Texas to record with producer John Congleton. He also got a bit of help from Tracey Thorn, Amanda Palmer and former Siouxie & The Banshees drummer Budgie. Grant will […]