On July 29, 2022, iconic music festival WOMAD and acclaimed world music label Real World Records will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first WOMAD festival with a double album titled Live at WOMAD 1982. The album includes previously unheard live performances by The Drummers of Burundi, The Musicians of the Nile, Salsa de Hoy, Peter Gabriel, The Chieftains, Echo and the Bunnymen, Simple Minds, Robert Fripp, The Beat, and many more.
“Our dream was not to sprinkle world music around a rock festival, but to prove that these great artists could be headliners in their own right,” says Peter Gabriel. “We wanted to show that wherever you were born, whatever color or language, whatever religious or sexual persuasion, powerful passionate and joyful work would have a warm welcome in WOMAD.”
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