(headline image: DakhaBrakha at Womadelaide 2024 – Photo by Chris Lambie) The Australian event is WOMAD’s longest partnership and its longest-running festival in the same…
For the traditional close of Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) in 2019, technical director Niall Macaulay pressed ‘Play’ on Sister Sledge hit ‘We Are Family’.…
Womadelaide 2020 was the last major event in Australia prior to pandemic lockdowns. In 2021, a series of seated evening concerts presented local acts at…
Jessie Lloyd Ailan Songs Project – Four Winds – Historical songs from the Torres Strait (2022) Composer and performer Jessie Lloyd is a passionate song-keeper…
March 11-14, 2022 – Adelaide, Australia The ever-wondrous global gathering in South Australia’s capital managed to be the last major Australian festival held pre-pandemic lockdowns…
WOMADELAIDE 2020, Adelaide, South Australia – March 6-9 Back on the sunny long weekend in March, jokes about the early onset of ‘The Virus’ seemed…
Garden Quartet – Garden Quartet (Bleemo Music, 2019) Australian audiences were reported to be “spellbound throughout” recent performances by Garden Quartet’s performance of music from…
There’s nothing unusual in an upcoming festival being announced as the ‘best ever’. In recent years, the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) has proved to…
When you think of Scotland, does the drone of bagpipes start playing in your mind? Does Hawaii spark strains of a ukulele-laced ‘Over The Rainbow’?…