Womadelaide
Womadelaide 2024: global music festival finds the love amid 40C heat and calls to boycott
Opening on a 37C night in the wake of controversy, electrifying performers and enthusiastic crowds transcended an otherwise fraught event
Dee Jefferson
12, Mar, 2024 @3:05 AM
Womadelaide 2023: blockbuster headliners and record crowds drive a euphoric long weekend
Florence and the Machine, Bon Iver, Sampa the Great and a blizzard of feathers headline a festival striving to recapture its pre-pandemic glory
Walter Marsh
14, Mar, 2023 @1:07 AM
Womadelaide’s unforgettable moments: ‘They didn’t know what to expect’
From an all-star train ride across the Nullarbor to an unexpected cricket plague, this year’s festival marks 30 years of border-defying music and art
Walter Marsh
12, Mar, 2022 @7:00 PM
Womadelaide 2021: Archie Roach bids farewell in a 'festival' forced to redefine itself
The annual celebration of world music adapts to Covid with an exclusively domestic program featuring Sarah Blasko, Lior and Midnight Oil
Walter Marsh
06, Mar, 2021 @12:57 AM
Womadelaide 2020: uplifting, political and expansive festival offers hope amid the doom
With Mavis Staples, Aldous Harding and Spinifex Gum in the lineup, the world music festival offered plenty of reasons to look up from our phones – and towards each other
Janine Israel
10, Mar, 2020 @4:01 AM
Womadelaide 2019: Christine and the Queens dazzles amid smorgasbord of sound
More than 75 acts performed over four packed days in a world music festival that continues to push boundaries and open hearts
Janine Israel
12, Mar, 2019 @12:17 AM
Womadelaide 2018: all singing, all dancing festival of joy
Crowds delight in extraordinary range of talent, colour and atmosphere in botanic gardens
Janine Israel
13, Mar, 2018 @2:07 AM
Dustyesky's Russian folk songs and accent comedy – it shouldn't work, but it does
Joke act it may be, but there’s something weirdly great about a bunch of Byron shire lads singing in Russian at Womadelaide
Andrew P Street
11, Mar, 2018 @1:41 AM
Baker Boy rising: from Arnhem Land to sharing a stage with Dizzee Rascal
Trilingual hip-hop artist and one-time member of Indigenous dance troupe Djuki Mala has his sights on being the next Drake
Janine Israel
29, Dec, 2017 @9:48 PM
Womadelaide 2017: politics rages through Australia's most diverse and surprising festival
In its 25th year, the world music festival took estimated crowds of 90,000 on a journey of discovery across four days
Janine Israel
14, Mar, 2017 @3:58 AM
Music to our ears: sustainability headlines Womadelaide festival
From encouraging bike riding and compostable plates to better recycling, organisers have diverted 98% of waste from landfill – and they want to do more
Max Opray
13, Mar, 2017 @10:47 PM
The Manganiyar Classroom: Indian children bring endangered music to Australia
A chorus of village boys celebrate their musical heritage in a joyous production that challenges the rigid modern education system that threatens their traditions
Stephanie Convery
10, Mar, 2017 @1:30 AM
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