For the third episode of our Musical Road to WOMEX, we travel not only in place but also in time:...
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For the second episode of our Musical Road to WOMEX, we go from Caracas to Berlin by way of a...
Gelareh Pour and Brian O’Dwyer build each show live, on the spot, from a kamancheh, a voice, and a drum...
The ruins of Pompeii, Buffalo mozzarella from Caserta, the switchback drop of the Amalfi Coast, a sfogliatella still warm from...
It is Monday morning, checkout time at Grand Hotel Viljandi, and a German festival goer with his wristband still on...
There is a certain tenor a WOMAD stalwart comes to expect: a practiced routine, a beaten track past well-known landmarks,...
Benga runs on interlocking guitars and a rhythm that does not let up, the sound that owned Kenyan pop for...
Ten years is a long time to leave a dancefloor waiting. Buraka Som Sistema have spent most of that decade...
Karate Boogaloo have been playing together since they were schoolboys, in the same Melbourne high school maths class, which is...
There is a historic town in southern Estonia, population 17000, that every July transforms into a global cultural hub. For...
In 1969 a young Zulu musician named Sipho Mchunu heard about a white teenager in Johannesburg who could play Zulu...
Event Preview: WOMAD 2026 @ Neston Park (Corsham, Wiltshire; Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th July 2026)
After a fallow year and seventeen summers at Charlton Park, WOMAD moves to Neston Park near Corsham in north Wiltshire,...
On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush tied up at Tilbury in Essex, carrying close to five hundred Caribbean migrants...
For one long Bank Holiday Friday, a stretch of east London turned unmistakably verde-ouro. Boa Nova Festival, the capital’s first...
The Estonian diatonic accordion (lõõtspill) has four rows of keys and can play only in major. Tarmo Noormaa studied it...
Olivier Araste does not travel light. Moving an eight-piece maloya ensemble from Réunion to the French mainland is its own...
Brazilian music has lived in London for years through Jazz Cafe residencies, samba schools in Notting Hill, baile funk nights...
Africa Oyé returns to Sefton Park on 20 and 21 June, and Liverpool gets it back after a fallow year...
Katariina Tirmaste was teaching at a traditional music camp in Estonia five years ago when one of her students, Kärt...
A Bakhshi or an Ashiq, in the old Iranian tradition, walks from village to village with a saz across his...
