The Latest Breaking News from WOMAD

‘We eat and drink risk’: higher costs bring curtain down on more UK music festivals

Plans for new event at the Secret Garden Party site and Womad Glasgow are dashed, but others remain optimistic

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13

World-renowned music festival cancels Scottish edition weeks before event

THE first-ever edition of a new international music festival in Scotland has been cancelled

The National (Scotland) · Jun 2

Womadelaide 2026: Grace Jones embraces the compulsion for dancing in the dark times

No matter the music, no matter the mood, the festival crowd moved and moved – in a celebration embodied by the liberated, messy and sexual stylings of the 77-year-old headliner

The Guardian - AU · Mar 10

I’ll never be a true hippie parent, but I can learn a lot from summer festival-goers

While I couldn’t get out of mum mode at Glastonbury, it reminded me all children need to go feral now and again, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023

WOMADelaide cops flak over 'ridiculous' toilet queues, but director hails 'most successful' event

Some world music fans have labelled this year's WOMADelaide festival as "unsafe" with long queues for toilets, a lack of food and water and allegations sex acts were performed in public.

ABC News · Mar 13, 2023

Womad festival returns in style

In 1982, the first Womad music festival was held in Shepton Mallet, UK. The organisation, which stands for World Of Music Arts And Dance, was set up in 1980 by English rock star Peter Gabriel (Genesis), Thomas Brooman, Bob Hooton, Mark Kidel, Stephen Pritchard, Martin Elbourne and Jonathan Arthur.

Bangkok Post · Aug 29, 2022