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WOMADelaide is one of Australia’s favourite outdoor festivals. Over four unforgettable days and nights, Adelaide’s glorious Botanic Park hosts remarkable performances by more than 400 of the world’s top traditional and contemporary musicians, artists, dancers and thinkers.

Music can express the beauty of a culture, and WOMADelaide offers a diverse range of music, arts and dance.

It has a beautiful, friendly vibe where families feel welcome. It is easy to see why festival lovers travel from all over the world to be a part of the magic.

This year promises to be even more spectacular. It will feature performances and workshops across seven stages, as well as street theatre and visual artists, the Electrolounge chill-out zone, Artists in Conversation and over 100 amazing food, retail and charity stalls.

Some of Australia’s most talented and electric performers will be joined by legendary international performers, such as South African jazz pianist and composer, Abdullah Ibrahim and North Romania’s famous Balkan brass band, Fanfare Ciocarlia.

The stellar line-up also features Irish super-star Sinéad O’Connor, and Youssou N’Dour, the artist who brought Senegalese music to the world.

The music will be complemented by the extraordinary luminarium Exxopolis, a dazzling maze created exclusively for WOMADelaide, as well as Artonik’s, The Colour of Time, which is an interactive homage to India’s traditional holi festival.

The festival sets itself apart with the Taste the World cooking program and the first ever fine-dining festival experience hosted by Adelaide restaurateur Jock Zonfrillo. WOMADelaide provides a range of gastronomic delights.

The Planet Talks sessions at Speakers Corner include 16 inspirational and stimulating speakers, discussing our sustainable relationship with the Planet.

Three of the world’s greatest environmental thinkers, communicators and activists will join WOMADelaide this year: living legend Marine Scientist Sylvia Earle, seed democracy activist Vandana Shiva and renowned US environment communicator Simran Sethi.

From humble beginnings in 1992, WOMADelaide’s Festival can now attract more than 86,000 attendees, and contributes more than $12 million to the South Australian economy.

WOMADelaide 2015 will be an outstanding festival and I encourage you to join friends, visitors and artists from around Australia and the globe, to celebrate these expressions of cultural diversity.

Jay Weatherill PREMIER

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Message from the Premier 5 Artists 8 Interview ~ Neneh Cherry 15 Interview ~ Toumani Diabate 23 Electrolounge 31 Botanic Park 32 Exxopolis 33 The Colour of Time 33 KidZone 34 Off Stage Delights 36

Chill ‘n’ Chat Stage Workshops The Planet Talks Workshops The Planet Talks Taste the World Artists in Conversation Interview ~ Dr Vandana Shiva

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Interview ~ Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club 46 Green & Global 47 Event Organisers 48 Timetable 49 Map 53

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Abdullah Ibrahim Quartet

Architects of Air – Exxopolis

ARTONIK – The Colour of Time

~ USA ~

~ UK ~

~ France / India ~

A true icon of African music, Abdullah Ibrahim forges a unique bridge between classical piano and jazz improvisation. His name is inextricably linked in jazz history beside Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry – all giants that this gifted pianist collaborated closely with. Born in Cape Town in 1934 as Adolphe Johannes Brand, he began performing in 1949 under the name Dollar Brand, and stayed in his native country until the early 1960s, accompanying Miriam Makeba and founding the first important African jazz band, the Jazz Epistles. However, international recognition also earned him distrust at home under the aparthied regime, so he left for Europe in 1962, and was discovered by Duke Ellington in 1965. After resettling in New York, he honed his improvisation skills within the avant-garde jazz scene but also set out on a spiritual path and converted to Islam in 1968, taking the name Abdullah Ibrahim. His landmark albums Echoes From Africa (1979), African Marketplace (1980) and Zimbabwe (1983) embraced both the essence of Africa and the flighty musical freedom of American jazz. Even at 80, he remains prolific, with his new album Mukashi embracing an intimacy and primal tone with staggering clarity.

Since 1992 Architects of Air’s luminaria have made over 600 exhibitions in 40 countries. From Berlin to Brooklyn, Hong Kong to Hawaii, Taipei to Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo to the Sydney Opera House, the monumental walk-in sculptures of Architects of Air have enchanted audiences around the world. A luminarium is a dazzling maze of winding paths and soaring domes where Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and Gothic cathedrals meld into an inspiring mix of design and engineering. The luminaria are designed by company founder, Alan Parkinson, who started experimenting with pneumatic sculptures in the I980s. They are made at the company base in Nottingham (UK) using a plastic produced solely for Architects of Air. Only four colours of plastic are used to generate a great diversity of subtle hues. Exxopolis is Architects of Air’s 20th luminarium completed in 2012, the 20th year of the company. The pièce de résistance of Exxopolis is the main dome, ‘the Cupola’, that the visitors discover after journeying the length of the luminarium. In that cavernous space they are surrounded by 10 scintillating ‘stained glass’ windows that rise over 7 metres off the ground. The windows’ design is based on Penrose tiling and are composed of over 1,000 pieces of plastic.

WOMADelaide 2015 will play host to Artonik’s The Colour of Time. The stunning open-air roving dance-theatre production draws from Indian culture in this reinvention of the traditional Holi festival, celebrated in India yearly. The festival goers joyfully throw Gulal powder (coloured powder) into the air celebrating unity, acceptance of diversity and friendship.

While its origins draw from Indian culture, The Colour of Time is a contemporary interpretation of the Holi festival and far removed from a Bollywood production.

Bystanders are encouraged to join the massive dance-theatre parade as the dancers and musicians move in a choreographed procession towards the explosive rainbow finale. Joining in, the audience are invited to unite by sharing colourful embraces and ‘free hugs’. The parade ends in an explosion of colour and joy, painting the sky with an almighty eruption of Gulal powder. Artonik’s work explores the observation of human behaviours in public areas, finding in this a high curiosity for common little things, those we consider too often passively as part of our every day. By taking these behaviours out of context they take on another dimension prompting a critical and poetic analysis of everyday life.

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Fri @ 8.00pm [aic]

Fri @ 4.30–7.00pm

Fri & Sat @ 6.10pm

Sat @ 5.00pm

Stage 3

Sat, Sun & Mon @ 11.00am–7.00pm

Sun & Mon @ 5.10pm

Mon @ 6.00pm

Stage 3

AoA will then be inflated and lit from the inside until midnight each night.

Starts by the Holy Cow chai tent.

Speakers Corner 6

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Astronomy Class featuring Srey Channthy

Balkan Beat Box

Bärra featuring Djalu Gurruwiwi & Gotye

~ Australia ~

~ Brooklyn / Tel Aviv ~

~ Australia ~

Astronomy Class present a unique musical style and dedication to creative exploration within the world of Australian hip hop.

Comprised of producers Chasm, Sir Robbo and vocalist Ozi Batla, the diverse background of the trio has produced albums displaying reggae, dub, psych and Khmer-pop tinged beats. At the cratedigging heart of the group sits Sir Robbo: a collector for 25 years and accomplished drummer who also co-founded legendary Sydney event Frigid (1996-07). Chasm, formerly an indie guitarist with Ukiyo-e, is now one of the leading hip hop producers in Australia, signed to Obese Records for two solo albums, multiple EPs and a stack of production credits to his name. Finally, Ozi Batla is one of the most revered MCs in Australia, fronting award winning hip hop act The Herd. Astronomy Class’ new album Mekong Delta Sunrise is a journey through Cambodian history and a tribute to the ecstatic Khmer pop music from the 1950s to the mid ‘70s. Album collaborator Srey Channthy is the spiritual successor to the legends of Cambodia’s golden age. With her internationally renowned band The Cambodian Space Project, she has been at the forefront of the Cambodian psychedelic rock revival movement. Srey has studied under one of the only great singers from the era to survive the Khmer Rouge genocide, and is constantly searching to document the vibrant musical, social and cultural history of Cambodia.

Out of Brooklyn via Tel Aviv, Balkan Beat Box emerged as a force in New York City’s underground music scene during 2005, with a self-titled album that introduced its Mediterranean-inflected, globalised electronica sound. Founded by Israeli-born Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat, the band built its reputation on explosive live shows, especially after the addition of frequent collaborator Tomer Yosef as frontman. His wild onstage energy not only galvanised live audiences and the pulsing nine-piece ensemble, but became a major factor in the cohesive songwriting trio that saw Tamir crafting hard-edged beats, Ori orchestrating melodies and Tomer writing the hard-hitting lyrics. As their popularity bloomed, so did their musical ambition, and their sound ventured to Belgrade and other points east on the 2010 album Blue Eyed Black Boy, then boiled over with handcrafted beats and samples for the current album Give, projecting a harder-edged electronic sound. “This is our most hardcore album so far,” explains Tamir. “The songs and their subjects are darker and more political.” Still, there is piercing saxophone as the most prominent instrumental voice among the beats, adding spice and exotic harmonies to the hard, eastern-inspired rhythms. And despite the biting nature of the lyrics, the band members emphatically cite their main interest as peace.

Bärra are the West wind travelling from Arnhem Land, they carry both the sacred song lines of Yolngu Elder Djalu Gurruwiwi and the modern voices of his peoples’ 60,000 year old culture. Wally De Backer, better known by his musical moniker Gotye has been invited into Yolngu culture through a musical dialogue that transcends the limitations of spoken dialects. The music of this unprecedented collaboration will feature in the upcoming film about Djalu by London-based film-maker Ben Strunin, entitled Baywara (Yolngu for lightning power).

Sat @ 3.00pm

Sat @ 6.00pm

Sun @ 8.15pm

Stage 2 Moreton Bay Stage

Mon @ 8.00pm

Internode Centre Stage Stage 2

This journey of two cultures uniting in song will be explored with an Artist in Conversation session on the Moreton Bay Stage on the Saturday followed on the Monday by a performance on the Zoo Stage featuring Djalu Gurruwiwi, Gotye and the Arnhem Land musicians, Bärra.

Sat @ 7.30pm [aic] Mon @ 7.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage Zoo Stage

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Bombino

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

~ Niger ~

~ Canada ~

~ ITaly ~

Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar has dazzled the world with his heavy-duty recalibration of desert blues. From Niger, he brings a distant Islamic culture unexpectedly close through the universal language of rock‘n‘roll – aided by his collaboration with producer Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, who recorded Bombino’s breakthrough 2013 album Nomad in Nashville. The son of poor villagers in Agadez, Bombino is a member of the Tuareg Ifoghas tribe, whose rebellion against colonialism forced Bombino’s family into exile several times. He taught himself guitar as a teen in Algeria and Libya, repeatedly watching videos of Jimi Hendrix and Mark Knopfler to master their licks. In 2009, filmmaker Ron Wyman heard a cassette of Bombino’s music while traveling near Agadez and spent a year before finding him in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where Bombino was in exile after two band members were killed in Niger’s Tuareg rebellion. When the Tuaregs put down their arms and returned to Niger in 2010, Bombino staged a concert to celebrate the newfound peace. It established Bombino as a hero of the Tuareg people, led to recording an album produced by Wyman, then travelling to the US for concerts that won him admiration from The Rolling Stones, Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire and Dan Auerbach. The subsequent Nomad album debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard World Music album chart and iTunes World chart.

Buffy Sainte-Marie invented the role of Native American activist pop star. In the early 1960s, when she first toured North America as a solo artist, the native of Cree First Nations Reserve in Saskatchewan startled audiences expecting Pocahontas in fringes, instead entertaining and educating them with the realities of Native American passion, love, tragedy and music. In her remarkably diverse life, Buffy also spent five years on Sesame Street, raised a son, earned a PhD in Fine Arts, taught Digital Music as adjunct professor and won a Golden Globe and Academy Award for her song Up Where We Belong (a hit for Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warne from the movie soundtrack An Officer and A Gentleman).

Her versatility as a songwriter was further underlined by the hit Until It‘s Time for You to Go, recorded by Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Barbara Streisand and Cher, and Universal Soldier, which became a peace movement anthem. Lauded for her stunning live performances, Buffy’s edgy energy is propelled by her rocking band from the Indian Reserves of Manitoba.

Her 18th album, Running for the Drum, continues to address commanding themes of great loves and protest against environmental greed.

Hailing from Salento in Puglia, at the heel of southern Italy, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino specialises in pizzica, a furiously rhythmic and often trance-like sound associated with the frenzied taratantism folk dance. This mimics the heightened excitability and restlessness of people affected by tarantula bites, with legend claiming the dance cures victims. While the rhythms abound with energy, the songs boast a haunting, dramatic quality built around the insistent pounding of the tamburello frame drum over driving harmonies from layers of violin, bouzouki, bagpipes and accordion. Led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Mauro Durante, whose father Rina founded the band in 1975, the seven-piece band mixes tradition with experimentation. It switches from rousing dance to introspective sentiments cased in thoughtful ballads, and, although mainly an acoustic ensemble, the band can rock like crazy. Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino’s bold revitalization of Southern Italian music has even seen the group work with a host of unlikely artists, from Malian kora virtuoso Ballaké Sissoko to contemporary classical composer Ludovico Einaudi, to explosive rock drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police. Critically acclaimed for its 17 albums, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino has an exotic mystique that blends a fascinating dichotomy of tradition and modernity.

Fri @ 7.00pm

Mon @ 5.00pm Internode Centre Stage Sun @ 7.15pm [aic] Speakers Corner 6

Sat @ 8.00pm

Zoo Stage

Mon @ 2.00pm

Stage 2

Mon @ 8.00pm

Stage 2 Speakers Corner 7

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Charlie Musselwhite

Che Sudaka

Criolo

~ USA ~

~ SPain ~

~ Brazil ~

The life of harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite reads like a classic blues song: born in Mississippi, raised in Memphis and schooled on the South Side of Chicago, developing close friendships with Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. Playing with these legends at Chicago clubs built Charlie’s reputation and led to him becoming a groundbreaking recording artist in the mid-1960s. His rugged vocals, howling harmonica and deep country blues guitar run through autobiographical songs revealing that tough times have been a huge part of his life, and have shaped his “music from the heart”. Musselwhite says his blues are a window into the deep well of his Mississippi soul. “It’s about the feeling, and about connecting with people. It ain’t about technique, either. It’s connecting to the truth and communicating with the people.” Musselwhite can be heard on recordings with such diverse artists as Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, The Blind Boys of Alabama, INXS (on the song Suicide Blonde) and Cyndi Lauper. But his own recordings remain the pivot of Charlie’s musical output, having earned 24 Blues Music Awards and his induction into the Blues Foundation’s Blues Hall Of Fame in 2010.

As four illegal immigrants, they forged their sound on the streets of Barcelona in 2002.

Now, having been invited to festivals in 40 countries and playing more than 1500 concerts around the world, Che Sudaka stand as the flagship group of Mestizo Music – the fiery Native American and European hybrid of cumbia, ska and punk.

Che Sudaka formed with the union of Argentinean brothers Leo (guitar and voice) and Kachafaz (vocals and megaphone), and their Colombian comrades Cheko (keyboards/accordion) and Jota (guitar), bringing together music found in South American popular culture and in such legendary bands as The Clash, Mano Negra and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. On stage, Che Sudaka’s overflowing energy is an overwhelming presence, inciting the audience to dance and also to think. The band’s expressive socio-critical lyrics pull down ideological frontiers, challenge politicians and defend human rights. Using urgent music as the universally understood language to broadcast their messages, the band’s coherent sound makes it stand out from the crowd. Che Sudaka identifies itself as a band with a mission and prides itself as being a medium for collective consciousness – underlined by the 2014 release of its sixth studio album Holy.

Criolo defines where rap meets soul music in Brazil. His rise to the top of Brazil’s charts is especially unlikely, as he grew up in a mud-floored shack within the shanty town of Grajaú in São Paulo. From this tough urban environment, he used music to channel his rage and make sense of the city’s crazed reality. Writing his first song aged 11, Hip-Hop was his first love, but now, aged 39, Criolo has developed an adventurous range without sacrificing intensity. The hard-hitting MC has added the voice of a poet to embrace Afrobeat, samba and reggae as well as rap. His 2011 album Nó Na Orelha (Knot In The Ear) represented a remarkable breakthrough by an underground name to the mainstream spotlight. Made in an atmosphere of low-budget, creative freedom, it became one of the albums of the year and made Criolo a media star, although he often conducted interviews beside his inspirational mother Dona Vilani, a self-educated public school teacher with a love of philosophy. Criolo says he makes music out of despair for Brazil, where blatant and brutal social inequality is worsening despite an unprecedented economic boom. His thoughtful, heartfelt commentary is stunning for its diversity and power.

Fri @ 7.00pm

Sun @ 6.00pm

Sat @ 9.00pm

Stage 3

Mon @ 3.00pm

Stage 2 Internode Centre Stage

Mon @ 7.00pm

Stage 2 Internode Centre Stage

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C.W. Stoneking

Depedro

DJ Spooky

~ Australia ~

~ Spain ~

~ USA ~

The sepia-toned blues and ragtime of idiosyncratic songsmith C.W. Stoneking has taken an unexpected twist – going electric for his new album Gon’ Boogaloo. Six years since launching his acclaimed Jungle Boogie album, sounding like a jazz funeral with a heady pinch of calypso, Stoneking has conjured a different music from the dusty bones of the past. He laid aside his trademark 1931 National steel guitar and banjos in favour of a Fender Jazzmaster after hearing a recording of Charlie Christian playing Swing To Bop. It had been 22 years since Stoneking touched an electric guitar, but it has injected a wild jolt of excitement into his heady new mix of rock’n’gospel dancehall blues. Nothing has actually been ordinary in the life of Christopher William Stoneking, son of expat Americans who left California in 1972 to settle in the tiny Aboriginal settlement of Papunya, 250 miles west of Alice Springs.

He’s been plucking his National Steel guitar on outback stages since he was 11, before he finally got to record. Now settled in regional Victoria after five hectic years of performing in Europe and the US, Stoneking’s new album is the product of six years’ preparation, but recorded live with two microphones in only two days, without any overdubs or edits.

Spanish singer/songwriter/guitarist Jairo Zavala formed Depedro after accumulating an impressive arsenal of solo material during his stints performing with Calexico, Vacazul and 3000 Hombres. Depedro, a name chosen by Jairo for its Spanish and Mediterranean timbre, reflects the Madrid native’s love of Latin folk, flamenco, Afrobeat and rock, as well as the pre-WWII blues that filled the homes of his grandparents. Depedro’s third album since 2008 – La increible historia de un hombre bueno – serves as the culmination of Jairo’s travels around the world. Distinguished artists from three continents have collaborated on the album: Tony Allen (Fela Kuti’s famed AfroBeat drummer), Joey Burns and John Convertino (from Calexico), Nick Urata (DeVotchKa) and Australia’s Bernard Fanning (exPowderfinger). It seems eclectic but makes perfect sense for a musician who lives and breathes Spain, yet has Peruvian blood on his father’s side and whose mother grew up in Guinea. Depedro’s songs are charged with healing energy, infused with the sounds of the street, filled with extraordinary landscapes and tributes to Latin America, including Mexican standards and Brazilian classics.

He embodies the DJ as artist. Paul D. Miller works across genres as a conceptual artist, author and musician – but is perhaps best known as DJ Spooky. His ambitious, elaborate, often hypnotic soundscapes are noted equally for their eclectic imagination and post-modern intellectualism. Miller has recorded a huge volume of music and collaborated with artists, writers, musicians and composers including Robert Wilson, Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mariko Mori, Kool Keith/Doctor Octagon, Pierre Boulez, Saul Williams, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Beyond music, Miller’s work as a media artist has been presented at several international biennials, including a sound sculpture for Milan’s centenary celebration of the Futurist movement. His writings have appeared in leading journals and also influence his music output. In December 2007, he travelled to Antarctica to gather sonic and visual materials for Terra Nova: The Antarctic Suite, then released The Book of Ice in 2011, exploring the impact of climate change on Antarctica, that developed into a multi-media installation, and a music composition for string quartet.

For WOMADelaide 2015, Spooky is doing a DJ set, and is also performing ARTIC RHYTHMS with a cellist and violinist.

Fri @ 9.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Sat @ 2.00pm

Sat @ 5.00pm

Stage 2

Sun @ 10.30pm Mon @ 7.00pm [aic] (Arctic Rhythms)

Sun @ 8.15pm

Internode Centre Stage Stage 3

Speakers Corner 7 Speakers Corner 6

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Emma Donovan & The PutBacks

Emma Swift & Robyn Hitchcock

Fanfare Ciocarlia

~ Australia ~

~ Australia / UK ~

~ Romania ~

Acclaimed Indigenous vocalist Emma Donovan and Melbourne combo The PutBacks produce hard-hitting, heartfelt soul that is uniquely Australian, telling stories of grief, struggle and redemption.

Their album, Dawn, has bruising honesty, taking some cues from the burgeoning soul revival, but it’s no attempt at reviving a bygone era. Emma says there’s more “blackfella music” in it, with songwriting more akin to classic Aboriginal bands like Coloured Stone than to America’s Sharon Jones. Sure, there are shades of every soul record you ever liked sneaking through, but it’s unmistakably Indigenous Australian, tracing a journey through Emma’s life in song. She grew up singing church songs with her maternal grandparents on New South Wales’s north coast. Her first secular gigs were singing in The Donovans, a band comprising her mother and five uncles.

With her mother, Emma also sang country for years, and in her youth was a fixture at the Tamworth Country Music Festival, but she always yearned for the bluesier tones of her father’s record collection. Years later, after touring and recording with many Indigenous music mainstays and developing as a solo artist, Emma met The PutBacks, and finally found the gritty blues-soaked band she had been looking for.

When British psychedelic-folk veteran Robyn Hitchcock found himself standing next to Americana songbird and radio sweetheart Emma Swift at an Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell concert in Texas during 2013, a new door in sadcore music opened up. Something between them clicked; nine months later they were living and rehearsing in the tiny kitchen of a damp English seaside flat once inhabited

by Charles Darwin. Drawn together musically by a penchant for sad songs, the pair arranged and sang tunes by The Everley Brothers, Townes Van Zandt, The Band, David Bowie, and Elvis Costello.

They also began to work magic on each other‘s songs, through Emma’s yearning harmonies and Robyn’s crystalline guitar-playing. Their musical history is both diverse and fascinating. Robyn’s eclectic journey has skipped across genres, from psychedelia through alternative rock to acoustic folk, through several ensembles (The Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians), then a prodigious amount of solo recordings and collaborations. The latest is with Emma, who left Sydney to base herself in Nashville, where she recorded her debut solo self titled EP. Hers is a voice of pure heartbreak, and together they know the value of dark material; soulful and simple yet trippy, with the unlikely harmony of folk, twang, psychedelia and sadcore.

The 24-legged brass beast that is Fanfare Ciocarlia puts a new spin on eastern funk grooves, bringing ancient Balkan gypsy traditions into dance clubs across the planet. The big brass orchestra hails from the hidden village of Zece Prajini, high in the misty north-eastern mountains of Romania, where 80 gypsy farming families live a traditional rural lifestyle. They especially hold dear the Ottoman tradition of brass bands accompanying weddings, funerals and feasts. Henry Ernst, a young German music fan, wandered into the village in 1996 and marveled at this living musical tradition, believing it ripe for world consumption. While the gypsies only spoke their local Romany dialect, audiences immediately understood the tenor of their fierce Balkan funk. Racing at breakneck speed, their ripping rhythms and sweet and sour horns present a sound unique among brass bands – evident in their recording of Born To Be Wild for the movie Borat, to radical reinterpretations of the James Bond Theme and Duke Ellington’s Caravan, to the Balkan Brass Battle concerts, where the Romanians face off against a Serbian orchestra. Having learnt their craft at the feet of their fathers and grandfathers, Fanfare Ciocarlia has presented the true spirit of gypsy music through nine albums and more than 1500 concerts across the world.

Sun @ 9.30pm

Zoo Stage

Sat @ 1.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Fri @ 9.00pm

Stage 2

Mon @ 1.00pm

Internode Centre Stage

Moreton Bay

Sun @ 5.00pm

Internode Centre Stage

Mon @ 4.00pm

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First Aid Kit

Flavia Coelho

FourPlay String Quartet

~ SWeden ~

~ Brazil ~

~ Australia ~

Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg have embraced the plaintive new folk idiom, popularised by the likes of Fleet Foxes and Joanna Newsome.

Emerging in 2007 after a home-recorded demo of their song Tangerine became a hit on Swedish radio, the duo struck a chord with audiences for their clean harmonies and simple instrumentation of guitar, autoharp and keyboards. Their debut First Aid Kit album, The Big Black & The Blue, released when Klara was aged only 17 and Johanna aged 19, earned inclusion on several influential music website Best of 2010 lists and triggered extensive international touring. In 2011, they spent formative time in the US, recording with Mike Mogis, acclaimed producer and member of indie group Bright Eyes, at his ARC Studios in Nebraska. Beyond their original compositions, the sisters’ portfolio has been defined by several telling cover versions: Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Universal Soldier (made famous in 1965 by Donovan), Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Peasant Song, which attracted a huge YouTube audience, and the blues standard It Hurts Me Too (made famous by folkblues singer Karen Dalton in 1969), which First Aid Kit recorded with Jack White at his Third Man Studios in Nashville. Their third studio album, Stay Gold, was released in 2014 and, appropriately, soon registered gold sales status in Sweden.

Flavia Coelho presents a fresh brand of smart, catchy Brazilian music with sexy melodies dancing over a complex fusion of rhythmic and melodic influences. Born in Rio but now based in Paris, Flavia built her sound around a sweet rhythmic collision of Brazilian and Caribbean styles. While there’s an undercurrent of traditional north-eastern Brazilian sounds such as forro and frevo, it’s often reggae and ragga that dominate. Her effortless, relaxed style that eases between slinky melodies and bursts of rapid-fire hip-hop has developed quickly since she first went on stage at the age of 14. In 2002, she toured Europe with a carnival troupe, then moved back to Paris in 2006, but it wasn’t until 2011, when Flavia won the fifth edition of the musical springboard Generation Reservoir, that her music began to gain traction with audiences. Her album Bossa Muffin first defined her distinctive meeting place of samba, bossa nova and ragamuffin, and her 2014 album Mundo Meu, that features guest appearances from Speech (Arrested Development) and Tony Allen (Fela Kuti) also displays Catalan rumba and afrobeat influences. Equally at home with her band or just acoustic guitar, Flavia’s music comes alive with the new sounds of Brazilian pop and tradition.

Forget everything you thought you knew about string quartets. FourPlay String Quartet approach their music with an inspired fervour, combining the discipline and skill of the classical world with an eclectic mix of gypsy, pop, hip-hop, post and indie-rock.

The sheer diversity of the group’s sound is evident in their clever interpretations of well-known classics, coaxing a multitude of sounds from their instruments through pedal chains and amplifiers, and the original compositions featured on their 2014 release This Machine. FourPlay String Quartet began by performing covers by unlikely artists – The Strokes, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, Robert Johnson, Sufjan Stevens – but their sound and musicality has matured and evolved since their selfdistributed debut Catgut Ya Tongue?

Brothers Peter and Tim Hollo, Lara Goodridge and Shenzo Gregorio have performed at some of the world’s most famous venues and festivals, played the album Pet Sounds with Brian Wilson, collaborated with Plaid (Warp/UK) on a live filmscore for animated feature Tekkonkinkreet, created live comic book scores, performed at three TEDx Sydney events, and collaborated with popular author Neil Gaiman for The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains.

Sun @ 7.00pm

Sat @ 7.00pm

Stage 2

Sat @ 8.00pm

Sun @ 2.00pm

Stage 3

Mon @ 2.00pm

Internode Centre Stage

Zoo Stage Speakers Corner 7

Neneh Cherry Neneh Cherry’s new, wildly acclaimed album Blank Project is her first solo record in 18 years. But don’t go thinking she’s been away.

The curly-haired west London B-girl who mouthed ‘Wha’s he like?’ in her 1989 smash hit ‘Buffalo Stance’ has been creating, collaborating, following her muse, keeping ahead of the times.

The daughter of Swedish artist Moki Cherry, stepdaughter of the great American jazz musician Don, Neneh has always set precedents.

“My approach to music is quite jazz,” says this former punk. “I don’t like relying on what you did last time as being the thing that’s going to make it work this time. I don’t do the same thing twice.”

Recorded in just five days, and inspired by the memory of Moki, who passed away in 2009, Blank Project is unique. Helmed by British post-rock producer-du-jour Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, and made in collaboration with north London electronica genii RocketNumberNine, it’s a five-star work with air and depth, darkness and light. A work that underscores Cherry’s early punk dabblings in bands such as The Slits and Rip Rig + Panic.

Sparse instrumentation and pounding tribal rhythms vie and blend with vocals that often feel abstract, almost spoken word; lyrics tell of black dogs and the comfort to be found in darkness; of separatism and fear mongering and the need to fight cynicism.

“The political message is there,” says Cherry, who was raised in Sweden and New York as part of a lifestyle that was inclusive, conscious, outward looking.

“But it’s contained in smaller, more personal stories. But I’ve always been allergic to being preachy; I don’t have a right to say how things should be done. Songs are the place where I try and figure stuff out.

“That’s why I love live music.” She flashes that megawatt grin. “Because things happen in the moment. This album was done that way. Do-or-die.

Give yourself up to it. There’s something about hitting on that magic that lets me articulate things in a way I would like to do in ordinary life.”

Life for the mother-of-three seems far from ordinary; she’s moved from London to Malaga to New York to Sweden and within the last few months, back to London again. Always, her door has been open to other musicians, other like creative minds. Nomad, the production company she runs with her producer/composer husband Cameron McVey, is buoyed by the spirit of collaboration, and by the desire to put something back.

A raft of artists have come together to explore musical possibilities, from Bristol trip-hop collectives Massive Attack and Portishead to Swedish free-jazz collective The Thing and now, brothers Ben and Tim Page of RocketNumberNine – “a fearless, hardcore force of musical nature” who are here with Cherry at WOMADelaide.

“When I look at the things that have happened in my life, I’m really grateful,” says Cherry. “It’s been like a crazy domino effect, one thing spilling into the next. Now I’m just kind of here, in myself.

That’s the nice thing about having made the trip, I can be more conscious of what it is I want to do. It’s a liberating vibe.”

“You know wha’ I mean?” Another grin.

“Then I just go out and do it.”

Jane Cornwell

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Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys

Gruff Rhys

Hi-Tops Brass Band featuring Shazza T.

~ Canada ~

~ Wales ~

~ Australia ~

This is untamed, old-time bluegrass from north of the border, delivered with a wild, high-spirited revelry that couples frenzied playing and an irresistible urge to kick up your legs and dance. Hailing from Prince Edward Island in far eastern Canada, the award-winning Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys perform with an energy level that practically yanks you out of your seat by the collar. Driven by the breakneck speed of Gordie “Crazy Legs” MacKeeman’s supernatural fiddlin’ – not to mention his frenetic, high-kicking dancing as he plays – this quartet creates a roots music meltdown thanks to the sum of Peter Cann’s blistering guitar solos and the multi-instrumental talents of rhythm section Thomas Webb and Mark Geddes. The Rhythm Boys have become a renowned live drawcard, earning the Galaxie Supernova Award at the 2012 Ottawa Folk Festival for outstanding live performance.

This thrilling energy has been translated to the new album Pickin’ and Clickin’, as the band adeptly delivers original compositions besides such classic covers as Lawrence Welk’s Champagne Polka and Two Hours Traffics Heroes of the Sidewalk. The quartet’s great musical skill and love for the classic bluegrass repertoire is only enhanced by their jaw-dropping stagecraft and showmanship.

Welsh rock’n’roll troubadour Gruff Rhys has explored many boundaries of the musical form, tracing ambitious musical concepts and unorthodox yet captivating narratives.

Through nine albums with Welsh genre-benders Super Furry Animals, two with Neon Neon and a handful of solo LPs, the restless and inquisitive Gruff Rhys has distinctively documented the lives of others and set their stories to luscious pop music heavily seeped in timeless melody and wide-eyed wonder. His latest offering is the intriguing American Interior, based on the life of John Evans, an 18th century Welshman who set off on a quest across America to find the Madogwys, a fabled tribe of light skinned, Welsh speaking native Americans. Although a folly, the determined Evans created maps of his journey that went beyond the known borders of the United States and paved the way for future explorers. Gruff has developed American Interior into a CD, book, movie and app for mobile devices, and its glowing reception has cemented Gruff’s reputation as a social historian and master storyteller. It joins an incredible cast of characters he has immortalised in song throughout his records, from tales of gentleman rogue Howard Marks to controversial automobile engineer John DeLorean and communist publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.

With their heads in the clouds and their feet buried deep in the roots of New Orleans second line, the Hi-Tops Brass Band blend 9 pieces of raw brass with the who‘s who of Australian hip-hop. One of Sydney’s hottest contemporary brass bands, the Hi-Tops continue the tradition championed by bands such as the Dirty Dozen, Rebirth Brass Band and Hypnotic Brass Band to bring high-energy, dance-floor heat with a unique Australian flavour. Shazza T (Sam Dobson) is a Sydney based rapper/producer/ instrumentalist and composer. His debut album, a collaboration with Big Village producer P Major, FKVol1; Fat Kontrollerz has been gaining a steady underground following, while his most well known work to date is his controversial, self titled mixtape Shazza T which has been getting steady rotation on Triple J Unearthed.

When you hear that big-brass sound, roll up and step out to the street. Don’t worry, you’ll hear them coming.

Fri @ 10.00pm

Zoo Stage

Sat @ 7.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Sat @ 1.00pm

Sat @ 3.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Mon @ 8.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage

Sun @ 7.00pm

Stage 3 Zoo Stage

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Invisible City DJ’s

Jambinai

Julia Henning

~ Canada ~

~ South Korea ~

~ Australia ~

Invisible City has its roots in Canadian soil, but the DJ and production duo of Brandon Hocura and Gary Abugan has scoured North America and the Caribbean to revive towers of classic disco and vinyl rarities, providing seamless mixes for Beats in Space, Test Pressing, LN-CC and Red Bull Music Academy. Invisible City cut a reputation for their creative DJ sets, cramming Montreal loft parties, Tokyo clubs and Melbourne’s Music Festival with crowds of ecstatic dancers. It earned them respect from global dance scene giants Moodymann, DJ Harvey, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Giles Peterson, Caribou and Four Tet. As a valuable addition to their DJ sets, the duo’s creation of Invisible City Editions recording label features impeccable releases from forgotten and obscure heroes of the golden disco period – extraterrestrial disco royalty Beppe Loda, Trinidadian soul pioneer Michael Boothman, Zambia’s mythical band Witch, as well as Stephen Encinas’ seminal Disco Illusion reissue. Hocura and Abugan go all over the world seeking rare and forgotten vinyl, and by scouring warehouses in Trinidad for obscure calypso-soaked mechanical soul, Hocura and Abugan have travelled deeper than most. As a result, their re-issuing label has been praised for redefining how we interact with the past.

Welcome to the tough new sound where Korean tradition collides with modern hardcore. Jambinai is an award-winning post-rock/world music hybrid formed in Seoul, South Korea by guitarist and piri (oboe) player Ilwoo Lee, Bomi Kim on haegum (a fiddle-like instrument), and Eun Youg Sim on geomungo (zither). It began in 2009 when Lee (who also plays guitar in Seoul screamo band 49 Morphines and hardcore band Combative Post) was studying with Kim and Sim at the Korea National University of Arts. After graduating, they met at a mutual friend’s concert and discussed the need for Korean traditional music to be presented in new, relevant ways. It led to the birth of stunning sonic compositions that mix mesmerizing sounds from the past with elements of folk, metal and a crunching electronic rhythm section. In September 2010, Jambinai issued an EP through respected Korean hardcore label GMC Records, which was critically acclaimed for ushering Korean traditional music into the 21st century. It led to a full-length album, Différance, in February 2012. Gigging as a quintet with the addition of hard-hitting drums and electric bass as a foil for the traditional Korean instruments, Jambinai yields ferocious sonic landscapes that are equally unsettling and uplifting.

Her music and voice have a haunting, lyrical quality that has propelled Willunga singer/songwriter Julia Henning to national prominence. Influenced by the songwriting of Leonard Cohen and compared flatteringly to Tori Amos and Sarah Blasko, Julia’s voice has been praised for its amazing range, beautiful tone and emotional strength. Her poise as an artist reflects her ability to overcome adversity.

Born with a rare and usually fatal lung condition, Julia was not expected to live past childhood. Now in her mid-20s, she is driven and passionate, her songwriting noted for its honesty and compassion. Julia set about creating her music career from the age of 9, writing songs in a book she carried everywhere. By 11, she had filled many books and recorded her first single in a home studio above a fish shop. A successful crowdfunding campaign in 2013 enabled the recording of her debut album, Fledgling, with producer Govinda Doyle (Angus & Julia Stone). On stage, Julia is supported by the lush input of Eli Green (percussion), Matthew Moore (piano and vocals), Nick Evans (bass) and Simon Gould (guitar). They deliver performances that capture heartfelt elements of vulnerability, determination and strength, earning a nomination for the Fowlers Live Music Awards, Best Pop Act 2014.

Mon @ 10.00pm

Sat @ 3.00pm

Sun @ 4.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Mon @ 9.00pm

Stage 3 Zoo Stage

Stage 3

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Jupiter & Okwess International

Kamerunga

Lake Street Dive

~ Democratic Republic of Congo ~

~ Australia ~

~ USA ~

Jupiter Bokondji is the rebel general of the Kinshasa music scene in Congo, a long-time stalwart noted for his hypnotic, high-energy playing. Jupiter reactivates Congo’s forgotten rhythms and melodies by injecting the urban groove of the city into his band Okwess International. It’s a tight, edgy combination of Afropop, traditional Congolese rhythms, funk, and rock music that he calls Bofenia Rock – a vehicle to broadcast lyrics with heavy political and social messages, often criticising the DRC government and encouraging Africans to realise their potential. Jupiter’s perspective on his politically and economically troubled country is unique; his father was a Congolese diplomat (the family lived in East Germany during Jupiter’s teen years), but his grandmother had a greater bearing on his music – a traditional healer who had Jupiter play percussion and sing with her at ceremonies and funerals. He created Okwess International in 1990 and they toured Africa, but when civil war broke out in the DRC, some band members fled to Europe. Jupiter stayed in Kinshasa, and in 2006 was featured in the French documentary Jupiter‘s Dance. It brought him to the attention of UK musician Damon Albarn and triggered the reformation of Okwess International. Now, in the wake of their 2013 debut album Hotel Univers, Jupiter is the Congo’s new music celebrity.

From far north Queensland, Kamerunga redefines Australian folk, stretching the canvas to include elements of world music, jazz, classical, rock and reggae in a vibrant new fusion. Since its inception in 2008, the Cairns-based band has performed at every major Australian roots music festival, and was Australia‘s sole representative at the 2011 Rainforest World Music Festival in Borneo. The band’s ARIA-nominated 2008 debut album The Push and its 2013 follow-up Worlds Kaleid were enthusiastically received by reviewers in Australia and the UK, while its third album, Terra Australis, attracted immediate BBC airplay after its release in September 2014. The band’s frontline comprises multi-instrumentalists Peter Ella (guitars, mandolin), Andree Baudet (saxophones, keyboards) and lead singer David Martin (also on violin, mandolin and didgeridoo). They are supported by Torres Strait Islander Will Kepa (bass) and national music writer Tony Hillier on rhythm guitar, backing vocals and percussion.

Drummer Nigel Pegrum, also the band’s producer, performed with legendary English bands the Small Faces and Steeleye Span for 20 years. The sum of these parts is innovative musical cross-fertilisation – sprightly jigs interwoven with creative time changes, Latin-jazz flourishes and Middle-Eastern instrumentation. It jazzes and gypsies its way deep inside your head.

Jazz-schooled, DIY-motivated and obsessed with classic pop, Lake Street Dive is a luscious musical curiosity that keeps developing and delighting in intriguing ways. Formed initially as a musical experiment – a “free country band”, while the quartet of drummer Mike Calabrese, bassist Bridget Kearney, vocalist Rachael Price and trumpet-wielding guitarist Mike “McDuck” Olson were studying together at Boston’s New England Conservatory – the band has morphed into a vivid, largely acoustic, groove-driven strain of indie-pop.

It all starts with catchy songs that are openhearted and wryly inquisitive, injected with an irresistible blend of abandon and precision. “We intended to play country music in an improvised, avant-garde style, and it sounded terrible,” Bridget remembers, “but the combination of people and personalities actually made a lot of sense.” Lake Street Dive has gone on to make the most of its pop music virtues, with evocative song craft and tasty reworked covers, from The Jacksons’ I Want You Back to Hall & Oates’ Rich Girl.

Sinewy grooves are driven by Bridget’s hefty upright bass, with Price’s soaring, forthright vocals at counterpoint to McDuck’s nimble trumpet. It all makes for a sound with familiar roots, lean yet laced with heavenly harmonies, and with a unique slant that is instantly infectious.

Sat @ 8.00pm

Mon @ 3.00pm

Mon @ 6.00pm

Mon @ 4.00pm

Internode Centre Stage Stage 2

Zoo Stage

Stage 2

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Live Live Cinema

Luzmila Carpio

Malawi Mouse Boys

~ New Zealand ~

~ Bolivia ~

~ Malawi ~

A startling new conversation between film, theatre, music and sound design has been forged – with everything being fused live before an audience. Created and composed by New Zealand’s leading musical maverick Leon Radojkovic, in conjunction with Jumpboard Productions, the idea of Live Live Cinema is to forge a new type of cinematic mélange that celebrates performance skill. Radojkovic and his crew of musicians and actors bring films to life on stage, and while live cinema is growing as a popular attraction – with small musical ensembles tending to perform over silent films – Radojkovic’s team takes the concept of live cinema further. Over the top of a projected film, all audio is produced live – music by an ensemble, dialogue performed live by actors playing multiple roles and a lone courageous Foley artist recreating every sound effect. The result is an immersive audio/visual environment that emphasises mood and atmosphere, and even absolute fear into an audience. For WOMADelaide 2015, Live Live Cinema will present one show of Herk Harvey’s 1962 classic black-and-white cult favourite Carnival of Souls, and one show of Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 – two gems of cinematic gothic horror that will breathe new life through the injection of multi-tiered live performance.

As a child, Luzmila Carpio learned the daily songs of the Quechua and Aymara Indigenous people that inhabit the mountains and valleys of Northern Potosí in Bolivia. Now, the famed Bolivian folk singer continues to revive the songs and culture of the Andes, singing in the 2000-year-old Quechua tongue rather than Spanish and wearing the traditional colourful garb of her heritage. A master of the five-string charango, Luzmila’s rhythmically and melodically complex songs recognise the Quechua’s ancestral veneration of the earth, called Pacha Mama, in addition to calls for the emancipation of women, resistance against injustices and the racial segregation suffered by Indians living in Bolivia. Her music stands as a rebellion against the predominance of western ways over Indigenous traditions. Luzmila was born in the tiny village of Qala-Qala, 10,000 feet high in the Andean Mountains, first leaving it as a teenager to sing on a regional radio broadcast. Her music came to international recognition after she arrived in Paris in the early 1980s, to engage with UNICEF in programs promoting education in Bolivia through folk music. Her eventual collaborations with French musicians led to recordings, shows and events across the world, and recognition from the likes of Yehudi Menuhin, who described her as a “singing violin.”

As childhood friends, they sold barbecued field mice on sticks as snacks to travellers in rural Africa. Now, Malawi Mouse Boys have the world mesmerised by their sweet, soulful singing. While the group name pays homage to their childhood job, their music pays homage to God through a peculiarly African interpretation of gospel music.

The group – which comprises vocalists Zondiwe Kachingwe, Alfred Gavanala, Nelson Mulligo and Josephy Nekwankwa – was discovered and recorded on the clay ground outside their hut by Grammy award-winning producer Ian Brennan, famed for his work with artists as diverse as Tinariwen, Lucinda Williams and Richard Thompson. Undaunted by this being the first ever release in the Chichewa language to reach beyond Malawi, their 2012 debut album He Is #1 was ranked by Amazon at number 75 in their Top 100 Albums of 2012. It was the only world music title included in that list, recalling the power and purity of Sam Cooke’s 1950s gospel recordings, with soaring harmonies atop soprano guitars and ukuleles fashioned from scrap tin and percussion tapped on drink cans with spoons – primal, yet universal. Malawi Mouse Boys built on their critical acclaim with the release of Dirt Is Good in 2014.

Fri @ 11.10pm ~ Carnival of Souls Stage 3

Sat @ 4.00pm

Sat @ 5.00pm

Sun @ 11.00pm ~ Dementia 13

Sun @ 6.00pm

Presented with support from Creative New Zealand’s Touring Australia Initiative.

Stage 3

Internode Centre Stage

Mon @ 2.00pm [w]

Stage 3 Moreton Bay Stage

Sun @ 2.00pm

Speakers Corner 7 Stage 2

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Margaret Leng Tan

Marrugeku Theatre Company – Cut the Sky

Max Savage and the False Idols

~ Singapore / USA ~

~ AUSTRALIA ~

~ AUSTRALIA ~

Visionary pianist Margaret Leng Tan is a major force within avant-garde music, sidestepping conventional boundaries to embrace aspects of theatre, choreography and performance. Expect the unexpected when Margaret performs CLANGOR!, a diminutive music-theatre of nostalgia and humour performed on toy pianos and all manner of toy instruments, from bicycle bells to a hand-cranked music box.

Margaret treats them as real instruments in keeping with the French avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp’s statement, “poor tools require better skills.” She also fulfils mentor John Cage’s long-standing conviction that one can make music on just about any object capable of producing sound. This year she celebrates her 20th anniversary as a pioneer of the toy piano. After discovering Cage’s Suite for Toy Piano in 1993, Tan became fascinated with the artistic potential of the toy piano and more recently, with other toy instruments as well.

In her ground breaking 1997 CD, The Art of the Toy Piano, she elevated a humble toy to the status of a real instrument. Critics acknowledge her as the world’s first toy piano virtuoso who has inspired composers to create a unique repertoire for a new instrument. Tan’s toys have delighted audiences at festivals around the world.

Cut the Sky is a meditation on a dystopian Australian future; a ‘ghost musical’ sung by the climate change affected, the extinct, the dislocated. Featuring five poems by Nyikina/Walmajarri poet and dream catcher Edwin Lee Mulligan matched with five songs by Nick Cave, Buffalo Springfield and ‘future soul’ singer Ngaiire, Cut the Sky invites us all to dream. Mirroring many current situations around the world today, Indigenous peoples in the north west of Australia are facing massive industrialisation on the traditional lands of many language groups. Cut the Sky begins in the near future in an environmental catastrophe and propels us back in time to the early mining protests on Aboriginal lands in Western Australia which raised questions of resource management, land rights and how we value that which is above and below the earths crust. Have the questions changed, or are they still the same? And as we face our future, who will be there to sing the rain song when the sky speaks? Cut the Sky continues Marrugeku’s commitment to intensive local and international collaborations exploring the relevance of Indigenous knowledge systems to the broader global community today. Cast and co-devised with a specialist line up of dancers, singers and actors from remote and urban Australia and with a creative team from Burkina Faso, Belgium, Northern India and Australia, this ambitious multi art form project showcases Marrugeku’s hallmark contemporary choreography; restless, taut and unwavering.

Vintage soul meets the Outback, with layers of Americana and Australian grit built up from travelling the dusty roads of Central Australia. Adelaide’s Max Savage plays songs of heartache, loneliness and redemption with a polished brutality forged from years of touring the loneliest corners of the country. On his debut EP False Idols, you hear the sound of bitter regret and rock’n’roll swagger that belies his youth and talent, and transfers to a magnetic stage presence. The four-piece combo that surrounds him, The False Idols, has roots drawn from very different styles of music, carefully blending vintage rhythm and blues sensibilities with Savage’s intricately crafted songs. It creates a sound that is as unique as it is breathtaking – slow Telecaster twang and a weepy pedal steel guitar drawl offset by howling Hammond organ. There’s more than a passing reference to early freewheelin’ Bob Dylan; try Ryan Adams for a more contemporary reference. But despite some familiar musical touchstones, there’s an arresting raw freshness to Max Savage, typified by the husky growl of his emotion-stained voice. His beautifully crafted songs are the stock of a band that plays music of a kind not heard in Australia for a very long time.

Sun @ 2.00pm

Supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore.

Fri @ 8.00pm

Zoo Stage

Sat @ 11.30pm

Stage 2

Sat @ 2.00pm

Zoo Stage

Sun @ 8.15pm

Stage 2

Speakers Corner 7

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Meeta Pandit

Mista Savona with Prince Alla & Randy Valentine

Mr Culbuto

~ India ~

~ Australia ~

~ UK ~

India’s new classical singing star is Hindustani vocal virtuoso Meeta Pandit, granddaughter and disciple of Padma Bhushan Pt Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit, the doyen of Northern Indian Classical music in the 20th century, and the daughter of legendary Pt Laxman Krishnarao Pandit. As such, she upholds a vital 200-year-old family tradition of elite singers, through six unbroken generations.

Her melodious yet robust voice stretches over three octaves – a talent tested through especially difficult and challenging material, yet her intricate handling of ragas has won critical acclaim. The rendering of traditional but increasingly rare Tappa is one of the sublime offerings in her concerts. Besides the styles of Khayal and Tappa, Meeta is equally adept with genres of Tarana, Bhajan, Thumri, Sufi and cross-cultural music. Her performance embraces a cultural blend of instruments, as Meeta is accompanied by Akhtar Hasan on tabla and Bharat Bhushan Goswami on sarangi (the Indian 38-string violin). Beyond performing extensively at prestigious festivals around the world, Meeta has emerged as a cultural icon, being subject of the 2005 film Meeta – Linking a Tradition With Today and heralded by leading magazine India Today as one of the “Youth Powers – leading India in the new Millennium”.

Jake Savona – AKA Mista Savona – is the Melbourne-based master of reggae, dancehall, Hip-Hop, bass electronic music and dub, from cutting edge new sounds to heavy vintage roots. His production skills on the distinct yet seamless meshing of genres has earned Mista Savona an international reputation, leading to his collaborations with such high-profile artists as Jamaican singer Sizzla, Burro Banton, Capleton, Horace Andy (Massive Attack), Anthony B and Alton Ellis (The Godfather of Rocksteady). Noted international releases under Mista Savona’s belt include Melbourne Meets Kingston in 2007, the first album collaboration between Australian and renowned Jamaican artists, followed in 2011 with Warn The Nation, recorded in the UK, Jamaica, Australia and Africa.

Mista Savona is joined on stage at WOMADelaide 2015 by esteemed guests Prince Alla and Randy Valentine. Jamaican singer Prince Alla is a bona-fide legend of the roots reggae genre with over 40 years of immersion in the Jamaican music scene.

Newcomer singer-songwriter and producer Randy Valentine is one of the freshest Jamaican voices in recent years and has been going from strength to strength since the release of his 2012 mixtape Bring Back The Love. This collaboration will showcase the global reach, broad spectrum and raw power of roots reggae and dancehall music.

“… a living toy waiting desperately for someone to play with it, nonchalantly. it’s pulled along the road and put down here and there, for a few minutes or more if friends come by. deep down he doesn’t really care. as if by magic, it moves. now it’s your turn, it’s a tumble toy waiting for you…”

Sat @ 6.00pm

Sat @ 9.00pm

Fri

Sun @ 4.00pm

Zoo Stage Moreton Bay Stage

Sun @ 3.00pm

Speakers Corner 7 Internode Centre Stage

Mr Culbuto, a human roly-poly doll guided around the park by his humble assistant is 320 kilograms of raw poetry.

A creation of Dynamogène Theatre Company, Mr Culbuto has performed at over 800 events across 25 countries. The interactive street-theatre of this life-sized children’s toy juxtaposes the poetry of the machinery with the absurd, but deeply human acting of the character.

Don’t be afraid to say hello if you come across this strange new friend in the park.

Sat, Sun & Mon

near Hackney Rd entrance near Frome Rd entrance

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Myele Manzanza & The Eclectic

Neneh Cherry with RocketNumberNine+

Nick Waterhouse

~ New Zealand ~

~ UK / Sweden ~

~ USA ~

His drumming prowess finds Myele Manzanza seamlessly traversing jazz, Hip-Hop, R’n‘B, electronica, broken-beat, soul and world music. For the past six years, he has traveled the world as part of New Zealand’s acclaimed modern soul group Electric Wire Hustle. Now stepping forward with his solo debut, Myele reveals another dimension of his musical persona.

Myele was introduced to traditional African rhythms from an early age, performing on hand drums with his father Sam Manzanza, a Congolese master percussionist who was among the first Africans to perform Afrobeat and High Life music in New Zealand. Formal jazz training followed by performing at the world’s top festivals has earned Myele the reputation of a composer with vision, a producer and musician not afraid to experiment. His solo album, One, released in 2013, draws a line between traditional African music, classic jazz, golden age Hip-Bop, R’n’B and the skipping percussive impulses of modern bass music, featuring many top New Zealand talents. On stage, this comes together as Myele Manzanza & The Eclectic, combining Wellington’s queen of funk and soul, Bella Kalolo, and Sorceress’ leading lady Rachel Fraser on vocals in a seven-piece outfit that has become a dance-floor favourite.

Having always surprised and confronted, Neneh Cherry recently issued her first solo record in 17 years, the 2014 released Blank Project. Neneh’s childhood was divided between living in a New York loft and a Swedish forest with her mother, artist Moki Cherry, and stepfather, the jazz trumpet great Don Cherry. At 14, she dropped out of school and moved to London and tore up the UK with her revolutionary post-punk group Rip Rig + Panic. She then embraced hip-hop culture with her hit song Buffalo Stance and album Raw Like Sushi, before transforming her London home into a studio, record label and management company for emerging British acts including Massive Attack.

Neneh’s 1996 hit 7 Seconds with Youssou N’Dour introduced the Senegalese language Wolof to mainstream ears, but in 2009 the lossof her mother left her feeling introverted and unsure until she started writing music again as therapy. This regeneration process led to Neneh’s 2012 collaboration with Swedish free-jazz-noise collective The Thing, recording The Cherry Thing album containing startling new versions of songs by The Stooges, MF Doom and Ornette Coleman. Her 2014 Blank Project is an exciting result of her collaboration with electronic duo RocketNumberNine+ and influential producer Four Tet.

As a young man who makes old R&B, Californian guitarist Nick Waterhouse presents music that recalls the pre-rock sounds of the 1950s while possessing a modern-day level of energy and cool.

Wearing horn-rimmed glasses, a smart suit and well-trimmed short hair, Nick looks like he stepped out of a different historical era and sounds like a marvellous throwback, reminding that pre-hippie ‘50s and ‘60s rock was tight, hard and intense.

Performing since his early teens, Nick established his musical sensibilities amid the burgeoning Southern California DIY scene of the early 2000s (Burger Records, Ty Segall, McHugh’s Distillery studio), through which he refined his own idiosyncratic perspective on the spirit of American Rhythm & Blues and rock’n’roll.

His list of heroes includes Van Morrison, but in Waterhouse’s view, emulation is a journey; you never truly succeed, but you become something along the way. From his breakthrough self-released single Some Place in 2010, through his well-received albums Time’s All Gone and Holly, Nick has formed a tight touring band that has enjoyed several high-profile tours. On stage, he builds a mighty, durable swingin’ groove, perfectly riding the tension that exists between his wry lyrics and crisp arrangements.

Sat @ 9.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage

Sun @ 6.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Mon @ 4.00pm

Sun @ 8.15pm

Speakers Corner 7

Mon @ 8.00pm

Stage 3

Speakers Corner 7

Toumani Diabate The accumulated knowledge of 700 years of Malian culture is distilled through the plucked strings of legendary kora player Toumani Diabate.

His exceptional musical family boats 71 continuous generations of kora players – masters of the elegant 21-string West African harp that not only defines the beautiful flighty music of Mali, but also plugs into the core of Africa’s soul.

“Kora is the passport into Malian culture,” says Toumani. “It talks of spirituality and love. Westerners only really know about 5 per cent of African culture, so listening to the kora is opening up new knowledge to westerners. Kora has a history, geography, a legend, and that is why I make recordings and perform concerns. I want to share all that with the world.”

Toumani is the prodigy who has brought kora to global attention through 30 years of recordings, collaborations and international touring – including a 2008 WOMADelaide performance with his bold fusion group Symmetric Orchestra. His latest project is recording and performing with his 24-year-old son Sidiki, who has continued the kora tradition (he studies at the Mali conservatorium, where his father is one of the teachers), but is also a popular rap artist and Hip-Hop producer in Mali.

Working with IBA One, Sidiki has performed to audiences of 40,000 people in local football stadiums, but his sound stands apart from US rap; it has sinewy African beat patterns and embraces the storytelling tradition of Mali’s griots, the ancient line of troubadours responsible for continuing Mali’s oral history.

While he is proud of his son’s achievements and success in new music, Toumani is more impressed by the young generation remaining respectful of Mali’s rich griot traditions. “Lots of people forget what is in the past. It’s now all about technology, technology, technology. Well, that is good, but you cannot forget where you have come from. If you forget the past, you cannot know where to go. You will be lost.”

Toumani is pleased that Sidiki has his own style of playing kora, just as he adapted a different technique from his father, the great kora master Sidiki Diabati Senior.

“Kora can fit anywhere,” Toumani explains, pointing to recordings he has made with such diverse artists as Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keita, bluesman Taj Mahal,

Björk, guitar wizard Ali Farka Touré, and Gorillaz/Blur frontman Damon Albarn.

“Our kora tradition is like a mighty tree.

There are many roots. There are also many branches growing high above them, growing in their own direction, but they are connected.”

Appreciation and respect for the beauty and powerful cultural messages of traditional music is especially pertinent at home in Mali, a devout Muslim country where jihadists have tried to enforce prohibitive cultural measures in recent years through violence. Angered by this, Toumani & Sidiki voiced their concerns through their music, and it has resonated powerfully through their vast Malian audience. “We have known two powerful things throughout 700 years – kora and Koran – and this must continue,” says Toumani, a note of steely resolve to his voice. “Of course it is important for me to speak out, because violence from Muslim people makes no sense. It disturbs me greatly what has happened recently in Sydney, in Nigeria, in Syria, in Paris – this is not religion. Islam is peace. So I want to bring education through my music. For me, I am never just playing music. I am educating, with many, many elements inside. We all must continue to focus on what is right.”

David Sly

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club

Osadia

Public Service Broadcasting

~ Cuba ~

~ Spain ~

~ UK ~

In 1997, an assembly of renowned Cuban singers and musicians revived a forgotten repertoire of beautiful music – son, bolero, danzan and guajiro – that became famous as the soundtrack to the movie Buena Vista Social Club. Now, after a hectic 16 years of thrilling audiences around the world, the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club is set to bid adios with a farewell world tour. The group has toured in different combinations since 1997, but the current line-up – under band leader and original trombonist Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos – will feature stars from the original album and film, including the incomparable diva Omara Portuondo, trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal and laúd virtuoso Barbarito Torres (who also played with the Afro-Cuban All Stars). They will be joined on stage by veteran tres player Papi Oviedo; Havana’s young star pianist Rolando Luna; a superb rhythm section comprising double bassist Pedro Pablo and percussionists Andres Coayo, Filiberto Sánchez and Alberto La Noche; a three-man trumpet section led by high note specialist Luis Allemany and celebrated singers Carlos Calunga and Idania Valdéz.

This group represents the distillation of more than 1000 shows over 16 years involving more than 40 musicians, forging a dynamic, multi-generational big band that celebrates Cuban musical tradition with flair and élan.

The sculptural quality of hairstyling becomes theatre in the barber’s chairs of Osadia. This street theatre company formed in Barcelona in 1996, designed by multifaceted hairdresser, make-up artist and performer Alex Rendon. He envisaged a moment where an audience member becomes the central performer and is transformed on stage as styling becomes a showpiece, much to the enthralled rapture of the remaining audience. These transformations can happen anywhere – in a park, on the street, at a makeshift festival site – and to anyone who dares accept the challenge to sit in Osadia’s grand barber’s chairs. They create original and provocative exhibitions of sophisticated makeup and hair art, set to fantastic music mixes. The audience is always amazed by the transformed characters that descend from the chair, who become the centre of attention and are photographed wherever they go. Since this innovative show was first presented in Barcelona during 1996, it has been presented throughout Europe, Australia, US, South America, Africa, China and South-East Asia.

Art rock returns in serious specs and leather elbow patches. With a mission to inform, educate and entertain, Public Service Broadcasting is the corduroy-clad brainchild of London-based J. Willgoose, Esq (who juggles responsibilities between banjo, guitar, laptop and keyboards), working in cahoots with his drumming companion, Wrigglesworth. They sample old public information films, archive footage and propaganda material, and set them to anthemic new soundscapes. On stage, the films are screened simultaneously as laptops are fiddled with, drums are pounded, theremins are wafted at, guitars are bashed and banjos furiously plucked.

Thus, they teach the lessons of the past through the music of the future, beaming our past back at us through vintage TV sets and state-of-the-art modern video projection devices. In May 2013, Public Service Broadcasting released its debut album, appropriately called Inform – Educate – Entertain. These songs of optimistic aspiration – informing about the British night mail train routes, the stalwart public resolve during the London Blitz, an ode to the Spitfire fighter plane – appeared in many UK best-of-the-year lists. In early 2015, this especially British high-concept duo will release their new album The Race For Space.

Fri @ 8.00pm Internode Centre Stage Performing as ‘Buena Vista Sessions’ feat.

Jesus “Aguaje” Ramos & Barbarito Torres plus special guest Omara Portuondo

Fri @ 5.00pm

Fri @ 11.00pm

Sat @ 3.00pm, 5.00pm & 7.00pm

Sun @ 11.00pm

Sun @ 4.00pm

Sat @ 10.00pm

Internode Centre Stage

Mon @ 2.00pm, 4.00pm & 6.00pm Takes place near the Coopers Garden Bar

Speakers Corner 7 Stage 2

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Ramzi Aburedwan

Robert Forster with Jherek Bischoff and the Zephyr Quartet

Rufus Wainwright

~ Palestine ~

~ Australia ~

~ Canada ~

A virtuoso of the violin and the Palestinian long-necked bouzouki, Ramzi Aburedwan tells the heartfelt story of modern Palestine through searing instrumental pieces that embrace deep emotional and historical threads. Ramzi was born in Bethlehem in 1979 and grew up in the Al’ Amari refugee camp in Ramallah, where his family had been forcibly relocated in 1948. During the first intifada (1987/1992), the violence and hostile occupation greatly affected his childhood; a famous photograph of eight-tear-old Ramzi throwing stones at an Israeli tank became an iconic image of the conflict. However, at 16 he participated in a music workshop that revealed his innate talent and changed his life. He travelled to France, studying at the National Conservatory of Angers from 1998 to 2005, then retuned home to lead the esteemed Palestine National Ensemble of Arabic Music. Ramzi now splits his career among many projects – as a concert performer, bandleader of Ensemble Dal’Ouna (a group dedicated to Palestinian music and causes), musical director of the Palestine National Arabic Music Ensemble, composer and arranger. He often performs Western classical music as a soloist with ensembles and orchestras, and has created the Al Kamandjâti Association that brings music education to Palestinian children in refugee camps.

As a founding member of much loved Brisbane group The Go-Betweens, Robert Forster built a glowing reputation as one of Australia’s most astute and clever songwriters. Now, for this very special show, Robert presents a sparkling cross section of his catalogue – old, recent, borrowed, and new – with multiinstrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer Jherek Bischoff and awardwinning Adelaide string ensemble the Zephyr Quartet. In the four decades since his emergence, Robert has built an enviable cannon of songwriting credits, having released nine albums with The Go-Betweens and four solo albums of original material. His most recent solo album, The Evangelist, released in 2008, received 4 and 5 star reviews across the world and was nominated as one of the albums of the year by influential Uncut magazine in the UK. His influence in contemporary music extends to the written word, as Robert began writing music criticism for The Monthly magazine in 2005, and the following year was awarded the prestigious Pascal Prize for Critical Writing. His work has also been anthologised in the New York-edited Best Music Writing 2007, and The Best Australian Essays 2009, and in 2010, Robert released his first book, The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll.

Praised for his genuine originality, Rufus Wainwright is one of the great male vocalists and songwriters of his generation.

The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer songwriter has released seven studio albums, three DVDs and three live albums.

Rufus, the son of folk singers Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and the brother of Martha Wainwright, has achieved his success by carving out his own singular sound in the worlds of rock, opera, theater, dance and film. He has collaborated with Elton John, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, the Pet Shop Boys, producer Mark Ronson and sung duet on the title track of Robbie Williams’ latest album, Swings Both Ways. Rufus has performed many notable shows with some of the world’s best orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra playing a selection of his own songs and his Shakespearean Sonnets. Rufus has composed the music and 11 original songs for a theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare‘s Sonnets with noted director Robert Wilson at the Berliner Ensemble. He was commissioned to orchestrate 5 of these songs to a large orchestral song cycle which premiered with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in November 2010.

Sat @ 4.00pm

Sat @ 3.00pm

Fri @ 10.00pm

Sun @ 2.00pm [w] Mon @ 2.00pm

Zoo Stage Moreton Bay Stage Stage 3

Mon @ 5.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage Zoo Stage

Internode Centre Stage

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Sharon Van Etten

Sinéad O’Connor

Smashed

~ USA ~

~ Ireland ~

~ UK ~

The deliberate, strident voice of New Yorker Sharon Van Etten earned great attention through her 2012 breakthrough album Tramp. Edgy, stark and confident, her cagy pop songs swell inside a spare, open sound, although the pared back austerity is splashed with colourful vocal harmonies.

Her new album Are We There, made with veteran music producer Stewart Lerman, has sparked a new awareness in her music. She sings of the nature of desire, memory, of being lost, emptiness, of promises and loyalty, fear and change, of healing and the true self, violence and sanctuary, waiting, and silence. She never shies away from even the most personally painful narratives in songs dealing with seemingly impossible decisions, anticipation and then resolution. Her songs are heartfelt without being overly earnest, epic without seeming overwrought. Her poetry is plainspoken but not overt, and her elegant voice is wrapped in a foil of rasp and sorrow. The intimacy and vulnerability of these songs, in which lyrics bare the trials and scars of her relationships, often prompt people to approach her after shows to unburden their sorrows. “One out of four people will tell me a story,” Sharon explains, “which is great because it helps me feel that people can talk to me as a person”.

As a peerless singer and challenging songwriter, Sinéad O’Connor creates unique emotional snapshots. As a strident voice in popular culture, she bravely, unceasingly challenges the status quo.

Most importantly, through 10 albums released since 1987, she has developed as an artist of particular dexterity, producing mighty musical testaments to the indomitability of the human spirit. When she first appeared 30 years ago as a teenage waif, Sinéad won immediate attention for her prodigious songwriting skills and soaring, spectral voice. Curiously, her music connected to Ireland’s dusty, mystical past, yet she stood resolutely as a punk iconoclast, violently breaking from tradition. This musical tension took flight in such anthems as crunching new wave rocker Mandinka and her tearstained, multiplatinum-selling version of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she fearlessly crossed musical genres, reimagining standards in the styles of classic jazz, Irish folk and Jamaican roots music. She is enjoying a rich vein of form with the album I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss, a deliciously fresh collection of pop songs focused on romantic love, while her visceral live performances continue to set new standards of feminine intensity in rock music.

Ensemble juggling seems a ludicrous proposition – unless you’re supremely talented. Add a comedic edge, the elegant dance of gymnastic movement and a devilish sense of mischief to proceedings, and the performances of Gandini Juggling get seriously perilous yet absolutely compelling for a disbelieving audience.

Gandini Juggling was formed in 1992 by world-renowned juggler Sean Gandini and champion rhythmic gymnast Kati Ylä-Hokkala. They pioneered the fusion of contemporary dance with mathematical notations of juggling to create a daring new form of theatre. Ferociously prolific, the company is constantly creating new works that have reinvigorated juggling for the 21st Century. These radical fusions of art, juggling and circus transcends cultural barriers, and have enjoyed world-wide success. Gandini Juggling’s latest show, Smashed, is a bold collision of the company’s many talents – a mad tea party that brings together 80 apples, nine performers and four crockery sets. Inspired by the work of the great choreographer Pina Bausch, Smashed presents a series of nostalgic filmic scenes that explore the effects of forbidden fruit – conflict, lost love, strained relationships, and the quaint ritual of afternoon tea. It’s a curious ensemble piece that tells a strange but enticing story, unraveling personalities as apples are tossed in unison and crockery precariously juggled. It’s a smash hit.

Fri @ 9.00pm

Mon @ 9.00pm

Sat @ 2.00pm & 3.00pm

Stage 3

Internode Centre Stage

Zoo Plaza

This performance takes place as 2 x 30 minute performances.

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Soil & “Pimp” Sessions

Sóley

Tara Tiba

~ Japan ~

~ Iceland ~

~ Iran / Australia ~

Tapping into a new vein of Japanese jazz laced with sass, attitude and extravagant costume style, six-piece Soil & “Pimp” Sessions breaks all the jazz rules. The group’s pulsating live performances are sparked by frontman Shacho (selfproclaimed agitator, also known as The President), Motoharu (sax), Tabu Zombie (trumpet), Josei (piano), Akita Goldman (bass) and Midorin (drums). Their brand of jazz is a little rough around the edges, yet they’ve won respect for bringing energy and sweat to the stage. “They are great musicians,” says UK jazz star Jamie Cullum, who collaborated with Soil & “Pimp” Sessions at the 2007 BBC Electric Proms. “Mind you, it’s not always clear what exactly is going on.” The band members originally met at a club event in Tokyo in 2001, when the Tokyo club scene was dominated by DJs. Soil & “Pimp” Sessions instantly shook the scene, calling its aggressive alternative sound Death Jazz.

British DJ Gilles Peterson invited the band to the UK in 2005, to perform on his program, and a year later, the first album Pimp Master was released. Now its eighth album Circles is winning accolades, with the group playing major international festivals from Fuji Rock and Montreux Jazz Festival, to Glastonbury and Java Jazz in Indonesia.

With songs celebrated for their dream-like quality and dark surrealism, Icelandic composer/musician/singer Sóley has emerged as a charismatic voice in modern indie pop – a voice that, until five years ago, she didn’t even consider a proper singing voice. The bespectacled multiinstrumentalist from Hafnarfjorour in Iceland, now in her mid-twenties, had been touring around the world with the seven-piece Icelandic indie-folk band Seabear, playing keyboards. Slowly, she also started to sing, but says it took a while to get used to the sound of her own voice.

Now Sóley Stefánsdóttir performs delicate electronic pop on her own, building soundscapes with loops, keyboards and delay pedals. Inspired by Sigur Rós and Mum, she began making music in her teens, and studied piano and composition at the Icelandic Art Academy in 2007.

Since Sóley’s first solo release Theater Island EP in 2010 and follow-up album We Sink in 2011, she has also issued a stark piano album in 2014, titled Kromantik.

Her delicate melodies and beautifully dark lyrics, sung mostly in English, evoke soundtracks to lucid dreams and childhood nightmares that wouldn’t be out of place in the dark fairytale world of Tim Burton.

Praised as one of Iran’s most unique new voices, Tara Tiba mesmerises audiences with her extraordinary vocal technique and striking jazzy take on Persian music. Born in Tehran in 1984, soon after female singers were prohibited from performing in public, Tara began studying Western classical piano at the age of nine, then developed an interest in Persian music at 16. She embarked on seven years of vocal training in the classical Persian Radif system under prominent singer Hengameh Akhavan. Although she studied and graduated as an architect, Tara has devoted herself to music and in 2010 recorded Mooness, seven songs written with award winning pianist/composer Hooshyar Khayam. However, it was never released due to Iran’s continuing prohibition of female singers in the public domain. Moving to Perth in 2012, Tara undertook a jazz course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and soon formed her own band featuring both Persian classical and jazz musicians: Reza Mirzaei on guitar and saz (a Middle Eastern long-neck lute), Laura Corney on saxophones, Kate Pass on double bass and drummer Alex Reid. Her debut album, A Persian Dream, released in 2014, features improvisations of classical Persian poetry

by Rumi, Baba Taher and Hafez, with new arrangements of traditional tunes, original compositions and shades of jazz with a Persian twist.

Fri @ 11.10pm

Sat @ 5.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage

Fri @ 9.00pm

Sun @ 4.00pm

Speakers Corner 7

Sun @ 3.00pm

Stage 2

Moreton Bay Stage Zoo Stage

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The Gloaming

The Painted Ladies

Theo Parrish

~ Ireland ~

~ Australia ~

~ USA ~

When Irish music super group The Gloaming first assembled in early 2011, it brought together five extraordinary musicians eager to explore a new path in traditional music. Driven by the sound of enigmatic Irish fiddlers Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Martin Hayes, The Gloaming also boasts the exalted voice of Iarla Ó Lionáird, familiar as the charismatic singer at the helm of Afro Celt Sound System. Add to this the plaintive strumming of Chicago guitarist Dennis Cahill (born to Irish parents from County Kerry) and gifted pianist Thomas Bartlett (also known as Doveman) from the New York contemporary music scene, where he has worked with Antony & the Johnsons, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, The National and Yoko Ono. While each virtuoso has successful individual careers, they recognise a shared musical aesthetic that forms a sound as The Gloaming that is both ancient and utterly new, embracing haunting sean-nós traditional songs to rousing instrumental medleys and sparse, haunting airs. After an initial tour of Ireland in August 2011, the group reassembled in mid-2013 for concerts in London, Amsterdam, Paris and New York, flying high on the critical acclaim of its first, self-titled album that was hailed for taking unmistakably Irish music in captivating new directions.

The first Australian black protest album, recorded by inmate Vic Simms in Bathurst Gaol in 1973, has been thrust back in the spotlight by a new generation of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Vic’s poignant country soul album The Loner was heard by Brisbane Indigenous singer/songwriter Luke Peacock, who realised this Australian gem has been sadly overlooked. When Vic recorded the original album inside the prison’s kitchen, he already had a significant history of making music: In 1958, aged 12, Vic joined Col Joye and his Joy Boys, then released a few solo singles that didn’t sell. Soon he hit hard times, and by 1968, aged 22, was in Bathurst Gaol.

A charity group called the Robin Hood Foundation heard Vic play an old guitar and organised a recording session (Johnny Cash’s Live at San Quentin had just been a hit) but again it didn’t sell. Forty years later, Luke got in contact with Vic and got his blessing to revive the music. Luke enlisted the Medics from Cairns, You Am I drummer Rusty Hopkinson as producer and many notable guests for the recordings – Ed Kuepper, Paul Kelly, Sue Ray, Roger Knox.

Now The Painted Ladies bring this music to the stage, reviving a message as poignant today as it was in 1973.

Influential DJ Theo Parrish grew up on Chicago house parties, and the echoes of his parents’ records by Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, George Gershwin, Bob Marley, as well as the music of his uncle, jazz musician Dexter Sims. He began spinning and producing tracks in 1986, at the age of 13, then at art school in Kansas City he concentrated on Sound Sculpture, a form of orchestration using live instruments, looped recordings, the human voice and sound generation devices. Theo then moved to Detroit, where his eclectic DJ sets in the late 1990s became the stuff of legend. As he became heavily involved in Detroit’s underground music scene, Theo helped spawn a resurgence of dance classic selections among local DJs. His philosophy also became influential, that “love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or DJ. With that love, sampling can become a tribute; an expansion on ideas long forgotten, reconstruction, collage. It can turn a few hours of selection into essential history.” Theo has recorded under his own name and with Rick Wilhite, Marcellus Malik Pittman and Kenneth Dixon Jnr as 3 Chairs, along with his famed re-edits of old disco, funk and soul records.

Mon @ 4.00pm

Fri @ 6.00pm

Sat @ 11.00pm

Stage 3

Sat @ 1.00pm [w] Sat @ 7.00pm

Internode Centre Stage Moreton Bay Stage Stage 3

Speakers Corner 7

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Timberwolf

Tjintu Desert Band

Toumani & Sidiki Diabate

~ Australia ~

~ Australia ~

~ Mali ~

Timberwolf – the modern folk project of 22-year-old singer Adelaide songwriter Chris Panousakis – has caused an unexpected stir for the music’s vibrancy and easy appeal. With strong roots in ‘60s and ‘70s blues and rock meshed into a soulful strain of nu-folk, the swell of interest in Timberwolf has been immediate. His first home-recorded single, Garden, reached No 1 on the Triple J Unearthed Roots Chart in January 2013, and featured in consecutive weeks on Triple J’s Roots N All program.

Riding on the back of this strong, instant success, Timberwolf put his physiotherapy career on the backburner, issued his debut EP Man & Moon (released in 2013) and became active on the national gig circuit.

Enthusiastic receptions enabled Timberwolf to start 2014 with a bang, heralded by RIPITUP magazine as one of Adelaide’s hot six local artists. Timberwolf then released his Flux EP (produced by Mark Myers, of The Middle East) in late 2014 and touring intensified. When he sings, the whole room goes silent, and with the pulsating support of his band on stage – built around the tight rhythm section of bassist Dom Symes and drummer Kaurna Cronin – Timberwolf has become one of the hot live drawcards in Australia.

Desert reggae is blowing on the hot winds out of Ikuntji, 250km west of Alice Springs, propelling one of Central Australia’s most exciting bands. Tjintu Desert Band combine funk, rock, reggae and dub grooves, and sing in the Aboriginal language of Luritja to create a distinct desert sound that captures its wide-open spaces, brutal beauty and formidable darkness. Having performed as the Sunshine Reggae Band for almost 15 years, the collective of Joseph and Jeffery Zimran, Terry Marshall, Aaron Sharpe and Kieran Multa changed their band name to Tjintu (which means Sunshine in Luritja language) to represent a tough sound combining powerful tribal choruses with roots and electric rock reggae riffs atop rumbling dub bass. The band’s debut album, Tjamuku Ngurra, released in March 2014, triggered nominations for the NT Song of the Year Awards and Best New Talent in the National Indigenous Music Awards. Importantly, the album comes with a 16-page booklet of lyrics in Luritja and their English translations, along with panoramic photos of the band’s home community, with which the band hopes to share its culture and connection to the land. Their sound and performances promote a sense of both country and soul – the country they live in and the soul of their people.

More than any other kora player, Toumani Diabate has brought this unique 21-string West African harp to global attention. As an instrumental virtuoso, band leader, teacher, musical conservationist and composer, he represents a new generation of Malian griots modernising their musical tradition while still honouring it. Born into an exceptional musical family – 71 continuous generations of kora players – Toumani was a self-taught child prodigy, playing kora at the age of five, making his public debut at 13, and at 21 he recorded his first solo kora album, Kaira, without retakes in a single afternoon. His influences are sourced from many cultures – Indian classical music, Spanish flamenco, radical free jazz with trombonist Roswell Rudd, producing a wild take on Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. His collaborations are brave and exciting – with Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keita, bluesman Taj Mahal, Björk, guitar wizard Ali Farka Touré, and Gorillaz/Blur frontman Damon Albarn. He wowed WOMADelaide audiences in 2008, performing with his Symmetric Orchestra, but this year will be joined by his eldest son Sidiki – a griot, master kora player and Hip-Hop star in Mali. The album they recently recorded together addresses the jihadist takeover in Mali, where bans on music were imposed in northern regions, and their songs express weighty concerns with exhilarating energy and joyful optimism.

Mon @ 6.00pm

Sat @ 1.00pm

Sat @ 9.00pm

Stage 3

Sun @ 4.00pm

Stage 2

Speakers Corner 7

Sun @ 5.00pm

Stage 2 Zoo Stage

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Typhoon 台风

Willow Beats

Youssou N’Dour

~ Australia /China ~

~ Australia ~

~ Senegal ~

Startlingly original, Typhoon 台风 presents new Asia Pacific music with a line-up that is eclectic, unexpected and truly innovative.

Hobart-based Brian Ritchie (formerly with The Violent Femmes, playing shakuhachi and acoustic bass guitar) and acclaimed concert pianist Michael Kieran Harvey team with three Chinese artists based in Shanghai – Xie Yu Dan (pipa), Ma Jia Jun (erhu) and animator Zeng Yi Gang, noted for his award-winning short animation Chicken Wants to Fly. As Typhoon 台风, they stretch the boundaries of a contemporary music ensemble, exploring both classical and contemporary compositions in concert while simultaneously screening a short animation prepared by Zeng Yi Gang, set to an improvised score created in the moment by the ensemble. Typhoon was developed as part of the Reckless Moments independent creative futures initiative, launched in March-April 2005 by Madam Fu Ying, now one of China’s Vice Foreign Ministers, and former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. This initiative has realised 15 new intercultural collaborations between Australian and Chinese artists, spanning music, dance, drama, opera, circus, children’s theatre and animation. Typhoon, produced by Barry Plews and Hu He, presented its first concerts in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Nanjing in December 2013, and is giving its first Australian concerts in March 2015.

The dreamy soundscape laid down by Willow Beats is the product of a close family connection. Narayana Johnson provides the tribal beats, drives heavy bass off his synths and dreams up the lush, layered production, while his niece Kalyani Mumtaz provides ethereal vocals and keyboards. It started in 2011, when Narayana (son of the late singer/songwriter Wally Johnson, who co-wrote the hit Give Me a Home Among the Gumtrees) was working on an electronica track and asked Kalyani to lay down some vocals. The contrast between Kalyani’s gently flowing voice and the track’s heavy bass made perfect sense, and inspired them to keep collaborating and creating. Their music definitely has an airy fantasy feel (the Melbourne duo cite JRR Tolkien as an influence) as they try to forge mystical sounds that transport the listener to a different world. Willow Beats’ massive self-released Alchemy EP – championed by Triple J Unearthed – led to even greater national interest in the featherweight sounds of their hit single Blue in 2014. It led to national live dates that ignited dance festival crowds, responding to Willow Beats twisting and blending strong tribal rhythms with lyrics of hope and light, creating a delicate, enveloping sound that resonates powerfully.

For 30 years, Youssou N’Dour has been a mesmerising beacon within African music.

His golden tenor voice resonates with power and purpose to not only present the ancient groit traditions of Senegal in a fresh light but also carry strident political and social messages across Africa to the wider world. A prodigy in his youth, having performed from the age of 12, Youssou now defines the essence of West African groove through his engaging take on mbalax – a complex blend of traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban rhythmic flavour that became absorbed into Senegal’s music from the 1940s. Youssou embraced this mix within his band Super Etoile de Dakar, together with the searing influences of James Brown and Jimi Hendrix that fired the imagination of his generation, but also with traditional dancers and the chattering talking drum presenting an unmistakable African flavour.

Youssou is revered among western musicians, having collaborated with a galaxy of stars: Peter Gabriel, Sting, Neneh Cherry, Wyclef Jean, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tracy Chapman, Branford Marsalis, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Dido. He also puts his fame to work by pulling focus on issues in Africa, from Amnesty International and UNICEF projects to the fight against malaria, and since 2007 he has been a member of the World Future Council.

Sat @ 11.30pm

Fri @ 7.00pm

Stage 3

Speakers Corner 7

Sat @ 4.00pm [aic] Sun @ 9.30pm

Speakers Corner 6

Internode Centre Stage

Brought to you by The Music.

As night falls, head to the Electrolounge at Speaker’s Corner and immerse yourself in the sounds of four of Adelaide’s foremost electronic artists.

Accompanied each night by the visual creations of VJ Levon Hudson, the comfortable chillout lounge is perfectly accompanied by the nearby Speakers Corner bar, food stalls and café.

Sebastian Vivian

Urtekk

Brokers

How Green

22 year old Sebastian Vivian brings forward the glitches, lush synths and beats well known to fans of Slamagotchi, blending the like with an orchestral instrumentation to create soundscapes for a textural, cinematic experience.

A seasoned beat-smith with a prolific output, Sebastian has quickly established himself as a significant electronic artist.

Four-piece live act, URTEKK, have a mainstay focus positioned firmly at the dance floor. With catchy leads, rich chords, tribal beats and driving bass, imagine the vibes of a techno club - but played with a live band. Having found praise from various national radio and media outlets, URTEKK is paving it’s way into the live experimental, dance and rave circuits.

Jazz meets electronica in this ambitious fusion ensemble that combines elements of performance jazz, RnB, Hip-Hop, ambient and pop influences. The Adelaide quartet’s unique live show comprises a mix of instrumentation and electronics, filling the stage with drum machines, saxophone, acoustic drums, trumpet, guitar, bass, vocals and samplers.

Colorful, psychedelic, unpredictable beats define How Green, the curiously artistic electronic music project of Adelaide’s Jesse Schuppan.

Having produced and performed for the past four years, How Green’s woozy, off-kilter experimental electronica has a strong commitment to melody, yet also a consciousnessaltering dreaminess tinged with simple beauty and wit.

Fri @ 10.00pm Speakers Corner 6

Sat @ 10.00pm Speakers Corner 6

Sun @ 9:30 Speakers Corner 6

Mon @ 9:00pm Speakers Corner 6

Levon Hudson Levon has been performing live visuals for clubs, bands and other artistic ventures for over 10 years. His most recent work was with the Australian Dance Theatre company on their Adelaide Festival show ‘Proximity’ and with large scale projection gurus Illuminart on multiple projects. His skill as a visual effects designer and editor has also seen him work on such high profile films as The Great Gatsby and Wolverine.

Levon Hudson visuals will be accompanying each of the Electrolounge acts.

Presented by The Music and in association with Pilot Records.

Botanic Park is adjacent to Adelaide Botanic Garden and rich in historical and cultural significance. Renowned for the towering plane trees flanking its boundary to the north and south, the park serves as a place of relaxation and leisure for visitors, and as an arboretum of some of the world’s finest tree specimens.

Over time Botanic Park, like Adelaide Botanic Garden, has undergone the transformation of its collections, design and layout. These changes are evident in the stunning new exhibition Postcards from the Edge of the City, on display in the Santos Museum of Economic Botany at Adelaide Botanic Garden. The exhibition showcases 300 Edwardian-era postcards sent between 1901 and 1914, and presents historical views of Adelaide Botanic Garden and Botanic Park.

Together Adelaide Botanic Garden and Botanic Park attract well over one and a half million visitors annually and many people have memories of time spent in these tranquil locations. Through the handwritten messages presented in Postcards from the Edge of the City we learn about the visitor experience of those more than 100 years ago.

A visit to the free exhibition is one of many ways you can discover Adelaide’s most frequented cultural and scientific institution which provides millions of people with peace, beauty and tranquillity every year.

Stephen Forbes Director, Botanic Gardens of South Australia

Architects of Air ~ UK ~

Exxopolis Architects of Air construct gigantic inflated sculptures that people enter to marvel at the beauty of light and colour concealed within.

Since 1992, these exotic luminaria have bedazzled more than 2 million visitors in 40 countries.

Exxopolis is the magnificent structure with soaring 10-metre domes that will provide glowing moments of illuminating calm.

Presented in association with Insite Arts.

Fri @ 4.30–7.00pm Sat, Sun & Mon @ 11.00am–7.00pm AoA will then be inflated and lit from the inside until midnight each night.

The presentation of Architects of Air’s EXXOPOLIS installation has been made possible through the generous support of Simon Hackett through the Hackett foundation.

Artonik ~ France/India ~

The Colour of Time As the sun begins to set on each day of the festival it is accompanied by a rainbow eruption of powder and dance with The Colour of Time reinventing India’s traditional Holi festival. Dancers and musicians lead the public along a choreographed parade towards a huge finale, where people throw brilliant shades of gulal powder in the air to joyfully celebrate unity, acceptance and diversity.

Fri & Sat @ 6.10pm Sun & Mon @ 5.10pm Starts by the Holy Cow chai tent.

Learn the dance steps and join in at womadelaide.com.au

Not only do children under 12 get free entry to WOMADelaide, they also have KIDZONE – their very own dedicated world of child-friendly fun on the WOMAD site. Follow the smiles and laughter to Kidzone just behind the giant coloured WOMAD word installation and you’ll find full days of wonderful FREE programmed entertainment, cool activities, immersive theatre, science discoveries, story telling, dress ups, face painting, bouncy things and much more.

Andy Griffiths

Dreamstore

~ Australia ~

~ Australia ~

Join one of Australia’s most popular and adored children’s authors – Andy Griffiths – for Treehouse story sessions on Saturday, Sunday and Monday at WOMADelaide. The award-winning author has written more than 25 hilarious books including the JUST! books, The Day My Bum Went Psycho and The Treehouse series. Put simply, when it comes to children’s literature in Australia, Andy Griffith is a rock-star.

Dreamstore is an ever expanding shop of dreams where kids at WOMADelaide will bottle, label, shelve and share their dreams for everyone to see. Gradually the Dreamstore shelves fill with the dreams, hopes and wishes of WOMADelaide’s children for all to see in window shopping sessions. And to complete the dream transaction, each child can take home a photo record of their ‘Dreamproduct’ at the Dreamstore checkout.

Reading: Sat, Sun & Mon @ 3.00pm Signing: Sat, Sun & Mon @ 3.30pm

Walk through: Sat, Sun & Mon @ 12.00 noon, 2.00pm & 4.15pm Workshop 1: Sat, Sun & Mon @ 1.15pm Workshop 2: Sat, Sun & Mon @ 3.30pm Workshop 3: Sat, Sun & Mon @ 5.30pm

SA Musuem Explorer’s Tent ~ Australia ~

Artistic Workshops Carclew presents free and creative workshops for children aged 5-12 years in WOMADelaide’s KidZone.

The fabulous and fascinating explorers tent returns to WOMADelaide with new hands-on science discoveries, activities and entertainment for the whole family. Learning about our natural world has never been so much fun. The SA Museum Explorer’s Tent is an open interactive discovery centre operating between the hours of 12.00 noon-6.00pm. www.samuseum.sa.gov.au

Evelyn Roth’s Nylon Zoo ~ Australia ~

For over 40 years Carclew has offered high quality creative experience sand opportunities across a broad range of arts and cultural practice.

Through artistic programs delivered in metropolitan, regional and remote areas of South Australia, Carclew encourages children and young people to explore their creativity and develop a deeper awareness and appreciation of themselves, the arts and society. Carclew’s vision is for all South Australians to have a rewarding and lifelong relationship with the arts by inspiring creative development of children, young people and early career artists through innovative arts programs and policy. www.carclew.com.au

WORKSHOP TIMES 12.30–1.30pm • 1.45–2.45pm • 4.00–5.00pm • 5.15–6.15pm All four workshops run at any one time.

Evelyn Roth’s Nylon Zoo is an interactive children’s experience that has been entertaining children at WOMADelaide for nearly two decades. Each year Evelyn unveils amazing new giant inflatable artworks that children enter to listen to stories, dance, sing and enjoy dressing up in her colourful array of animal costumes. www.evelynroth.com Sat, Sun & Mon @ 12.00 noon

Adelaide Face Painters ~ Australia ~

Bring your kids along for free face painting on Saturday, Sunday and Monday between noon and 6pm – two areas are available; one for under 5s and the other for children aged 6 and above.

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Paper and Plastic Chandeliers ~ Quirky Crowns ~ Wishing Lanterns ~ Guatemalan Figures

Spinning Poi ~ Miniature Worlds ~ Candy Skull Masks ~ Fish Wind Socks

Miniature Worlds ~ Paper and Plastic Chandeliers ~ Guatemalan Figures ~ Candy Skull Masks

Please note that this service is for children only!

Sat, Sun & Mon @ 12.00 noon–6.00pm

Details correct at time of printing 15 February 2015 See on-site signage for further directions.

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What happens off the seven stages is as much a part of the remarkable WOMADelaide experience as what happens on them. Here’s a few gems to look out for in 2015.

ABC Radio National’s The Music Show live

SMASHED ~ UK ~

The Music Show records a special live outside broadcast at Speakers Corner on Saturday 7 March featuring interviews and performances from some of the festival’s stars. All valid pass holders are welcome to be a part of the audience entering via the Frome Road gate from 9.00am.

Global Village A highlight of WOMADelaide is its sensational array of more than 100 stalls offering international food, amazing arts and crafts, official festival merchandise and CDs. The Global Village is where you can eat, drink and shop around the world without leaving the park!

Hammocktime 891 ABC Adelaide One of the hits of the Adelaide Fringe is coming to WOMADelaide for some extra special performances around the park. Inspired by the work of the great choreographer Pina Bausch, Smashed is a mad tea party that brings together 80 apples, nine performers and four crockery sets in one spectacle of incredible juggling skills.

Sat @ 2.00pm & 3.00pm

Zoo Plaza

ABC 891 Adelaide’s Drive and Afternoon programs will be broadcasting live from WOMADelaide on Friday and Monday right next door to UniSA’s T-bar. Take a seat on the grass and enjoy Sonya Feldhoff and Michael Smyth interviewing some of WOMADelaide’s biggest stars.

Hammocktime invites you to pause, disconnect from technology and reconnect to yourself and your environment. Relax in a hammock while we take you through a 10 minute guided meditation (with a difference!) and stay for an extra 10 minutes of quiet time or conversation with your personal pause consultant.

Fri @ 4.30pm

Near the Pines

Sat, Sun & Mon @ 2.00pm Near the Pines

WoShop and Mr V Start your day with YOGA or a DANCE Whether it’s a dance or a downward dog, there’s no better way to get you in the mood for a perfect WOMADelaide day and night.

Just after the gates open on Saturday, Sunday and Monday you can join in free 1 hour yoga session or dance workshops.

Sat @ 1.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage

Sun @ 12 noon Moreton Bay Stage

& Speakers Corner Stage Mon @ 12 noon Moreton Bay Stage

& Speakers Corner Stage

From T-shirts and tea towels to stubbie holders to hoodies pick up all of your exclusive WOMADelaide merchandise and music. Mr V Music is also home to all artist CD signing sessions.

WOMADelaide is a food lover’s dream in a music, arts and dance paradise.

Coopers Beer Garden

Yalumba Bar

Hills Cider Bar

An Original Australian Beer Garden, with corrugated iron fences, flanking garden beds, timber seating, low voltage lighting and a Coopers living wall – the perfect place to kick back and enjoy a few Coopers Beers. Australia’s Original Pale Ale on tap at WOMADelaide.

Soak up the atmosphere from Yalumba’s sensational new Festival Garden – secure a coveted seat at the rooftop bar to gain an entirely new perspective of WOMADelaide or stay close to the action and relax at ground level. The best place to meet your friends for a wine – you can’t miss it!

Immerse yourself in the laid back atmosphere of the Hills Cider Bar and enjoy a refreshing cider with friends.

Created locally with minimal intervention from 100% fresh Adelaide Hills grown fruit, and absolutely nothing added; a true representation of real cider.

Internode Lounge Chill n’ Charge

UniSA / 891 ABC Adelaide T Bar

Gelista Luxury Gelato

The Internode lounge is the place to go to chill out on deck chairs, sofas, bean bags and banana lounges with an iced coffee and Gelati from Cibo Cafe, while you charge your phone. There’s even a free photo booth to take home your own WOMADelaide group pic.

Taste and enjoy authentic, exotic and traditional tea flavours sourced from around the world in the UniSA / 891 ABC Adelaide tea house. This oasis will conjure the aromas, colours, flavours and health benefits of one of the world’s favourite and enduring beverages, serving delicious T bar teas.

For the tastiest way cool down at WOMADelaide, check out Gelista’s artisan homemade gelato. The award winning South Australian brand’s ice cream contains no artificial colours or flavours and they have gluten free and dairy free taste sensations to choose from too. Delizioso!

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FRIDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Spandexx Ballet: The Colour of Time warm-up and dance workshop

World Percussion Discussion

Kalarippayat – Southern Indian Martial Hatha Yoga with Kalari Australia

~ Australia ~

Spandexx Ballet brings you full-throttle 80’s aerobics and dance classes, putting the fabulous back into fitness. As inspirational as ever, Spandexx Ballet will help teach you the moves to join in with Artonik’s The Colour of Time.

Fri @ 5.00pm

~ Australia ~

Hear a collaboration of Adelaide’s best drum corps as they take you through a workshop of powerful percussive examples in Drum Corp style. Featuring the Raiders and Cabra College drum lines and hosted

by Steve Todd.

Sun @ 1.00pm

In front of Stage 1

~ Australia ~

Kalarippayat (Kalari) is India’s ancient martial, meditational & medicinal tradition that evolved alongside Yoga & Ayurveda.

It is a complete system that teaches us to live & ground ourselves in the world.

Mon @ 1.00pm

Zoo Stage

Ramzi Aburedwan Workshop ~ Palestine ~

SATURDAY Cuba to Brazil with La Bomba ~ Cuba/Brazil ~

Shake, spin and sway the Afro Latino way with the energetic crew from La Bomba teaching an action packed dance workshop featuring fun Cuban dance styles from Rumba, Son and Salsa to the Brazilian Samba.

Sat @ 12 noon

~ Australia ~

Acoustic Song Circle w/ Bunna Lawrie (Coloured Stone), Roger Knox, Luke Peacock and Kahl Wallis (the Medics). Join us in the shade of the majestic Moreton Bay Fig trees to hear stories, conversations and songs from iconic contemporary Aboriginal songwriters – both Elders and the next generation.

Sat @ 1.00pm

Ramzi Aburedwan, bandleader of Ensemble Dal’Ouna and musical director of the Palestine National Arabic Music Ensemble is a passionate advocate for the musical education of his people and the advancement of Palestinian music and causes. Ramzi is a virtuoso on the violin as well as the bouzouk, a traditional Palestinian long-necked lute related to the Greek bouzouki and Turkish saz.

Sun @ 2.00pm

Moreton Bay Stage

Moreton Bay Stage

Luzmila Carpio – El presagio de los pajaros: Omen of birds ~ Bolivia ~

Birds are an integral part of Andean Quechua and Aymara cultures and Luzmila Carpio knows the languages of the birds.

Luzmila will introduce us to some charango guitar tricks and typical rhythms from the Andes plus share with us the secrets of the bird call.

Mon @ 2.00pm

Zoo Stage

Acoustic Song Circle with Bunna Lawrie (Coloured Stone), Roger Knox, Luke Peacock and Kahl Wallis (the Medics)

Zoo Stage

Spandexx Ballet: The Colour of Time warm-up and dance workshop ~ Australia ~

Spandexx Ballet brings you full-throttle 80’s aerobics and dance classes, putting the fabulous back into fitness. As inspirational as ever, Spandexx Ballet will help teach you the moves to join in with Artonik’s The Colour of Time.

Sun @ 1.00pm

Zoo Stage

Moreton Bay Stage

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SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

Workshop 3

How sustainable is your diet?

How to create an amazing outdoor playspace!

Eco-homes: Reducing waste, saving water, energy, money & the earth.

Participants: Simon Bryant, Dr Evangeline Mantzioris and Louisa Rose Host: Deb Tribe

Participants: Sarah Sutter and Sarah Boyd Host: Chris Daniels

Participants: Dr Robert Crocker and Dr Martin Freney Host: Rob Kelvin

In this workshop Simon Bryant will teach you how to make a delicious meal using sustainable and organic produce and why we should think more about our food choices. Joining Simon will be UniSA’s nutrition expert, Dr Evangeline Mantzioris to provide some of the science behind an organic and sustainable diet and Louisa Rose, Yalumba’s head of winemaking to give you the lowdown on organic and sustainable wine. At the end of the session, there will be a chance to have a taste and take home the recipe.

‘Nature Play’ (unstructured outdoor play) is an essential component of every child’s health and wellbeing, but the average Australian child spends less than two hours a day outside – less than our maximum security prisoners! Join Nature Play SA’s Sarah Sutter, HONK! Pop up Play’s Sarah Boyd and UniSA’s Prof Chris Daniels in a workshop full of tips, information and demonstrations on how to encourage your kids to spend more time playing outside through creating outdoor nature play spaces at home or at the local park. Don’t forget to bring your kids to play in our mini nature play space while you listen to the workshop!

This workshop will provide tips on how to reduce waste plus some innovative energy and water saving tips, ideas and demonstrations to help you start transforming your house into an eco-home. The workshop features UniSA’s Dr Robert Crocker, Director of Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Industrial Design lecturer Dr Martin Freney – who in 2003 completed the construction of his owner-built “eco” house with straw-bale walls, passive solar design and hot water, a reed-bed for recycling greywater, composting toilet, photovoltaic panels for electricity generation and non-toxic finishes.

Sat @ 12.00 noon

Sun @ 1.00pm

Mon @ 1.00pm

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Speakers Corner 6

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University of South Australia presents

The Planet Talks return to Speakers Corner with a line-up of stimulating and inspiring speakers from around the world.

Taking the WOMADelaide fans’ experience beyond discovering new sounds, sights and flavours, the sessions explore a range of new ideas and topics that deal with our sustainable relationship to the planet in six thought-provoking panel discussions.

Cecilia Woolford

Bob Brown

Vandana Shiva

(AUS): Founding member and Chief Executive of the award-winning South Australian Regional climate change body EPICCA.

(AUS): Former leader and founder of the Australian Greens and long standing environmental campaigner.

(INDIA): Internationally acclaimed environmentalist, activist, writer and recipient of the 2010 Sydney peace prize.

Emily Johnston

Paul Sutton

Sylvia Earle

Andrew Denton

Simran Sethi

Rod Quantock

(AUS): Award-winning, UniSA Health Sciences researcher and co-founder of Adelaide’s Science in the Pub.

(AUS/USA): UniSA’s awardwinning Urban Metabolism scientist and humanenvironment-sustainability problematic expert.

(USA): American Marine Science legend, pioneering oceanographer/explorer and Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society.

(AUS): Celebrated Australian media personality, presenter and producer.

(USA): Internationally renowned, award-winning sustainability journalist, communicator and educator.

(AUS): Australian comedy legend.

Paul Willis

Bronwyn Gillanders

Hannah Gadsby

Charlie Veron

Fiona Stanley

(AUS): RiAUS Director, Paleontologist, science journalist, educator and former presenter of ABC TV’s Catalyst program.

(AUS): Leading University of Adelaide Professor of Marine Biology and Director of The Environment Institute’s Marine Biology Program.

(AUS): Australian Comedian and ABC TV Presenter.

(AUS): Distinguished Australian marine scientist, Former Chief Scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, world authority on coral and author.

(AUS): 2003 Australian of the Year, celebrated epidemiologist and child health expert and founding director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.

Tim Jarvis

Bernie Hobbs

Robyn Williams

(AUS): WWF Australia Global Ambassador, Arctic Adventurer, environmental scientist and author.

(AUS): ABC Science educator, communicator and broadcaster.

(AUS): Australia’s foremost science broadcaster and presenter of ABC Radio National’s The Science Show and Ockham’s Razor.

Peter Langridge (AUS): International expert in plant genomics and food security.

The Planet Talks is proudly presented by the University of South Australia.

Generously supported by David & Claire Paradice.

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SATURDAY Seeds of hope

SUNDAY Science and satire

MONDAY Creating hope for our oceans and marine environments

Session 1

Session 3

Session 5

The silver lining in the cloud of climate change

I’m not a climate scientist but…

Repairing the blue heart of our planet

Speakers: Cecilia Woolford, Peter Langridge and Bob Brown Host: Robyn Williams

Speakers: Andrew Denton, Rod Quantock and Hannah Gadsby Host: Robyn Williams

Speakers: Sylvia Earle, Charlie Veron and Bronwyn Gillanders Host: Bernie Hobbs

Are our climate-altering activities hurtling us towards a bleak fate or is this the catalyst for a new era of environmentally sustainable ideas and innovation? Are we witnessing the dawning of an unstoppable wave of action and leadership?

Climate change is no laughing matter… or is it? Science or satire – How do we best communicate climate science and the urgency to act on the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced?

Marine experts have warned that we are in the middle of an unprecedented high-risk period of marine species extinction. On our watch the world’s oceans and natural wonders like The Great Barrier Reef have borne the brunt of a potent combination of over-fishing, pollution, unparalleled mining and farming run-offs, the acidification of the seas caused by increasing carbon dioxide emissions and the disruptive results of rising water temperatures.

According to our panelists we do have the ideas, innovation, motivation and people to give us the hope that we can and will respond to the challenge.

Listen to our visionary panel discuss the optimistic future they have seen emerging in business, agriculture, politics and society.

Do more people turn to Will Ferrell’s climate change YouTube clips or Al Gore pie charts and PowerPoint’s for the truth?

Are people more likely to share on social media Leigh Sales’ 7.30 interview with the world’s leading climate scientists or US political satirist John Oliver’s interviews with them? Who makes more sense of carbon politics, Andrew Bolt or Shaun Micallef?

All will be revealed. Sit back and listen to the (comedy) experts.

Sat @ 2.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Sun @ 3.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Our panel, three highly regarded marine scientists, discuss the vast challenge ahead to reverse these dire predictions for our blue heart. As Sylvia Earle herself said.

“Life depends on the ocean, and to save it we must love it.”

Mon @ 3.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Session 2

Session 4

Session 6

Valuing our planet

Can human beings be well when the planet is sick?

Creating hope

Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Paul Sutton and Tim Jarvis Host: Robyn Williams

Speakers: Paul Willis, Emily Johnston and Fiona Stanley Host: Bernie Hobbs

Speakers: Simran Sethi in conversation with Sylvia Earle Host: Bernie Hobbs

A famous native American proverb says “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.”

Is health the forgotten latecomer to climate change? The change in global temperatures is already causing significant stresses on human populations and we’ll need to adapt to a hotter climate regardless of successful emissions reductions. What is the impact likely to be and how might we mitigate it?

Simran Sethi and Sylvia Earle are two of the world’s most inspiring environmental messengers. Their mission is both clear and hopeful – to inspire us all to take responsibility for, and play a role in creating a better future for the earth for all generations to come.

The panel’s three leaders challenge this pessimistic prediction by discussing values – financial and what we love and care about – that we place on our land, food and water.

They will range across themes including seed democracy, urbanisation and land management and what this means for the health of the planet and ourselves.

Sat @ 6.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Our panel of health and science experts discuss what climate change means to our health and well-being.

Sun @ 5.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Listen to two of the world’s eco-heroes discuss their hopes and dreams for the planet.

Mon @ 5.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

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Proudly presented by SMEG

For over a decade Taste the World has celebrated the delicious food, fascinating cultures and moving stories from the hearts and homelands of WOMADelaide’s artists.

FRIDAY

SUNDAY

6.00pm ~ Meeta Pandit (India)

1.00pm ~ Balkan Beat Box (Tel Aviv/Brooklyn)

8.00pm ~ Jock Zonfrillo from Street in the Park

3.00pm ~ Maurice Bade from Criolo (Brazil) 5.00pm ~ Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (Italy) 7.00pm ~ Jupiter Bokondji (Congo)

SATURDAY If you love music and food, don’t miss this year’s four-day adventure around the culinary world of WOMAD hosted by local food legend Rosa Matto.

12 noon ~ Tara Tiba (Aus/Iran)

MONDAY

2.00pm ~ Che Sudaka (Spain/ Arg)

1.00pm ~ Jambinai (Korea)

4.00pm ~ Robyn Hitchcock (UK)

3.00pm ~ Flavia Coelho (Brazil)

6.00pm ~ Jherek Bischoff (USA) - vegan

5.00pm ~ Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania)

8.00pm ~ Ramzi Aburedwan (Palestine)

7.00pm ~ Luzmila Carpio (Bovilia)

Taste The World Restaurant Nestled amongst the beautiful trees of Botanic Park and surrounded by the sights, sounds and sensations of the WOMADelaide universe you will find a brand new culinary experience - the Street in The Park Taste The World Restaurant.

Opening Times Friday: 6.30–9.30pm Saturday: 12.30–10.00pm Sunday: 1.00–9.30pm Monday: 12.30–9.30pm

Drop by and book your table

Helmed by one of Australia’s most exciting chefs, Jock Zonfrillo, the gastronomic mastermind behind Adelaide’s celebrated foodie havens Street ADL and Orana, the restaurant will offer dedicated sit-down lunch and dinner sessions for each of the four days of the festival. Patrons will be treated to a variety of specialised street food dishes inspired by the countries and cultures of WOMADelaide artists complemented by full table service, matched wines, and luxury festival dining crockery, cutlery and glassware.

“WOMADelaide brings such an eclectic mixture of incredible international talent to Adelaide. It’s such a great opportunity to explore and recreate the tastes and flavours of all those countries. At the heart of every culture is their street food and we have been creating new, one off dishes representing all the different countries attending.

We are closing restaurant Orana for four days as the whole team are involved to deliver a unique experience for the WOMADelaide guests.” Jock Zonfrillo

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FRIDAY Abdullah Ibrahim with Andrew Ford The elder statesman of South African Cape jazz and living legend Abdullah Ibrahim interviewed by the host of ABC Radio National’s Music Show, Andrew Ford.

Fri @ 8.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Bärra featuring Djalu Gurruwiwi and Gotye Bärra are the West wind travelling from Arnhem Land, they carry both the sacred song lines of Yolngu Elder Djalu and the modern voices of his peoples’ 60,000 year old culture. Gotye has been invited into Yolngu culture through a musical dialogue that transcends the limitations of spoken dialects. This unprecedented collaboration will feature in the upcoming film Baywara, 2 cultures unite in song.

Sat @ 7.30pm

SATURDAY Youssou N’Dour with Peter Garrett Peter Garrett interviews Youssou N’Dour.

Two charismatic individuals and passionate activists who have both made incredible contributions to the music industry and the world of politics. Join us for what will surely be an electric meeting of the minds.

Sat @ 4.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Moreton Bay

Music Meets Art Hosted by Systa bb with Luzmila Carpio, Lord Robbo (Astronomy Class) and DJ Spooky From the Gig to the Gallery & Beyond.

Music has the ability to touch us all.

Alongside painting, sculpture, literature and other art forms there is an ongoing dialogue where cross pollination of ideas contributes to new forms of expression, and new concepts are evolved and shared.

Sat @ 8.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

SUNDAY Buffy Sainte-Marie with Jane Cornwell Sunday 8 March is International Women’s Day. In recognition of this important date, lifelong activist, educator and visionary Native American pop star Buffy SainteMarie will sit down to talk about her life, her passions and her music.

Sun @ 7.15pm

Speakers Corner 6

MONDAY DJ Spooky’s Arctic Rhythms Originally commissioned by National Geographic, and inspired by a Sierra Club Aichilik rafting journey, Arctic Rhythms is the latest piece composed in Miller’s suite of music for the Arctic and Antarctica.

Arctic Rhythms illuminates the environmental issues faced by the Arctic Circle through an evocative multimedia experience. In this special performance and talk, Miller will DJ with string players and discuss his journeys and process with the audience.

Mon @ 7.00pm

Speakers Corner 6

Dr Vandana Shiva Having brought India’s critical agricultural problems to the attention of the world, Dr Vandana Shiva has led important economic and cultural battles for the ordinary people of India.

Navdanya, the national movement she founded in 1991 to protect the diversity of native seed, promote organic farming and fair trade, has helped conserve more than 3000 rice varieties and established 60 seed banks in 16 states across India, assisting more than 500,000 farmers.

Yet while Dr Shiva’s work resonates powerfully across India, the scientist continues to be very active internationally as a speaker and lecturer. “I consider this very important,” she insists. “We all live on one planet; we are all international citizens. We are all community and I believe these are our shared concerns.

It is both our responsibility and need to share the knowledge we have.”

Dr Shiva has witnessed the power of collective response to issues, especially against multi-national agricultural chemical companies that she targets for her most virulent criticism. “There are a handful of very powerful corporations that are damaging democracies, and we need one humanity to respond to that threat,” says Dr Shiva.

She says much of her activism is born from worry and concern about GMOs. “There are illusions being marketed, and these are not to improve food production, but to control food sales.” She points to how much more could be produced by crop diversity, and believes her tirades can help trigger change.

However, by being so outspoken and aggressive in her criticisms, Dr Shiva has become a target for vicious attacks on both her opinions and her credibility.

They have been personal and pointed, especially online, but she remains undaunted by such opposition. “The attacks have increased my resolve,” she says sternly. “I’m not lost amongst all the noise created on the Internet; rather it has forced me to concentrate on what is really important and what is at stake here.”

Ultimately, Dr Shiva’s stance shows that the scientific community is no longer benign and cloistered in research labs.

More scientists are becoming frontline media crusaders – and reaching far beyond their natural comfort zones.

“There are no cloisters any more,” says Dr Shiva. “We scientists now know that there is too much at stake, and so we have gone public with what we know.

“It takes great courage for a scientist to speak out in this way. Early on, I only wrote for scientific journals, but my sister asked me why I wasn’t reaching a wider audience by writing for newspapers.

I realised she was right – everyone needs this knowledge.”

Dr Shiva has found that addressing the non-intellectual audience is an ideal forum. “There are no egos to contend with, unlike the scientific community. I’ve found that there is great fragmentation within the knowledge community because there is great resistance to opening up and making themselves vulnerable, to accept thoughts that challenge their accepted views. A festival audience has no such prejudice. It’s refreshing.”

Dr Shiva is no stranger to Australia, having delivered a compelling address titled Growth = Poverty at the 2013 Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. She is looking forward to meeting the WOMADelaide audience, to generate further discussion. “I would be deprived the oxygen of knowledge if I was not talking and listening as a part of the international community.”

David Sly

Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club In 1998 an extraordinary group of elderly Cuban musicians – veterans form Cuban music’s golden age – took to the stage at Carnegie Hall in New York and played their hearts out in a concert that was both of the moment and a step back in time.

‘With the bittersweet delicacy of a classic bolero,’ sighed the New York Times, ‘the Buena Vista Social Club simultaneously celebrated the vitality and virtuosity of the musicians and mourned the era they embody.’

With over eight million records sold, the Buena Vista Social Club’s eponymous Grammy-winning 1997 album is the biggest selling world music album ever.

The disc, with its follow-up solo albums, made international stars out of the likes of Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo. An international audience developed a Cuba-mania that filled flights to Havana, inspired innumerable salsa dance classes and turned the BVSC into a global brand.

Just about everyone knew that the impish vocalist Ferrer (who died in 2005) had been shining shoes on the streets of Havana when he was recruited to join the recording of traditional Cuban songs that became the Buena Vista Social Club. The 91-year-old son maestro Company Segundo (died 2003) had played in some of the best Cuban bands in the 1920s and 30s.

That retired pianist Ruben Gonzalez (died 2003) had to overcome the effects of arthritis on fingers to play a style that Ry Cooder – who produced the BVSC album – liked to ‘a cross between Thelonius Monk and Felix the Cat’. That Omara Portuondo, the collective’s only woman, was hugely famous at home on the Caribbean island, where she’d long been dubbed ‘the fiancé of filin’, a sort of jazz-inspired version of bossa nova.

“Life has been very generous to me,” says Portuondo, 84. “I’m still touring. I’m still making records. I’ve dedicated my life to doing what I love. I owe so much to the guys from the Buena Vista line-up; we wanted our traditional music to live on and enchant the world, and this is what our tours achieved.”

Now, after more than a thousand shows involving more than forty musicians in various guises and combinations, this vibrant, multigenerational group is here at WOMADelaide to say thankyou, and goodbye. Bandleader and trombonist Jesus Aguaje Ramos helms a line-up that features several of those incomparable original members: trumpet player Manuel ‘Guajiro’ Mirabel.

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Greening Australia Australia’s largest environmental organisation, Greening Australia joined forces with WOMADelaide to offset the ecological footprint of the festival, with $2 from every WOMADelaide ticket purchased invested in native biodiverse tree plantings.

The WOMADelaide offset project was established 7 years ago in collaboration with Greening Australia. The plantings are managed and undertaken on approximately 65 hectares of private land in the Langhorne Creek region of South Australia that is home to many rare and threatened bird species including the Mallee Fowl and Mallee Emu-Wren. For more info on WOMADelaide’s offset project go to womadoffset.com To find out more about how you can reduce your ecological footprint visit www.greeningaustralia.org.au

Waste Minimisation Barbarito Torres, a master of the laud [lute]. Santiago de Cuba-based guitarist and singer Eliades Ochoa, in his trademark cowboy hat. And of course, veteran diva Omara Portuondo, whose scene-stealing duet with Ferrer in Wim Wenders’ 1999 BVSC documentary sealed her international reputation.

“The return to the music of the vintage era has been very good for younger Cuban musicians. Son, guajira and bolero, cha-cha-cha and danzon…” She counts off the styles on her fingers. “They got to discover the old way of playing and use it to go forward.”

Forward, back, cha-cha-cha: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club will have you moving to music that uplifts and soothes. “The world is in a state of constant stress and commotion,” says Portuondo. “It’s good to enjoy music that relaxes you and brings a smile to you face.”

Adios, then, Buena Vistas.

Adios, y muchas gracias.

Jane Cornwell

Sustainable waste management is an important part of the festival’s operating considerations with WOMADelaide’s waste management program being coordinated by Adelaide Green Clean, market leaders in the delivery of high quality and environmentally sustainable cleaning and waste management.

Working in partnership with SITA and Jeffries, Adelaide Green Clean provides a ‘zero waste’ solution to WOMADelaide by diverting waste away from landfill and into a sustainable pathway.

Only biodegradable and recyclable wastes are produced by festival goers. All cups, plates, crockery, serviettes and any items sold in packaging at WOMADelaide are fully biodegradable and segmented recycling and organic waste bins will be present throughout the park.

All organic waste generated at WOMADelaide is mulched by Jeffries, treated for composting and delivered back to and used by the Botanic Gardens.

Jeffries provides this mulch free of charge.

Importantly, Adelaide Green Clean are also helping to educate the WOMADelaide volunteer Green Team on our waste management pathways and reclamation efforts with guided tours of their processing facilities. The Green Team will then be on hand throughout the festival to help educate and direct patrons on WOMADelaide’s waste streams and recycling efforts.

Bike parking WOMADelaide encourages patrons attending the event to ride a bike. The festival offers staffed bike parks at each of the main entrances to accommodate more than 700 bikes.

Smoking We would like our patrons to be mindful of their health and the health of their fellow festival goers by not smoking during the festival.

If you smoke, please respect the people around you; do not smoke when in any crowd or near the stages and use a butt bin throughout the site provided by KESAB or a portable ashtray when you butt out (available from the WO Shop if you haven’t brought your own). Smoking is not allowed in front of the stages or the bars, on the wheelchair viewing platforms, in the Global Village food area or in KidZone. The stage MC’s will make announcements over the weekend, but if you are a smoker please help us by following these simple rules and avoid tense situations with your fellow festival-goers!

Help us look after the park Botanic Park is the ‘green heart’ of Adelaide – 34 hectares of century old trees, vast lawns and endangered flora. WOMADelaide is in the enviable position of having the privilege to stage the festival on these grounds. Please do not climb on the trees, hang anything from the branches or damage other flora.

In 2013, WOMADelaide was proudly the Winner of the Partnerships Project in the Premier’s Natural Resources Management Award for our relationship with Greening Australia.

WOMADELAIDE ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERS

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WOMAD WOMADelaide is always an exciting event for the WOMAD team, not only because it is a first chance to get a glimpse of the sun in the middle of the long cold British Winter, but it traditionally marks the start of the festival year for WOMAD. The bar is set high for all the other festivals, with the stunning location in Adelaide, the exceptional program that is always musically adventurous but traditionally brings more performance and theatricality to the event than our other festivals and of course, a chance to meet up with old friends among a sophisticated audience who are hungry for cultural adventure and new experiences.

There is plenty to satisfy that appetite this year with a feast of international talent to gorge upon. Sinead O’Connor and Youssou N’Dour build on their huge success as headliners at WOMAD UK and are joined by one of the Wainwright musical dynasty, Rufus. The rest of the world is as always extremely well represented and we would strongly recommend Jambinai of South Korea to experience something new.

Elsewhere there is a welcome return of Osadia – where art has quite literally gone to people’s heads as the crazy hairdressers from Barcelona make yours and their hair stand on end.

Cinema makes a welcome return with performances by New Zealand’s Live Live Cinema, a fabulous synergy between screen and live performance that looks at classic film genres and gives them a 21st century twist.

What is different this year for the WOMAD team is that WOMADelaide is no longer the start point of our year, as in February we took the festival to Chile for the first time, in what was also our first visit to South America. We expect this adventure to prove to be as successful as WOMADelaide and be a sensational addition to the WOMAD festival family.

Have a great weekend and a fantastic festival, we look forward to seeing you all again next year and who knows, maybe in one of our other exotic locations around the world!

The WOMAD Festival Team – UK.

WOMADelaide Foundation The WOMADelaide Foundation Ltd, is the non-profit entity charged with the annual presentation and development of the WOMADelaide festival.

The Foundation is listed on the Commonwealth Governments (ROCO), enabling donations to its Donations Fund to be fully tax deductible and such funds have been directed to foster and develop long-term educational activities and cultural exchange.

Since 2007 donations to this fund have enabled us to develop and present a range of special projects including the

Planet Talks Program, unique Indigenous projects and in 2014 The Spirit of India Fund was established in response to and in support of generous bequest by Mohindar Dhillon to support the ongoing presentation of Indian classical performance at the festival.

The Donation fund enables donors to support the Foundation and the festival programs by making a tax deductible donation via the DONATE page on our website or by emailing donations@womadelaide.com.au

Arts Projects Australia Established in 1997 the Event manager and Producer of WOMADelaide, produces, presents and tours a wide range of international performing arts projects with presenting partners in Hong Kong, Australia & New Zealand.

Recent tours have included Peter Brook’s production of The Suit, Ludovico Einaudi, Leo, Circolombia, The Royal Shakespeare’s The Rape Of Lucrece starring Camille O’Sullivan, Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief Encounter, Toumani & Sidiki Diabate, Live Live Cinema and Handspring Puppet Company’s UBU & the Truth Commission.

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How Sustainable is Your Diet?

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Paul Willis, Emily Johnston and Fiona Stanley

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