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WOMAD NZ Preview
What would be your ideal day? Learning to cook Sudani Voodoo Chicken in an interactive workshop? Lying on the grass watching a famous comedy duo? Perhaps it would be an evening of world class Irish folk music… or swaying to the beats of one...2 March 2011
Album Reviews
The Eastern - Arrows
Last year this Soulshine Reviewer leapt across the ditch to Aotearoa full of musical optimism after a couple of WOMAD New Zealand festivals and hours of listening to the likes of Kora, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Don McGlashan and Crowded House&helli...27 July 2010
Festival Reviews
WOMAD TARANAKI 2008 – New Plymouth, NZ
WOMAD New Zealand is held in the province of Taranaki on the west coast of the North Island. Overshadowed by Mt Taranaki, the town of New Plymouth wakes from its usual laid-back combination of rural and surf life to become a hive of colour and act...15 June 2008
Festival Reviews
WOMADelaide 2006
When superstar Peter Gabriel brought together Thomas Brooman and Bob Hooton in 1980 to organise a festival called WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) none of the trio could have expected the explosion that it would trigger. Tom Brookman reviews WOMAD...13 April 2006
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