2016 Artist Archive

The new wave of Arabic street music

The Wheel House

Climate change activist and 2015 Bob Brown Foundation Young Environmentalist Of The Year

Free workshops that inspire creativity

Music Workshop

The Fairly Fresh Fish Company

Melbourne melodist playing progressive pop with integrity

Winner of the inaugural Bob Brown Young Environmentalist of the Year

An answer looking for a question

Real talk

Canadian academic, environmentalist, educator and living legend

Romantic Botanic: Untangling the secret love life of plants!

A fun and interactive experience for children

A haunting melodic voice rich with vibrant afro-soul

Dance Workshop

From the creative minds at Maybe ( ) Together

A fantasy draft of Sydney musical talent combining in four-part folk heaven

Media Commentator and award-winning Creative Director with over 18 years experience in the advertising industry

Manroo

Dance Workshop

By Jeremy Deller

An answer looking for a question...

Learning about the natural world has never been so much fun!

Australian indie-pop darlings

Dance Workshop

Nubian and Sudanese inspired East-African Retro-Pop

Director at Infratech Industies - developer of Australia's first floating solar power project

Dance Workshop

Australian premiere and exclusive to WOMADelaide

Australia's only Walkley award-winning marsupial-based cartoonist

Music Workshop

Best selling food sustainability author, journalist, author and environmental advocate

Historically rich a capella group from South Australia's western desert

Music Workshop

Indian superstar and arguably the world’s most recorded singer

Author, novelist, broadcaster, columnist, advertising & communications expert, and social commentator

Music Workshop

At the forefront of London's musical temperament for over 20 years

Economist, academic, political commentator and former Federal Liberal Leader of the Opposition

Music Workshop

Presenting the world premiere of "The Beginning of Nature"

Guardian Australia's political editor and winner of 2 Walkley Awards

Music Workshop

Music from the desert, straddling the celestial division between light and dark

Award-winning Harvard Professor, author and Historian of Science

Music Workshop

WOMADelaide royalty return with a brand new album

Director of RiAus and voice of the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs

Music Workshop

This Mississippi native will have you stompin' up dirt

Host of ABC's popular and long-running series The Science Show

Dance Workshop

A world of unexpected, intimate and new Ukrainian music

Distinguished academic, businessman, former diplomat and one of Australia's most respected economists and public policy advisors

With Lululemon

Internode founder and new technology entrepreneur

Hypnotic and otherworldly beats out of Adelaide

Deputy Vice Chancellor of UniSA and South Australian "Australian of the Year"

Original hip-hop innovators from Long Island, NY

Virtuosic Indian master of the acoustic slide guitar

Spanish gypsy fire from "the Sinatra of flamenco"

Political Editor at The Advertiser

An exuberant fusion of traditional and contemporary dance from Elcho Island

An enormous talent with virtuosic command of the harp

An eclectic mix of folk, soul and pop from one of the UK's most exciting new voices

The birth of Ethio-Soul

A unique sound that astonishes and delights

A rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music.

Lush, warm and evocative folk supported by sophisticated songwriting

Cuban rhythms matched with hypnotic minimalism

A unique mix of Inuktitut alt-country, throat singing and reggae

Effortlessly rich baritone, couched in typically heartbreaking, lush melody

One of Australia’s pre-eminent indigenous singer-songwriters

Four time Grammy Award-winning South African male choral group

Reflecting the current evolution of Persian song

Detroit house royalty

One of New Zealand's finest new musical exports

DJ, producer and founder of Soundway Records

Smooth, shiny & loaded with sin

Uplifting, eclectic and energetic Electro-Swing

Deep-dapping, relentlessly funky and furiously well dressed groove from Japan

Heat Beat, what's not to love?

Folky, rootsy, indie, trady, singy band from Newfoundland

A richly textured musical world where East meets West

Music producer with deep spiritual roots in Yoruba traditions

Ethereal melodies, deep bass and washed-out summer vibes

Heavy duty salsa latin bombs

Conjuring uncompromising visions of where we’ve come from and what could be

New music from Lowrider's Joe Braithwaite

Legendary Chicago DJ with some of the deepest crates going

Australian hip-hop’s next great hope

Double ARIA Award-winning Australian singer-songwriter

A dazzling modern evocation of traditional Mediterranean sounds

Carrying the flame of Afrobeat's spiritual inheritance

Electric desert blues grounded in the music of Mali's Songhoy people

Timeless melodies, striking minimalism and essentially English

Bearded choral commentary on the absurdity and grandeur of the modern male

The multi-platinum selling producer Ludovic Navarre is back!

Classic roots reggae and dancehall with a hip-hop edge

Traditional Korean music adapted to a modern life

Sun drenched disco swimming in 60's soft-rock psychedelia

Welcome to Country

A festive anthropological mini-orchestra from Melbourne

Nomadic Mongolian grunge

Enduring alternative rock trio out of Milwaukee

Uplifting blues rock and rollicking soul-infused pop

Experimental production duo incorporating chill-out, world & jazz influences