WOMADelaide 2023

Finally – after three challenging years - audiences and artists from around the world were reunited at a record-breaking WOMADelaide in Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from the 10 - 13 March. The program attracted over 110,000 people across the festival long weekend with arguably the biggest and most diverse WOMADelaide line-up ever with performances from artists such as AURORA, Bon Iver, Fantastic Negrito, Florence + The Machine, The Proclaimers, Sampa The Great, Soul II Soul, Youssou N’Dour and the return of Gratte Ciel’s Place des Anges.

With a program consisting of more than 700 artists from 35 + countries, the world returned, for audiences and artists alike and 50% of advance sales were to interstate visitors to South Australia who were able to travel again – together with a record number of first-time attendees.

Program highlights included Bangarra Dance Theatre demonstrating why they are the country’s most celebrated contemporary dance company drawing on 65,000 years of culture and Kronos Quartet (celebrating 50 years and their final Australian tour) took the audience on an extraordinary musical journey.

German techno marching band MEUTE created a dancing frenzy with an extended roving performance through the park – destined to be a special WOMADelaide memory for delighted audiences, while Beckah Amani showed why she’s one of the most in-demand emerging performers in Australia. Balaklava Blues delivered two stirring performances blending multi-media, contemporary sounds and traditional Ukrainian folk music, eight-piece Kokoroko brought their distinct sound of jazzy Afrobeat and majestic orchestral soul while on Sunday, Colombian supergroup Ondatrópica gave a masterclass in Latin rhythms.

The festival came full circle with the final performance on Monday night as Youssou N’Dour returned – having performed at the first festival in 1992, with an uplifting set delivered in stunning form, to close the festival with his Super Etoile band from Senegal

_{“WOMADelaide is a potent reminder of the power of art and festivals to observe and honour our differences, but also to bridge them” – The Guardian}

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Music & Dance

ADG7 (South Korea)
Ailan Songs Project (Australia)
Alexander Flood (Australia)
Angel Olsen (USA)
Asanti Dance Theatre (Ghana/Australia)
AURORA (Norway)
Aurora Vocal Ensemble (Australia)
Bab L' Bluz (Morocco/France)
Balaklava Blues (Canada/Ukraine)
Bandaluzia (Australia)
Bangarra Dance Theatre Terrain (Australia)
Beckah Amani (Australia)
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn (USA)
Billy Bragg (UK)
Bon Iver (USA)
Cimafunk (Cuba)
Constantinople (Canada)
Danielle (PNG)
DEM MOB (Australia)
Didier Kumalo (Australia)
Dili Allstars (Timor Leste/Australia)
Fantastic Negrito (USA)
Florence + The Machine (UK)
Garifuna Collective, The (Belize)
Genesis Owusu & the Black Dog Band (Australia)
Grace Cummings (Australia)
GUTS (DJ) (France/Spain)
Izy (Australia)
Jaguar (UK)
Jamie Goldsmith (Australia)
Julian Belbachir (Australia)
Justin Adams & Mauro Durante (UK/Italy)
Jyoty (UK)
Kee'ahn (Australia)
Kefaya and Elaha Soroor (Afghanistan/UK/Italy)
Kokoroko (UK)
Kronos Quartet (USA)
Lachy Doley Group, The (Australia)
Langan Band, The (Scotland)
Madeleine Peyroux (USA)
Mdou Moctar (Niger)
MEUTE (Germany)
Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 and Tim Shiel (China/Australia)
Nakhane (South Africa)
Ngangki Warra (Australia)
Nightmares on Wax (DJ) (UK)
Ondatrópica (Colombia)
Pandit Ronu Majumdar & Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh (India)
Proclaimers, The (Scotland)
Quinteto Astor Piazzolla (Argentina)
Ria Hall (New Zealand)
Richard J Frankland (Australia)
Ripple Effect Band (Australia)
Rizwan Muazzam Qawwals (Pakistan)
Sampa The Great (Zambia)
San Salvador (France)
Sister Nancy meets Legal Shot (Jamaica/France)
Small Island Big Song (Taiwan/PNG/Mauritius/Aus+)
Sons Of Zöku (Australia)
Soul II Soul (UK)
TAIAHA (New Zealand/Australia)
Taikurtinna (Australia)
Tarabeat x MzRizk (Lebanon/Australia)
Taraf de Caliu (Romania)
Tiana Khasi (Samoa/India/Australia)
Youssou N'Dour & Le Super Étoile de Dakar (Senegal)
Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet)

Around The Park
Angus Watt flags (UK)
Didier Théron Company - La Grande Phrase / The Big Phrase (France)
Foco alAire LOStheULTRAMAR (Mexico)
Gaia by Luke Jerram (UK)
Galmae c'est pas là, c'es par là / it's not that way, it's this way (France/South Korea)
Gosti - (Australia)
Gratte Ciel Place des Anges (France)
Ku Arts Connecting to Country (Australia)
NSS Studio (Australia)

The Planet Talks
Alice Jones
Anne Poelina
Brynn O'Brien
Catriona Macleod
Dan Bourchier
Emma Carmody
Erin O'Donnell
Eytan Lenko
Fran Kelly
Maree Lowes
Megan Davis
Nikolai Beilharz
Patricia Anderson AO
Patricia Karvelas
Penny Wong
Peter Burdon
Phill Cassey
Polly Hemming
Ruby Jones
Sally Scales
Sarah Wheeler
Steve Meller
Tanya Ha
Tory Shepherd

KidZone
Adelaide City Libraries Book Nook
Art Gallery of South Australia
Cirkidz and Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi
Climbing Tree's Nature Village
Evelyn Roth's Nylon Zoo
Guru Dudu
Ripple Effect Band Workshop
South Australian Museum - Explorer's Tent
Story Time With Rachael Coopes
Uncle Stevie's Kaurna Classroom
University of Adelaide - Edible Insect Adventure

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