An experimental musician revered for creating vivid 'sound spectacles', Hayashi's method of Wadaiko (taiko drum) solo performance requires an unprecedented level of skill and physical stamina.
www.eitetsu.net

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Led by their enigmatic singer-songwriter-guitarist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, ex Yothu Yindi, and Manuel Dhurrkay, Saltwater are the new wave in contemporary indigenous roots music.
www.skinnyfishmusic.com.au

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DOCH are a highly energetic and outrageously talented young band whose unique musical arrangements of Eastern European gypsy music have won them fans at festivals across Australia.
www.doch.com.au

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Lyrical Celtic tunes by renowned accordionist Sharon Shannon, guitarist Jim Murray, devil fiddler Dezi Donnelly and piper Michael McGoldrick from Capercaillie.
www.daisydiscs.com
BY ARRANGEMENT WITH SEAMUS FINNEREN

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Born in Karbala where a tradition of female singers has been allowed to flourish, Farida is a leading exponent of maqam, an improvisational technique unique to Arabic music.
www.zamanproduction.com

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Specialist in All Styles
Named after the renowned Baobab Club in Dakar, this remarkable group of musicians were the Senegalese superstars of the seventies. Their homegrown style of music fused with Cuban rhythms brought them fame throughout West Africa and beyond. Take the opportunity to dip into the history of this remarkable group... their influences, their inspirations, their demise, their reformation, their successes and their diversions. Theirs is career, which has come full circle and brought Baobab to the top of the musical tree for a second time round.
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www.orchestrabaobab.com

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Possum and Emu, Ghost and Hollow Log
Journey to the expansive flood plains and towering paperbark forests of Djiliwirri as Director Joe Gumbula explores the sacred underpinnings of the Gupapuyŋu Dancers' traditional repertoire. Learn more about the specific manikay-bunggul (song-dance) items presented at WOMADelaide, and how manikay (song), bunggul (dance), yidaki (didjeridu) and miny'tji (design) are drawn together in the Yolŋu tradition of NE Arnhem Land to produce exhilarating ceremonial expressions of the eternal. Join the Gupapuyŋu Dancers in this unique opportunity to hear a manikay series explained as it is sung and as they teach you how to dance in the bunggul tradition to the rhythm of the bilma (sticks) and yidaki (didjeridu). Workshop participants should come prepared to dance!
With thanks to the Yothu Yindi Foundation
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A ska-flavoured postcard from the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, the 'Limestone' project is the first collaboration between the lead singers of The Black Sorrows and Bomba. Also featuring guest artist Dareb Desalegd (Ethiopia).
www.joecamilleri.com.au
www.bomba.com.au

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Proving that when young people find a voice, their confidence grows and their life can improve, the performances by these 42 teenagers from rural village schools are nothing short of inspirational.

The Golden Pride Children's Choir is still raising funds to come to Australia to perform in Perth, at WOMADelaide, and in Melbourne. The Choir is made up of 42 teenagers from three rural villages in Tanzania and featured in "From Rags to Rhapsody", an inspirational documentary that recently screened on Australian TV . For more information, or to make a donation towards the costs of getting the Choir to Australia, please go to www.goldenpridechoir.org

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Sanders is a master of a menagerie of bagpipes and many other wind instruments, with a wealth of experience of the music of Turkey, Greece and the Balkans.
www.netspace.com.au/~kimsanders

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Lura mixes street-wise, urban sensuality with the passion of ancestral Africa and the hidden traditions of women from the remote interior of her homeland, infused with jazz and Brazilian influences.

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India's master of the sarod, a 19-stringed instrument that rivals the sitar in north Indian classical music. A sixth generation virtuoso who is much loved for his inventive and hypnotic style.
www.sarod.com
By arrangement with the Nataraj Cultural Centre and supported by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.

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Rock 'n' Reel
The three members of the 'front line' of La Bottine Souriante invite you into a Quebecois kitchen party! Bringing together a convivial spirit and a passion for their music, you will be transported into the pure Quebecois tradition. The traditional foot-tapping will make you dance and will keep time to the sound of traditional songs and reels from Quebec. The workshop will explore the origin of some songs and reels; from whom they've been learned and their relationship with the traditional Quebecois repertoire.
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www.bottinesouriante.com

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The most travelled group in the history of the steelband, the 16 piece Renegades' Calypso interpretations of standards are a thing of genius.

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A classical dancer and choreographer, Vidyapathy is also well-known for his innovative mastery of Kandyan drumming with Western and Indian jazz and classical music.

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Hailing from Port Lincoln in regional SA, the multi-instrumentalist Krieg crafts blues-flavoured, left-of-centre songs of longing, damnation, redemption and the curious foibles of human nature.

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