WOMADelaide is Australia’s premier annual music, arts and dance festival. Each year it promotes and celebrates a world of tolerance, goodwill, cultural curiosity and joy in one of the nation’s most picturesque and amenable settings: Adelaide’s Botanic Park in the heart of Adelaide’s CBD. In 2011 the festival attracted over 89,000 attendances, breaking all previous box office records.
WOMAD – which stands for the World Of Music, Arts and Dance – was founded in 1982 by rock-music superstar Peter Gabriel and music journalist Thomas Brooman as a vehicle to bring the musical wonders of lesser-known cultures to the world stage. WOMAD festivals are now presented each year in New Zealand, Spain, the UK, Singapore, Italy and Abu Dhabi.
