by Matt Saunders | Mar 15, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Mon 14 Mar As I was rushing down Frome Road to make it to the Foundation Stage in time to catch Mountain Mocha Kilimanjaro’s 5pm performance, my left sandal came apart. This isn’t really unusual, because my thongs are three years old and almost...
by David Robinson | Mar 15, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Mon 14 Mar The final stanza of this year’s WOMADelaide takes place under blue-ish skies; it is warm without being too hot. I’ve made the effort to arrive relatively early, as I want to catch Spiro’s 1pm session. There’s lots of space in front of...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 14, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Sun 13 Mar. Stage Two – Sarah Blasko I made my way back to WOMADelaide just in time to catch the second half of Sarah Blasko’s late afternoon set. Though I’d heard great things, I hadn’t familiarised myself yet, so it was wonderful to...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Botanic Park, Fri 11 Mar Stage Two – 47SOUL Having rested up during the day after Friday night’s festivities had me writing deep into Saturday morning, I rocked up to WOMADelaide just in time to catch the end of Middle Eastern hip-hop act 47SOUL’s 7:00pm Stage Two...
by David Robinson | Mar 12, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Fri 11 Mar. Here we go again. The 2016 WOMADelaide caravan has rolled into town, and I am but one of many thousands of people who will be making what has become an annual four-day pilgrimage to Adelaide’s Botanic Park. The human throng stretches...
by Matt Saunders | Mar 12, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Dance, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Fri 11 Mar Stage Two – Violent Femmes My first ever WOMADelaide begins with a band I feared I’d never see again after a very public dispute over selling their music for advertising in 2007 eventually led to their break-up in 2009. However,...