by David Robinson | Mar 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Adelaide Botanic Park, Sat 12 Mar. WOMADelaide 2016 continues into its second day. I’m in the park, anticipating more wondrous sonic immersion. It starts on a high; I arrive at the Zoo Stage and see Tulegur, a fabulous Chinese melding of traditional and modern sounds....
by Bobby Goudie | Mar 13, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Event, Live Music, Music, Reviews
Foundation Stage, Sat 12 Mar Introduced as the Middle East’s new soul diva, many in the audience may have been perplexed about what they are about hear from Ester Rada. The music is cross cultural as well as being a mix of various generations of music. Ester is...
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,...