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16.03.12 CHRIS FINNEN PERFORMS FOR PROSTATE CANCER
This Sun Mar 25 a music benefit concert boasting legendary blues musician Chris Finnen and nine other local acts will take place at Higher Ground in efforts to raise funds for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.
08.03.12 WOMAD INTERVIEW: PENGUIN CAFE
Penguin Café Orchestra performed at the first WOMADelaide back in 1992 under leader Simon Jeffes.
07.03.12 WOMAD INTERVIEW: NILE RODGERS OF CHIC
Nile Rodgers will get the party started when Chic, his New York disco and funk outfit, make their only appearance at WOMADelaide on opening night, he promises Rip It Up’s Robert Dunstan.
06.03.12 WORLD MUSIC WEEKEND AT CASABLABLA
Casablabla, the popular multi-cultural tapas bar on Leigh St, will host three world music weekend afterparties on WOMAD weekend which will have Mista Savona Sound System (pictured), Rapskallion and Gypsy Dub Sound System performing over three nights from from Fri Mar 9 until Sun Mar 11 from 9pm.
04.03.12 WOMAD INTERVIEW: TÉTÉ
In a mere decade French-Creole troubadour Tété has truly delved his fingers into all creative pots.
02.03.12 WOMAD INTERVIEW: FIRST AID KIT
Growing up in Enskede, a few kilometres south of Stockholm, teenagers Johanna and Klara Söderberg of First Aid Kit would play Bright Eyes’ album I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and daydream about its creator Conor Oberst and the romantic mystique of his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.
11.01.12 DIRTY THREE ADDED TO WOMADELAIDE
The final acts for WOMADelaide’s 20th anniversary festival program have been announced, with the newest global stars heightening an already stellar bill boasting headliners like First Aid Kit, Chic and Blue King Brown.
22.11.11 WOMADELAIDE 2012 LINE-UP
Global? More like universal, as the 2012 line-up for the global music festival WOMADelaide is out of this world with disco pioneers Chic (pictured) headlining the four-day March festival along with Staff Benda Bilili (Democratic Republic Of Congo), First Aid Kit (Sweden), Ivory Coast’s Dobet Gnahore, Australia’s Gurrumul and Japan’s DJ Krush.
19.08.11 PACK THE RUG...WOMAD EARTH STATION LINE-UP 2011
WOMAD’s three-day Earth Station festival has announced its line-up of performers and speakers for the inaugural festival held in Belair National Park in late October.
28.06.11 WOMAD EARTH STATION BEGINS THIS OCTOBER
The new companion event to WOMADelaide Festival, EARTH STATION, will be officially held this Spring at Long Gully, Belair National Park from 21-23 October.
29.03.11 5 Minute Festival: Dereb The Ambassador
WOMADelaide is a great format for unearthing left-field talent that would otherwise elude us.
11.03.11 ScrapArtsMusic: 'We're bringing 4000 pounds of boxed mayhem!'
As a final teaser for WOMADelaide, which kicks off today (Fri Mar 11), we give you maniacal percussion group ScrapArtsMusic.
10.03.11 Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to WOMAD
I first came across Malian musical superstars Amadou & Mariam courtesy of another world music superstar, Manu Chao.
09.03.11 Interview: Angus & Julia Stone
While his older sister Julia takes a break in India after a big few months, Angus Stone is sitting by a Los Angeles creek with his Hollywood muse.
03.03.11 Ripper Out: March
Mad March can be a terrible burden on the purse strings.
07.02.11 6 On The St: The Shaolin Afronauts
This month 6 On The St presents the local dynamos who not only made it into Rip It Up's Hot 6 for 2011, but have also scored a spot on this year's illustrious WOMADelaide line-up.
25.01.11 WOMAD warm-up gig
WOMADelaide will once again be hosting a pre-festival warm-up gig headlined by one of the local acts set to tear the stage apart come February 11.
17.01.11 Martha Wainwright, Os Mutantes added to WOMAD bill
The line-up for WOMADelaide 2011 has been completed with the addition of seven more artists, including acclaimed singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright and legendary psych band Os Mutantes.
17.11.10 Talk It Up: Afro Celt Sound System
After a hiatus from music for a couple of years and spending time on other projects and with their families, the guys from Afro Celt Sound System have reunited with renewed musical energy, and are very excited to be playing again at WOMADelaide! “We’re looking forward to it!” band singer Iarla Ó Lionáird explained to Rip It Up when he called recently from his Irish homeland.
16.11.10 WOMADelaide 2011 festival program
Launch the official 2011 WOMADelaide program flipbookDownload the 2011 WOMADelaide program as a PDF (13MB) The full WOMADelaide 2011 festival guide is here, exclusive to Rip It Up! After announcing some pretty gob-smacking headliners, the festival organisers have not disappointed with a line-up of brilliant musicians from all over the globe, as well as a unique program of visual art, workshops and street theatre.
