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Peter Gabriel's live set from the very first WOMAD Festival in 1982, featuring material from the then-unreleased Peter Gabriel 4 album, is released digitally this Friday

Congolese guitarist and songwriter who toured Europe with TPOK Jazz and gave a celebrated ‘unplugged’ performance at Womad in 2000

On the back of Glastonbury, a team of young performers from northern Benin, in West Africa, took their message of female empowerment to another prestigious festival in England – the Womad World of Music, Arts and Dance.

This year’s line-up was a rich mix of flamenco, African guitar music and Brazilian rap

The UK's summer festival scene has not only recovered from Brexit and Covid, it has never been more vibrant. And that includes the WOMAD international arts festival in the west of England where fans flock not just for the bigger names but "to hear music they've never heard before," the…

From the Isle of Wight to Camp Bestival, the summer festival season has only just begun

Tom Entwisle is spared a recorded conviction after being caught drink driving a WOMADelaide golf buggy through the city in March, in what the magistrate described as a "foolish decision".

Police arrest two Victorian men they say were caught riding a golf buggy along an Adelaide CBD street at 4:45am, after it was allegedly stolen from Womadelaide.

A WOMADelaide centrepiece involving thousands of feathers being poured over crowds should be removed from next year's schedule, PETA says. But the festival's director has defended its inclusion.