Womadelaide 2024: global music festival finds the love amid 40C heat and calls to boycott
Opening on a 37C night in the wake of controversy, electrifying performers and enthusiastic crowds transcended an otherwise fraught event
March 2023
Womadelaide 2023: blockbuster headliners and record crowds drive a euphoric long weekend
Florence and the Machine, Bon Iver, Sampa the Great and a blizzard of feathers headline a festival striving to recapture its pre-pandemic glory
March 2022
Womadelaide’s unforgettable moments: ‘They didn’t know what to expect’
From an all-star train ride across the Nullarbor to an unexpected cricket plague, this year’s festival marks 30 years of border-defying music and art
March 2021
Womadelaide 2021: Archie Roach bids farewell in a 'festival' forced to redefine itself
The annual celebration of world music adapts to Covid with an exclusively domestic program featuring Sarah Blasko, Lior and Midnight Oil
March 2020
Womadelaide 2020: uplifting, political and expansive festival offers hope amid the doom
With Mavis Staples, Aldous Harding and Spinifex Gum in the lineup, the world music festival offered plenty of reasons to look up from our phones – and towards each other
March 2019
Womadelaide 2019: Christine and the Queens dazzles amid smorgasbord of sound
More than 75 acts performed over four packed days in a world music festival that continues to push boundaries and open hearts
March 2018
Womadelaide 2018: all singing, all dancing festival of joy
Crowds delight in extraordinary range of talent, colour and atmosphere in botanic gardens
Womadelaide festival 2018: throat singing, theatrics and feathers – in pictures
Anoushka Shankar, Baker Boy, Rodrigo y Gabriela and Gogol Bordello join more than 650 artists from 25 countries playing Adelaide’s four-day festival of music and dance
Dustyesky's Russian folk songs and accent comedy – it shouldn't work, but it does
Joke act it may be, but there’s something weirdly great about a bunch of Byron shire lads singing in Russian at Womadelaide
December 2017
Baker Boy rising: from Arnhem Land to sharing a stage with Dizzee Rascal
Trilingual hip-hop artist and one-time member of Indigenous dance troupe Djuki Mala has his sights on being the next Drake
March 2017
Womadelaide festival 2017: 'We just want to rock you' – in pictures
Womadelaide 2017: politics rages through Australia's most diverse and surprising festival
Smart cities
Music to our ears: sustainability headlines Womadelaide festival
The Manganiyar Classroom: Indian children bring endangered music to Australia
Womadelaide 2017 playlist: eight acts to hear before you go
'Jesus would say let them in' – Father Bob Maguire answers your questions
February 2017
Archie Roach on the healing power of song: 'Music was great therapy for me'
Post your questions for Father Bob Maguire
March 2016
Womadelaide festival 2016: 12 things we learned
Womadelaide festival 2016: sun comes out for stars of world music – in pictures
