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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> is a <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> of music and dance bringing together artists from all over the world. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> are renowned for their unique mix of artists and distinctive family-friendly atmosphere. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>WOMAD</b> foundation is an educational charity, established in 1983 by Thomas Brooman and Bob Hooton to "promote maintain, improve and advance education in world cultures and multicultural education".</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.btinternet.com /~womad.pictures/WOMAD/about.html</font> (181 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.earpollution.com/vol3/sept01/profiles/womad/womad.html">earpollution - profiles - womad usa 2001 [page 1] - issue 3.Ø9, september 2ØØ11</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> is the World of Music, Arts and Dance <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This year we were blessed that the <b>WOMAD</b> USA was able to encamp itself once again in Redmond's Marymoor Park for the fourth year in a row. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Thankfully, in April King County Executive Ron Sims announced that <b>WOMAD</b> was to happen after all, having completed negotiations on a new deal that called for the three-day <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> at Marymoor Park this year and the option for a similar deal in 2002 and 2003.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.earpollution.com /vol3/sept01/profiles/womad/womad.html</font> (286 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> USA and King County Executive Ron Sims are delighted to announce the <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>Festival</a> will return to King County's Marymoor Park near Redmond for a fourth year, July 27, 28, 29. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> co-founder Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a> has also been personally involved in the successful negotiations with King County and today Peter said: "We are delighted to be back in Seattle and working with Ron Sims and his excellent team. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>WOMAD</b> organization was founded in 1980 by musician/artist Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a>, Thomas Brooman and Bob Hooton with the pioneering goal of producing multi-cultural music <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> worldwide to entertain, inform, and forge awareness of the worth and potential of a multi-cultural society.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.metrokc.gov /exec/news/2001/040901.htm</font> (626 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/womad/2006">WOMAD 2006</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance, bringing together many forms of music, arts and dance from countries and cultures around the world. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> aims to excite, to inform, and to create awareness of the worth and potential of a multicultural society. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> presents around 70 artists from across the world, on seven indoor and outdoor stages.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>A Guide To WOMAD Festival</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)</i></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The 12th annual <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>Festival</a> at Rivermead, Reading returns for another fabulous three days of music on seven stages by the banks of the River Thames. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> was originally inspired by Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a>: "Pure enthusiasm for music from around the world led us to the idea of <b>WOMAD</b> in 1980 and thus to the first <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> in <a href="/topics/1982" title="1982" class=fl>1982</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> are often weekend-long, family-oriented, active and diverse musical events, featuring simultaneous performances on two or three stages, including participatory workshops and special events for children, as well as musical and dance sessions hosted by many of the visiting artists.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.readingcentral.co.uk /music/womad.htm</font> (317 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> - the World of Music, Arts, and Dance - returns to Redmond this weekend for the second year in a row. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> hosting more than 40 acts from around the world, <b>WOMAD</b> offers the opportunity to see such well-known performers as Taj Mahal and the Joans (Armatrading and Baez), as well as undiscovered musical treasures from every corner of the globe. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Though most think of <b>WOMAD</b> as the name of the <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a>, the acronym refers to the organization founded by Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a> and friends in 1980 to promote World music and art through <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a>, recordings, videos and exhibitions.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1999/072899/NF6.Rwomad.html</font> (756 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.earpollution.com/sept99/profiles/womad3.html">earpollution profiles - womad [page 3] - issue 1.09, september 1999</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> USA assembled a fantastic collection of artists and musicians representing cultures the world over, only to be set loose on a bunch of pasty-faced, Volvo driving, co-op shopping northwesterners. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> I'm sure there were many people there who experienced <b>WOMAD</b> at a distance, wanting nothing more than to take it all in as consumer entertainment. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> But there were also many more who became active participants, who sought out and found more from their experience at <b>WOMAD</b> than just the face value of their ticket.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><u>WOMAD festival cancels this year, citing the times</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)</i></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> is such a specialty; it doesn't have the pop mass appeal, so we're always trying to get more and more people through the gates," Doxtater said. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This left <b>WOMAD</b> to seek the addition of a title sponsor, which it couldn't secure after the financial consequences of 9/11. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD's</b> other global <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> will continue this year as planned in the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Singapore, Sicily, the Canary Islands, Australia and New Zealand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> New Zealand 2003 took over 20,000 revelers on a musical journey around the globe, with a stunning line-up of over 300 performers from 15 different countries. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> New Zealand 2005 will feature some of the most talented and legendary musicians from around the globe, including original Woodstock artist Richie Havens, who joins a line-up of more than 375 performers from 15 countries. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> New Zealand 2005 follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful inaugural Taranaki event held in March 2003 and attended by more than 20,000 people.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Whatever really went on behind the scenes, the end result was One Reel and <b>WOMAD</b> parted ways, and an outfit called The Workshop took on the daunting task of organizing the whole thing on a shortened schedule — once it was determined that there actually would be a <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The big draw this year was to be the presence of one of <b>WOMAD's</b> founders, Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a>, and after some shuffling (at one time, Robert Plant was scheduled, then replaced by Gregg Allman), a lineup of more than forty artists representing more than twenty nations came together. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In past years, <b>WOMAD</b> has ended with a Grande Jam, where members of many of the participating groups all get on stage together.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> USA will be surrounded by the inherent beauty of the Pacific Northwest, an area that is culturally diverse and a center for innovations in popular music. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>WOMAD</b> organization was founded by musician/artist Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a>, Thomas Brooman and Bob Hooton in 1980 with the goal of producing multi-cultural music <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> worldwide to entertain, inform and make a wider audience aware of the worth and potential of a multi-cultural society. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> USA is produced and presented by <b>WOMAD</b> and One Reel, a Northwest non-profit arts organization.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> has held <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> in over 20 countries, including Japan, United Kingdom, USA and many <a href="/topics/European" title="European" class=fl>European</a> countries. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> has pioneered for the acception of World music into western society, and it is seeming to have an effect.</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.blinkbits.com /blinks/womad</font> (669 words)</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4728441.stm">BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Crowds gather for Womad festival</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> More than one million music fans have seen <b>Womad</b> events in 22 countries since the first <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> in the UK in <a href="/topics/1982" title="1982" class=fl>1982</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Womad</b> was originally inspired by singer Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a> to introduce a new audience to many talented international artists and gain an insight into other cultures. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> In 1988, <b>Womad</b> events sprang up in Denmark and Canada and now <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> are annually held in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the Canary Islands and Sicily.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>WOMAD</b> organization was created in 1981 by a group of individuals including the English singer and artist Peter <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a> and Thomas Brooman, Artistic Director of <b>WOMAD</b>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> hopes always to work as an agent of discovery and as a gateway to the rich diversity of the world around us
we are inspired by the opportunity to explore this cultural territory in the rich and beautiful environment of Sri Lanka, ” said Mr Thomas Brooman, Artistic Director, <b>WOMAD</b> </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Angus’ previous <b>WOMAD</b> collaborations include a project with the Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara women of South Australia at the ‘WOMADelaide’ event, and his work with the Sri Lankan artists is set to take him in an exciting new creative direction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> All of Lila's pics were taken at the <b>Womad</b> 2003 <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>Festival</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> At <b>WOMAD</b> she will perform her newest work, “The Mongrel in Me”, celebrating her Maori/Celtic/Jewish heritage. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Coming from one of the most vibrant and dedicated theatres of hip hop and rap in the world, this charismatic Senegalese crew were recently awarded a highly-conveted BBC Music Award in recognition for their dedication to the grail of good tunes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9907/30/wb.womad/index.html">CNN - WorldBeat Spotlight - From gospel to Zulu, WOMAD captures world music - July 30, 1999</a></td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The first <b>WOMAD</b> was held in England in <a href="/topics/1982" title="1982" class=fl>1982</a>, long before the term "world music" had become a popular catch-phrase for record <a href="/topics/World-Company" title="World Company" class=fl>companies</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This year, there are <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals</a> slated for Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Italy, the United States, South Africa and Spain, as well as Britain. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The artist lineups vary as the <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> moves from country to country, but the concept remains the same -- to bring global sounds to an audience as varied as the music itself.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> This is the idea driving the World of Music, Arts and Dance <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>Festival</a> (<b>WOMAD</b>), which took over a pleasant suburban park in Redmond, Washington this weekend with three days of genre-bending music from around the globe. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Attendees of every <b>WOMAD</b> have hoped for a <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a> appearance and this brief show only whet the appetite of his rabid fans. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> As the Blind Boys wound down, the Trans Global Underground had trouble getting off the ground, with two false starts when their amplified percussive power shorted out the PA. When they finally launched, it became clear that this is the kind of group for which <b>WOMAD</b> was created.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Organized by Sri Lanka Tourist Board, <b>WOMAD</b> Sri Lanka 2005 demarcated the revival and rejuvenation of Sri Lanka Tourism. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> These photos may freely used for news on <b>WOMAD</b> Sri Lanka 2005. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> If you are an artist in these photos or a person experienced this great event we are happy to share our works as a souvenir for <b>WOMAD</b> Sri Lanka 2005.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b>, the World of Art, Music and Dance, was as much fun as ever in 2006. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> We started off just 3 years ago on trial as a new stewarding organisation, and have since taken on the stewarding of the campsites, the venues, the ticket checking, and also managing the disabled bookings before the <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a>, and the disabled campsite at the <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>WOMAD</b> 2007 is moving to Charlton Park, nr Malmesbury in Wiltshire.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A: <b>Womad</b> is a very child friendly <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The <b>Womad</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> site is very close to Reading city centre, 10 mins walk from Reading train station. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> At <b>WOMAD</b>, you will be trained in the use of fire fighting equipment, and will be briefed about other aspects of your role as a steward, once you are on site.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> One of the reaons I chose to goto <b>WOMAD</b> was to see this band (besides <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a>), touted as one of the hottest acts in this country. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> It is true that the rest of the performers in <b>WOMAD</b> were all very talented, but <a href="/topics/Peter-Gabriel" title="Peter Gabriel" class=fl>Gabriel</a> showed what it takes to get to the position he is. The show was stunning and all this was without any extended electronic gadgets and videos. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> I think the <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival</a> was a great idea in bringing together different types of music and this truly epotimises the fact that there's no need to distinguish between different races and cultures.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> About 25,000 music fans went to the <b>Womad</b> music <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival's</a> 20th anniversary event in Reading - and BBC News Online asked festival-goers and performers what the highlights were. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> One of the great things about <b>Womad</b> is the groups who you've not heard before and you just chance upon." </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> We did a workshop, which was very weird because we are now playing electronic music, and that was only an acoustic set.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> abriel, the architect of <b>Womad</b>, is in Adelaide until tomorrow, for his first and only Australian gigs and on the eve of a major international tour. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> unupingu is a <b>Womad</b> veteran, having played in <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festivals at Reading</a>, England and in Finland during the summer solstice. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Womad</b> is an opportunity for all Australian's to get a kind of strength coming in from overseas to reinforce what we believe in as a people and the way our objective is met through music.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> A S <b>WOMAD</b> grows to be an intrinsic part of South Australia's cultural fabric, so it also grows in strength, stature and beauty. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> While <b>WOMAD</b> has a reputation for bringing the exotic fruits of the world's native music to our ears, so too has it heightened the overt Australian-ness of our own emerging, parochial music. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Importantly, the <b>WOMAD</b> audience was receptive to new sounds - as is their wont, even though the evenings much-anticipated highlights in Geoffrey Oryema and Scotland's Shooglenifty were both return visitors to Adelaide's <b>WOMAD</b> events.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Since 1985, missing only 3 years, we have been present at at least one of <b>WOMAD's</b> annual events in the UK, usually their summer <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>festival in Reading</a>. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Our first recording (on 20 July 1985 at Mersea Island, near Colchester) was of the Chinese sheng and flute players, the Guo Brothers, who had recently arrived in London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and were just beginning to create a name for themselves in this country.</td></tr>
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<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Multi-award winning performers, the world's hottest tango music ensemble and virtuoso musicians are among the stellar line-up of International and New Zealand artists heading to <b>WOMAD</b> 2007 </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Information about ticketing, prices, how and where to purchase <b>WOMAD</b> 2007 tickets starts here. </td></tr>
<tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> Accommodation can be booked online right here for your stay during the <b>WOMAD</b> <a href="/topics/Reading-Festival" title="Reading Festival" class=fl>Festival</a>.</td></tr>
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