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This morning, WOMADelaide has “thrown its arms around the world” and announced the first lineup of 47 artists for the 2025 festival.
Set in Adelaide’s lush Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from 7-10 March, the 2025 lineup once again features a diverse selection of artists from around the globe, with acts by PJ Harvey (UK), Nils Frahm (Germany), Mariza (Portugal), Goran Bregović & His Wedding & Funeral Band (Serbia), Cie Yoann Bourgeois (France), Bangarra Dance Theatre (Aus), and the recently-announced Khruangbin (USA).
WOMADelaide Festival Director, Ian Scobie AM says “WOMADelaide is when Adelaide throws its arms around the world to welcome, share, discover and celebrate music, arts, and dance, and today’s announcement of 47 groups from 28 countries demonstrates why it truly is ‘the world’s festival.”
For over three decades, WOMADelaide has stood unrivalled as the most diverse and eclectic celebration of world music in Australia. Displaying a fantastic assortment of music, dance, and arts from across the world year after year, audiences flock to Botanic Park to dance, discover, and immerse themselves in the ‘world’s festival’.
Returning to Australia for the first time in nearly a decade, legendary multi-instrumentalist PJ Harvey (UK) brings her live show and full-band experience. To close the festival’s opening night, the two-time winner of the Mercury Music Prize will be performing songs from her Grammy-nominated tenth studio album “I Inside the Old Year Dying” in addition to her remarkable back catalogue.
Berlin-based Nils Frahm has garnered international acclaim for his live shows and albums, known for defining the space between classical and electronic music. As pianist, composer, producer, and celebrated performer, Frahm has become renowned for his unconventional approach to piano since his breakthrough album “Felt” in 2011.
Born in Mozambique and raised in Lisbon’s Mouraria district, Mariza (Portugal) is a global superstar and one of the most acclaimed Fado singers of our time. With a career spanning over 20 years, 30 platinum albums, and countless accolades, Mariza has performed around the world, and has shared stages with musical legends such as Sting, Gilberto Gil, Lenny Kravitz, Cesária Évora, and Tito Paris.
Musician, producer and composer, Nitin Sawhney CBE (UK) is a formidable talent across many genres, from his own brand of British electronica and fusion to composing for orchestras and film. He has worked with artists such as Paul McCartney, Sting, and Akram Khan, and returns after being unable to travel to the 2024 festival.
Elsewhere in Botanic Park, WOMADelaide 2025 will see the return of the WoMarkets, a shaded hub of more than 40 retail stalls, in the tradition of a marketplace where different cultures share their wares – along Plane Tree Drive.
Also returning is The Studio, a theatre space created within the Adelaide Botanic High Gym, where a range of performances have been presented since 2022. This year the festival welcomes Adelaide’s own Restless Dance Theatre in Seeing Through Darkness and actor/theatre-maker Dorcy Rugamba’s musical reading Hewa Rwanda: Letter to the Absent.
The festival will again host a plethora of taste-tempting international food stalls including the tranquil fine-dining experience of The Sanctuary Restaurant at Adelaide Zoo, the three-day conversational forum Planet Talks and the KidZone, where adventure meets education for young festival-goers.
Be sure to keep on the pulse of all the latest WOMADelaide announcements, with more on the program due in November.
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