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March 9, 2012 | Categories: News | Tags: Womadelaide | Leave A Comment »

Interview Sneak Peek – Lo’Jo

French rollickers Lo’jo are returning to the Festival for the third time - and no-one is happier than Womadelaide 2012 LIVE!’s Michelle Smith, who’s interviewing the group in our backstage tent on Saturday.

Her co-presenter Seth Jordan describees them this way ‘….with gypsy fiddle, chanson, Berber desert music, African talking drums and even elements of Caribbean groove, Lo’Jo’s exotic and bewitching songs flit between griot fables and humanist musings, mingling French, Spanish, Arabic, Creole and English.

Listen out for our interview and their live performance in our Saturday night show. Check broadcast times here.

And get the feel with this video

March 7, 2012 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Interview sneak peak – Staff Benda Bilili

We’ll be meeting many of the artists at this year’s festival in our backstage tent – we’ll have video and audio here for you to meeting them too. And in our exclusive live broadcast programs, you can also enjoy that along with exclusive live performances from these artists. Check broadcast times around the country here.

First to roll into the tent on Friday night will be Staff Benda Bilili, coming to Adelaide from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

You just have watch this video to see why we’re soooo looking forward to meeting them. this is part of a recording session in the Botaonical Gardens in Kinshasha

March 6, 2012 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

We’re on site in 10 days

Only 10 days now to the festival event shared by community radio audiences around Australia, on their radios and here online

Our 3 live to air programs direct from the 2012 Womadelaide Festival, Botanic Park, Adelaide are on

Saturday, Sunday and Monday, March 10, 11 and 12.

Broadcast times:

WA: 4 – 6pm; NT: 5.30 – 7.30pm, QLD: 6 – 8pm, SA: 6.30 – 8.30pm,

ACT, NSW, TAS, VIC: 7 – 9pm

Check for your local stations here

Radio Adelaide co-ordinates a top team from community and Indigenous stations around the country to bring you music live from the concert stages, exclusive interviews and as-it-happens online coverage.

Meet the Team from all over Australia here

Audio promos – for broadcasting stations, with room to add your station details are available here

And on the weekend, also check out as it happens interviews, live music performances, and exclusive video and on the spot reports from team members, as we cover the festival hour by hour right here on this site

February 28, 2012 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

2012 Festival Coverage On It’s Way

The Radio Adelaide team is gearing up for the 2012 Womadelaide Festival. Stay tuned here for news, broadcast details and preview interviews.

In the meantime, let’s get to know some of the artists appearing at this year’s fest. First Up:

First Aid Kit

Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg strike clean harmonies atop simple guitar, autoharp and keyboards. Their debut album, The Big Black & The Blue, released when Klara was aged 17 and Johanna 19, earned inclusion on several influential ‘best of 2010’ lists. Have a listen:

January 7, 2012 | Categories: News | 1 Comment »

2011 Festival Wrap Up

It’s been another great year for the community and Indigenous radio team backstage at the Womadelaide festival at Botanic Park, Adelaide.

Follow this website for our onsite blogs, photos, clips, podcasts, interviews and more. We’ve captured the excitement live and hope you can help us share it. Subscribe for email updates – just look in the right hand column.

We also produced three live to air broadcasts - March 12, 13 and 14 - to stations across Australia, as well internationally through our webcast

Find out more about our broadcast partners and broadcast times for your local area here.

Meet the team here

January 7, 2012 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Juan De Marcos – Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! – Onsite interview

Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez is probably best known as the man who put together the Buena Vista Social Club back in the mid-90s – finding those great old Cuban musicians, and encouraging them out of retirement for one last blast of international fame.

He was also the founder of the well-known Cuban band Sierra Maestra, and currently leads the Afro-Cuban All-Stars – a cross-generational band that features some of the best veteran players, alongside the most talented younger musicians in Cuba today.

Seth Jordan speaks with Juan de Marcos at Womadelaide 2011 LIVE!

Juan De Marcos – Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! – Onsite interview (mp3)

March 14, 2011 | Categories: News, Onsite Interviews | 1 Comment »

Hura Duri Dancers

Human hair is just one ingredient in these fabulous costumes of the Hura Duri Dancers from Papua New Guinea.

March 13, 2011 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Playful punters

Lifes better with a hoola hoop. Womadelaide is not just about the music it’s about the atmosphere and the people you meet along the way.

March 13, 2011 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Phil’s blog – A crumpled yellow band…

As twilight approaches I find myself awaiting the stage one performance to finish and allow the Morten Bay stage to come to life underneath the Gladflys. I quickly look around to ensure my seat is protected. Protected that is from the fall of figs that un-gently rain-domly thump the earth as if the trees themselves are trying to pound out some sacred rhythm, if you slow it down with a video tape or something you can just make out there dance. I’m sure to them its some sort of gypsy, polka, salsa, jig that they love to break out each year at this time.

Whilst trying to imagine this dance I notice a tall raggedy but beautiful grey gum tree. It looks both healthy and happy in its contentment to the goings on around it even though it’s missing a gigantic limb half up its winding trunk. Surrounding this old fellow of the gardens is a multitude of fauna that is now all living together in a silent example of diversity, a reality that seems to envelope the whole festival and question why this is only possible for a week when the trees show us that it is indeed very possible. Oh the band has arrived…

March 13, 2011 | Categories: News, Team Blog | Leave A Comment »

Ian’s Blog – Tara Egans alter ego’s Experience at Womad

Tim O'Brien - Womadelaide 2011

Tim O’Brien and his trio rocked me through a folk tinged aftelrnoon with no sentimentality, firmly rooted in the present, via appalachian and bluegrass motifs. Displaying humour with a loving memory of the cadences of voice and song in the multi cultured suburbs of his youth, Tim and trio led us through the varied musical traditions of America, produced from the collisiion of Indigeonous, African and Celtic influences.

We interrupt the broadcast as Yasar Akpence from Turkish gypsy band Yasar Akpence HARAM’DE has just entered the RadioAdelaide Tent for an interview. Fresh from Stage 2 after another wild, mesmerising set Yasar is here to talk about the origins of his musical heritage and inspiration. Check it out on the website. I saw them the previous day on Stage 3 where the later hour of the performance brought out the whirling gypsy in everyone. Woman twirling, arms undulating, some men swaying, natty dreads akimbo, children enchanted, unable to keep still, pulling on the hands of adults daring to remain so.

Back to the story… well thats Womad, the constant unfolding of new experience, deepening the pattern and colour of the fabric of our lives. I feel like I am stranded on an island with the worlds greatest musicians everywhere. Natalie Natiembe and band are hypnotically rocking the dub out of the stage 1 audience.

What I really sat down to write about was something special I experienced yesterday on the grassy rise at Stage 3. Archie Roach, Neil Murray and Shane Howard talked about what led them to song writing. All from the same region in Victoria, their young lives were separated by the Governments aparthied policies toward Indigenous Australians and the racism extant in broader society. All three mens questioning of society and their place in it led them to music, friendship and collaboration. Shane Howard talked about his path to Solid rock, Neil murray to Island Home and Archie Roach to Took the Children Away. All three compelling in their unimbellished eloquence and honesty, it was Archie Roachs’ journey that was the most emotionally powerful and moving. Some may have wanted more music but that missed the point. At this point in time, story and song are the performance, the audience were being engaged not simply entertained. Extending a folk tradition whereby stories and songs are intertwined these three fellas brought a little more humanity to this corner of Botanic Garden.

Dont blame me, Tara made me do it.

-Ian

March 13, 2011 | Categories: News | Tags: Te | Leave A Comment »

Womadelaide 2011 Photos!

Féfé - Womadelaide 2011 LIVE!

There are some stunning photos already available from our Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! team. Check out the albums here.

March 13, 2011 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Horace Andy & Dub Asante – Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! – Live music performance

Sorry, our rights to podcast this performance have expired.

March 12, 2011 | Categories: Live Music Performances, News | Leave A Comment »

Asa – Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! – Onsite interview

Over the past few years. Paris-based musician Asa has been quietly but steadily building a reputation as an artist of substance.

Her fresh style combines influences from western music, calypso and African sounds, resonating with audiences from all parts of the globe.

Asa is performing in Australia for the first time and she dropped by our backstage tent for a chat with Michelle Smith

Asa speaks with Michelle Smith for Womadelaide 2011 LIVE!

Asa – Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! – Onsite interview (mp3)

March 11, 2011 | Categories: News, Onsite Interviews | Leave A Comment »

2011 Festival Wrap Up

It’s been another great year for the community and Indigenous radio team backstage at the Womadelaide festival at Botanic Park, Adelaide.

Follow this website for our onsite blogs, photos, clips, podcasts, interviews and more. We’ve captured the excitement live and hope you can help us share it. Subscribe for email updates – just look in the right hand column.

We also produced three live to air broadcasts - March 12, 13 and 14 - to stations across Australia, as well internationally through our webcast

Find out more about our broadcast partners and broadcast times for your local area here.

Meet the team here

March 11, 2011 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

Top End communities to hear national broadcasts

Communities across the Top End will join listeners around Australia for this year’s live coverage of Womadelaide on the community and Indigenous radio networks.

TEABBA – the Top End Bush Broadcasting Association will provide the Womadelaide 2011 LVE! by satellite to its many remote Indigenous communities, as well as larger centres Darwin and Bachelor.

TEABBA provides operational support to 29 RIBS – Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Services, local community services often provided in language. These services can also access TEABBA’s satellite network, allowing local programs to be broadcast to other communities and each service to access additional programs for their communities

The Womadelaide festival has a great mix of sounds from around the world, including many Indigenous artists from Australia and other countries.

Womadelaide 2011 LIVE! Executive Producer Deborah Welch of Radio Adelaide says she is chuffed to know the program is reaching these new communities and that the international artists at Womadelaide will be really excited.

‘Each year at our backstage tent we explain to performers what kind of radio we are, and where our live programs are going. Many artists come from countries without community radio and are amazed to hear we have local radio run by communities in so many types of communities. Many are most excited that they will be heard in the Indigenous communities. We’re really pleased to have the ‘top end’ join the central Australian communities who have been enjoying the programs for some years through CAAMA.

The Top End communities that will be hearing Womadelaide 2011LIVE! are:

Anguraugu, Barunga, Beswick, Batchelor, Borroloola, Daguragu, Darwin, Galiwinku, Gapuwiyak, Jabiru, Jilkminggan, Kunbarlianjnja, Maningrida, Milikapiti, Milingimbi, Miniyerri, Minjilang, NumbuiwarNauiyu, Nambiyu, Nguiu, Ngukurr, Palumpa, Peppimenarti, Pirlangimpi, Ramingining, Robertson River, Umbakumba, Wadeye, Warruwi and Yirrkala

These communities have also provided a number of outstanding artists to Woamdelaide festivals over the years, including Yolngu Dance from Yirrkala as far back as 1995, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunipingu from Galiwin’ku on Elcho Island in 2009 and Young Wagilak Group from Ngukurr in 2010.

So like we always hope it will be, ‘it’s a two way thing’.

The full range of broadcast services bringing the programs to their local listeners can be seen by clicking the ‘broadcast stations’ tab above.

February 14, 2011 | Categories: News | Leave A Comment »

News

French rollickers Lo’jo are returning to the Festival for the third time - and no-one is happier than Womadelaide 2012 LIVE!’s Michelle Smith, who’s interviewing the group in our backstage tent on Saturday.

First to roll into the tent on Friday night will be Staff Benda Bilili, coming to Adelaide from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

First Aid Kit

It’s been another great year for the community and Indigenous radio team backstage at the Womadelaide festival at Botanic Park, Adelaide.

Follow this website for our onsite blogs, photos, clips, podcasts, interviews and more. We’ve captured the excitement live and hope you can help us share it. Subscribe for email updates – just look in the right hand column.

We also produced three live to air broadcasts - March 12, 13 and 14 - to stations across Australia, as well internationally through our webcast

It’s been another great year for the community and Indigenous radio team backstage at the Womadelaide festival at Botanic Park, Adelaide.

Follow this website for our onsite blogs, photos, clips, podcasts, interviews and more. We’ve captured the excitement live and hope you can help us share it. Subscribe for email updates – just look in the right hand column.

We also produced three live to air broadcasts - March 12, 13 and 14 - to stations across Australia, as well internationally through our webcast

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