02 · GALLERY
Five frames.
WOMADelaide has run in Botanic Park every March since 1992. The Moreton Bay figs are 200 years old and their buttress roots make natural seating amphitheatres that the festival has not had to design. You walk for ten minutes through dappled light between stages and the music shifts from Tuareg blues to gamelan to Mongolian throat-singing to Mali kora-and-balafon. The Frome Park Stage at sunset, where the path tunnels between fig roots, is the festival's emotional centre. The audience is one of the most attentive in the world-music circuit. The trees do as much work as the programme.
The Frome Park Stage at sunset, where the path tunnels between fig roots, is the festival's emotional centre.
The landscape does as much work as the programming. One of the most-considered world-music festivals on the planet.
Annual, four days second weekend of March. Friday evening is the warm-up, Saturday and Sunday are the headline days, Monday is the long closing. Adelaide's autumn climate makes the daytime listening comfortable.
Annual four-day festival, second weekend of March. Gates open 12:00 each day, music to 23:00. Camping not on site; stay in Adelaide CBD walking distance from the park.
From Adelaide CBD, ten-minute walk north along Frome Road. Free shuttle from Adelaide Railway Station during the festival. From Adelaide Airport, 25 minutes by JetBus 1 then walk.