A fabulous weekend. Everything was great, and the ADTs (Annoying Drunk Teenagers) seemed no worse than a couple of years ago. The performances started mostly right on cue on all the stages. Excellent.
Highlights for me included:
Safroman - gorgeous rumba, beautiful guitar playing.
Cedric Watson - fab dancy zydeco
The Kamkars - worth staying up for - magnificently hypnotic.
Geata Krar Collective - lovely playing and spectacular dramatic dancing - more costume-changes than Shirley Bassey.
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwli - so good I saw them twice - the most intense and ecstatic music of the weekend - they made me cry.
Orchestre National de Barbes - my new favourite band in the world. Joyous music, lovely musicians and a powerful anti-fascist message.
Sierra Leone's Refugee Allstars - irresistable.
JazZstePpa - banging.
Soumik Ditta - one of those special Womad moments - gorgeous sarod playing and the evening sun dappling the arboretum. Priceless.
Anxo Lorenzo - a shock to the cultural system - beautifully played Irish and Iberian trad folk music from this phenomenal piper.
Lots of other great stuff, but too many to mention.
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- Des Bowring
- Government worker, naturalist, music-lover, Rovers fan, raconteur and womaniser - terms which could all be used to describe me, with the exception of the last two.