02 February 2023 - 0 Comments

The full WOMAD New Zealand 2023 stage schedule including World Of Words, Taste The World, Te Paepae and OMV Steam Lab is now available at womad.co.nz

See your festival favourites perform twice or schedule your weekend around the exclusive one-off performances across the four main music stages. Experience and explore Māori culture and artistry at the welcoming Te Paepae stage. Learn how to cook with your favourite artists at Taste The World. Visit the Kunming garden, home to World Of Words hosting a mixture of speakers, interviews, book sessions, poetry slams and comedy. Hear from inventors, innovators and visionaries at the top of their fields who are pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo at the OMV Steam Lab. There is something for everyone at WOMAD New Zealand!

Artists scheduled for exclusive one-off festival performances include; Zambian rapper Sampa The Great, and the incredible Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and The Le Super Etoile de Dakarand local talents Fly My Pretties, Rubi Du, psychedelic indie group KITA, the highly anticipated Avantdale Bowling Club and Auckland-based Nigerian hip-hop artist Mazbou Q.

Encouraging fans to discover new sounds and future favourites, WOMAD New Zealand 2023, welcomes double festival performances from multi-award-winning Korean folk-pop group ADG7, Franco-Moroccan psychedelic rock band Bab L'Bluz, Grammy Award-winning Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Afro-Cuban rockstar Cimafunk, early music ensemble Constantinople, soul and R&B singer Deva Mahal and three-time Grammy-winning rock and roll, funk, R&B activist Fantastic Negrito.

Attendees will be treated to the Indian classical music of Pandit Ronu Majumdar & Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh, Justin Adams & Mauro Durante's trance rhythms of Taranta and Afro-Indigenous Music from Belize & Honduras's The Garifuna Collective twice throughout the festival.

And, acapella trio Acapollinations, Afghan singer Elaha Soroor and eclectic London-based ensemble Kefaya, Pacifica women's ensemble Le Moana, 11-strong German techno marching band MEUTE, Tuareg songwriter Mdou Moctar, vibrant dance group Mudra Dance Company, Japanese Drum Team Narukami Taiko Drumming, Argentinian Grammy Award-winning ensemble; Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, Pakistani Qawwali group Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali, modern Occitan troubadours San Salvador, Romany folk supergroup Taraf de Caliu and dynamic Scottish three-piece The Langan Band will perform repeated sets across the weekend.

Three days at WOMAD NZ rivals an around-the-world trip.

Photo Credit: Federico Pegola

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