I have a confession.  Each year when I look at the WOMADelaide program and study the list of artists I draw a blank.  Well, not quite a blank.  There are always a few celebrities – the likes of Baaba Maal and Lo’jo who make welcome return visits.

But each year I head to WOMADelaide confident that these will be the best four days of the year for music, culture and dance, as the artists whose names mean little to me, then burst onto the stage; so colourful, so rich a mix of traditional and modern culture.

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