WOMAD 2014 revels in 10 Years in Taranaki celebrations
WOMAD 2014 revels in 10 Years in Taranaki
celebrations
New Website, Full Line Up Reveal & Band
Competition Kicks Off
The time has finally arrived
that WOMAD enthusiasts hang out for, and the Womad curious
get confused by… WOMAD line-ups always contain a bit of
familiar but are always filled with artists you’ve not yet
heard of… and therein lays the magic and the wonder of
this unique festival.
For its 10th year in Taranaki, WOMAD will be giving audiences an unparalleled chance to discover, experience and celebrate the many riches of music, arts and dance the world has to offer. “Dance ‘til you drop” will be the motto for audiences who simply will not be able to resist moving to the high energy and upbeat rhythms of many of the WOMAD artists for 2014.
With a strong contemporary edge running through the line-up, many artists draw on their roots to explore new cultural and musical fusions, taking their music to another level.
Artistic Director, Drew James advises "Bring your dancin' shoes and prepare for another inspirational celebration of music, dance and diversity in Taranaki. We have some surprises planned too. Definitely don’t miss this one!”
To cap off the well-curated line-up, WOMAD are once again opening the gates to a local band that have not had the opportunity to play to a WOMAD audience. The 2014 Band Competition kicks off now and is a chance for the WOMAD audience to add their choice to the bill. All entry and voting runs on the WOMAD NZ website http://www.womad.co.nz/competitions-special-offers/band-competition
Come join us - Friday 14 to Sunday 16 March 2014, at New Plymouth’s stunning Brooklands Park and TSB Bowl of Brooklands.
Tickets are available from the fabulous
new Womad website www.womad.co.nz making finding all the
information you need a whole lot easier.
WOMAD TICKETS
http://www.womad.co.nz/tickets/buy-now
Camping, Ezicamp
and Glamping options available.
The World’s Festival of
WOMAD brings the music, the culture, the food and the
stories of countries spanning the planet. Let yourself be
transported to another place, walk through the gates of
WOMAD for a weekend and let us show you the
world.
Airileke (PNG/Australia)
Pacific rhythms pulse
through Airileke’s music projects. First it was his Krump
band Grilla Step; now it’s the Melbourne-based producer
and percussionist’s solo album Weapon of Choice. This is
the new sound of urban Papua New Guinea in Australia, with
hard new beats that hark back to ancient Melanesian
culture.
Arrested Development (USA)
In 1992,
Arrested Development stood in stark contrast to the
gangsta-rap dominated hip-hop scene as a group with a social
conscience. Their hits Tennessee and Mr Wendal brimmed with
lyrics of hope and their debut album sold millions.
Founding member Speech is still at the helm of this amazing
Grammy Award-winning outfit.
Buika
(Guinea/Spain/USA)
The broken sensuality of Buika’s
smoky voice captures an emotional charge that is unique.
While the passion of flamenco remains at the heart of her
music, she sees herself as a singer without limits,
collaborating with jazz artists such as Pat Metheny and
Chick Korea, alongside Charles Aznavour, Anoushka Shankar
and Nelly Furtado.
Delaney Davidson (New Zealand
/Aotearoa)
Winner of the New Zealand Country Music Album
of the Year 2013, Best Country Song 2013 and 2012, Reigning
Champion of One Man Band 2011 in Zurich, third in the
Saddest Song in the World Berlin. Delaney Davidson
alternately rips tears and pours his up tempo art blues the
world over carving a name for himself in Europe and USA on
his 10-year endless tour.
Emel Mathlouthi
(Tunisia)
Emel Mathlouthi is a protest singer with a
voice of jasmine. Her song Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free)
became the anthem of the Arab spring and lit the way for the
future of Tunisian music. A powerful live performer,
Emel’s music is lyrical and melodic, with unexpected
touches of rock and trip hop.
Latinaotearoa (New
Zealand/Aotearoa)
Latinaotearoa is a unique and truly
legitimate three-piece Latin act which blends Latin-funk,
soul, and hip-hop to create a sound with a local flavour.
Jennifer Zea’s sultry singing layers Bobby Brazuka’s
beat selections beautifully, with Isaac Aesili providing the
percussion. This trio is sure to get feet shuffling and hips
swinging.
Moana & the Tribe (New Zealand/
Aotearoa)
Moana & the Tribe stand out as one of the most
significant voices of Maori music . Politically conscious ,
they get their groove on in 2014 with a fat, new rhythm
section all set to dirty up the sweet harmonies of the
female vocalists and deliver an edgier feel alongside
soulful singing and the raw energy of live haka.
Pokey
LaFarge (USA)
With hair slicked back, archtop guitar and
a wide smile, Pokey conjures a modern ‘Midwestern
dustbowl’ sound from early jazz, string ragtime, country
blues and swing. However, as Pokey and his acoustic
five-piece backing band is quick to declare, “It’s not
retro music. It’s American music that never died.”
Sam Lee & Friends (UK)
The rising star of the English
folk scene, Mercury Prize nominated Sam Lee injects youthful
vigour and enthusiasm into the old songs of the British
Isles. With his spirited and unconventional six piece band
on homemade, mongrel instruments, he is twisting the
perception of what ‘traditional folk’ should sound
like.
Tim Finn (New Zealand/Aotearoa)
Acclaimed
singer/songwriter and founder of legendary New Zealand band
Split Enz, Tim Finn performs songs from his solo career as
well as classic songs from Split Enz and Crowded
House.
He will be supported by critically acclaimed
Auckland band, The Bads, who will join Tim on stage in
various combinations to perform songs from his impressive
back catalogue.
Ane Brun
(Sweden/Norway)
With a distinctive style informed by her
fingerpicking guitar and remarkable crystalline voice, Ane
Brun defines a proud new style of Scandinavian song. Pure
and fragile, her simple, beautiful compositions are the sum
of her listening to pop, jazz and classical with traditional
folk music from Norway and Sweden.
Asif Ali Khan
(Pakistan)
Asif Ali Khan is the reigning prince of
Qawwali music and a favourite student of the late Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan. Expanding on his teacher’s legacy with
brilliant inventiveness, his vocals effortlessly build from
meditative and trance-like to sudden, thrilling crescendos.
Accompanied by an exceptional ensemble, this is Sufi music
at its most transcendental.
Carminho
(Portugal)
Carminho is, quite simply, the world’s
brightest new fado star. After attending university and
travelling the world, the 25-year-old decided that singing
the passionate ‘Portugese blues’ was her true calling.
Her striking 2011debut album Fado was named album of the
year by Songlines magazine and her emotional performances
are truly spine-tingling.
DJ Yoda (UK)
Q Magazine have
declared DJ Yoda “one of the ten DJs to see before you
die”. With trail blazing technology he transforms the
average night out into a fusion of clubbing and the movies.
His latest lauded artist long player, ‘Chop Suey’ (2012)
features vocalists including Boy George, Alice Russell and
the legendary M.O.P..
Kimbra (New
Zealand/Aotearoa)
Kimbra’s performance at WOMAD 2014
will be her first NZ show in over a year. She has carved out
a magnificent reputation as live performer, relentlessly
touring the globe for the last two years, thrilling
audiences with over 140 shows in 2012, including three tours
of the US. As a recording artist, Kimbra has scooped two
Grammys, 5 NZ Music Awards and two ARIAs.
Los Coronas
(Spain)
This is surf music Spanish style, all tangled up
in Spaghetti Western themes and drenched in reverb. The
Madrid instrumental quintet first put on their cowboy hats
and slung on their guitars in 1991, mixing rock ’n’ roll
intensity with the 1960s Californian surf sound, lively
marching-band pasodoble and flamenco.
Mokoomba
(Zimbabwe)
Hailed as the future of Afrosound, Mokoomba
represent Zimbabwe’s next generation of hope. An
exuberant young band fronted by powerful and intense
vocalist Mathias Muzaza, their songs are about typical
southern Africa issues; social ills, the HIV pandemic, love
and the Zimbabwean determination to never give up.
Red
Baraat (USA)
Hard-driving North Indian Bhangra rhythms
meet elements of jazz, go-go music and hip-hop in the
thrillingly original Red Baraat. Founded by Sunny Jain (ex
Norah Jones, Junoon) in Brooklyn in 2008, the band’s live
shows delve into Punjabi music and Bollywood rhythms and in
and out of funky brass improvisations.
Shanren
(China)
Likened to having the energy of The Pogues, the
raucous Chinese indie folk quartet Shanren plays traditional
instruments alongside amplified Stratocasters. Formed in the
mountainous, mysterious Yunnan province, Shanren promotes
the colorful but largely unknown heritage of ethnic minority
tribes from Southwestern China, re-interpreting their
regional folk songs with vigour.
Waiora (New
Zealand/Aotearoa)
Waiora create soundscapes with lush
textures from guitar, percussion and vocals as well as the
many sounds of taonga puoro, flutes, trumpets, percussive
and wind instruments. Horomona Horo, takes the listener on a
dynamic journey, incorporating traditional culture and the
original uses of the instruments in a contemporary musical
idiom.
Antonio Serrano (Spain)
The greatest
harmonica player of his generation, Antonio Serrano blows
everything from classical to jazz, blues to tango. He tours
as a solo performer, accompanying himself on piano and
looping pedals, tackling film themes to folk songs, Georgia
On My Mind to What a Wonderful World, Bach to Bacharach.
Breabach (Scotland)
The haunting strains of two
Highland bagpipes have become the defining sound of
Breabach. This young, multi-award-winning quintet stays true
to the origins of traditional Scottish music, whilst
effortlessly and artfully challenging its boundaries.
Charming and dynamic on stage, Breabach is the new face of
Scottish folk.
Danyel Waro (Réunion)
Propelled by
chants and raucous percussion, maloya is the musical emblem
of the French Indian Ocean island of Réunion – and Danyel
Waro is its most important ambassador. Musician, poet,
instrument-maker and militant supporter of Creole culture,
Waro brings together the island’s essential African, Asian
and European influences in pulsing rhythms that are stirring
and infectious.
Dub Inc (France / Algeria)
Darling of
Europe’s festival circuit, yet ignored by the mainstream
media, Dub Inc conveys a host universal messages through the
sheer energy of their live shows. French roots-reggae
revivalists, this extraordinary seven-piece band combines
dancehall, dub, ska and hip-hop, African and Arab music,
sung in a mix of languages.
La Chiva Gantiva (Colombia /
Belgium))
Taking Colombia’s rich musical history as its
starting point, la Chiva Gantiva has mixed a Molotov
cocktail of rock, rap, soul and ferociously funky Latin
rhythms. Formed in Brussels by expat Colombian musicians,
La Chiva Gantiva are a truly explosive mix of danceable,
percussion-heavy sounds that takes cumbia, funk and Afrobeat
to giddy new heights.
Makana (USA)
Hawaiian
guitarist Makana has been hailed as a star by Metallica’s
Kirk Hammett and flamenco master Pepe Romero. He has evolved
his own dynamic, high-octane style of slack key guitar,
transforming the 200-year-old tradition into a modern sound
bathed in bluegrass, rock, blues and raga that’s been
dubbed ‘slack rock’.
Osaka Monaurail
(Japan)
Japan’s funkiest orchestra takes its lead,
unashamedly, from James Brown. Ryo Nakata drops into the
splits and howls a soulful scream while his sharp suited
7-piece band purrs like a high-performance soul machine.
Deriving its name from the JB’s 1975 funk hit, Osaka
Monaurail celebrated its 20-year anniversary with its first
North American tour in 2012.
Roberto Fonseca
(Cuba)
Roberto Fonseca is the new lion of Latin jazz. The
former piano prodigy of The Buena Vista Social Club has over
the last decade grabbed Cuban music by the horns and dared
to explore the rhythmical hotbed of where Cuba meets Mali.
On stage, Roberto is an irrepressible piano-hammering force
of nature.
The Bads (New Zealand/Aotearoa)
In a former
life, as The Julie Dolphin, Brett Adams and Dianne Swann
toured extensively in the UK, opened for Green Day, Oasis
and Radiohead among others. Now back in NZ as The Bads they
have released two albums and are regular contributors to
many of NZ music’s biggest names.
Weird Together (New
Zealand/Aotearoa)
Weird Together is the new studio and
live project from NZ Producer / DJ extraordinaire Dick
Johnson and George FM Breakfast and Making Tracks host Nick
Dwyer. Weird Together celebrates the pairs shared love of
exotic global sounds, showcasing their vibrancy while giving
them a massive club overhaul, engineering big-room dance
music fit for the festival
stage.
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