2001
Previewed by Murray Bramwell
It is February and the “off-year” for the Adelaide Festival, so it must be time for Womadelaide. This is the sixth incarnation -including the Pimba train ride and the McLaren Vale boutique version in 1998- and expectation is now higher than ever. This event has come a long way since its inception as part of the 1992 Festival of Arts. Back then, director Rob Brookman had originally intended to use Belair National Park as the …
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Botanic Park
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
If ever an event is greater than the sum of its parts it is Womadelaide. Now in its fifth edition since inception in 1992 it is the splendid result of careful cultivation and management. If I use a horticultural image it is because Womad, in the verdant environs of Botanic Park, is like a well-tended garden. Its success is a reminder that events need good planning and infrastructure. They also need good resources …
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Botanic Park
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell.
It is the fourth Womadelaide and by now we have very much got the hang of it. The protocols are set, the format is immediately recognisable, the production values continue to be high. There is nothing for it but to join the throng and enjoy Adelaide’s most successful musical picnic.
Womadelaide is quite unique. There can be few other events involving more than sixty thousand participants which run so amiably and smoothly. The …
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The last day of February is the first day of Womadelaide 1997. What began as a part of Rob Brookman’s 1992 Adelaide Festival now continues as a biennial major event. Not only does it have a strong local following but this year’s organisers predict that of the expected 65,000 attendances nearly 8,000 will come from interstate and overseas.
There is good reason for this buoyancy because the Adelaide version of Peter Gabriel’s original Womad concept continues to be …
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Womadelaide
Murray Bramwell talks with Womadelaide organisers Rob Brookman and Thomas
Brooman about the World Music festival’s continuing success.
Adelaide’s Botanic Park is a green haven right in the centre of town. With
its majestic Moreton Bay figs and well-watered meadow, it is bounded by the
zoo on one side and the botanical gardens on the other. Not surprisingly, it
is a favourite spot for a scattered population of picnickers, joggers,
strollers, sketchers, spin bowlers and anybody else fancying …
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Botanic Park
Reviewed by Murray Bramwell
Friday night. Six o’clock. Entering Botanic Park from Frome Road. There is a steady procession of people -in groups, comfortably solo, wheeling bicycles, ferrying their kids, carrying various clobber for the first phase of a three day picnic. The queues run smoothly, tickets are checked , everyone is easy. Pick up your free program and you’re in.
Now in Adelaide for a third time, Womadelaide has an established script. We know what …
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