Murray Bramwell previews Womadelaide 2003

Womadelaide celebrates ten years next month and it is now a leading fixture on the city’s cultural calendar. So much so, in fact, that Premier Mike Rann recently negotiated keenly to keep the event in Adelaide despite counter bids from Sydney and Melbourne. Womad UK director Thomas Brooman drove a hard bargain – as well he might, to secure one of the more successful Womad festivals anywhere – by insisting that Adelaide become an annual …