Glasgow's first-ever World of Music, Arts and Dance Festival (WOMAD) will be taking place in Kelvingrove Park between 3 and 4 ...

An international music, arts, and dance festival that is regularly held in Wiltshire will have a second event elsewhere next year.

A group that campaigns to protect animals in captivity has called for a music festival planned at Bristol Zoo to be boycotted. The Captive Animals Protection Society said noise from the Womad festival ...

Glasgow is set to host an international music, arts and dance festival celebrating cultural expression from around the globe.

Polio crippled the members of Staff Benda Bilili. It hasn't stopped them dancing. The eight-piece band from the Democratic Republic of Congo whirled across the stage, wheelchairs swaying in time with ...

Collaborating at a distance has been a new experience for leading New Zealand chamber music ensemble NZTrio. The group – Ashley Brown (cello), Justine Cormack (violin) and Sarah Watkins (piano) – is ...

Pop festivals these days all seem to have the same goal in mind — to create a specific kind of musical environment, and then take it out on the road. Lollapalooza is the Alternative Nation’s touring ...

BBC Radio 3 celebrates the music and artists of WOMAD in two special Music Planet programmes on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July, the weekend the festival was due to take place prior to its cancellation ...

The British promoter was lauded for his "passion for all the music he touched" by fellow WOMAD founder Peter Gabriel. By Gil Kaufman Alan James, one of the early supporters of the world music festival ...

Ethiopiques, Solomon Burke and Fat Freddy's Drop are headlining this year's Womad (World Of Music, Arts & Dance), The Independent can reveal as media partner to the 27-year-old festival. Among the ...