First Womad festival

July 1982: Number 39 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicPeter Gabriel could be accused of many things in the course of his career, but one undoubted plus point is Womad, the World of Music Arts and Dance organisation that he co-founded in 1980. Their first festival took place two years later in Shepton Mallet with a line-up that included the former Genesis frontman, Don Cherry, the Beat, the Drummers of Burundi, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Chieftains, Imrat Kha...

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