Womad 2010 | World music review

Charlton Park, WiltshireThis year's Womad will be remembered for a real-life world-music fairytale, as Staff Benda Bilili, the band formed by Congolese polio victims, made their first British festival appearance. Four of them came on in wheelchairs, another was on crutches, and they were the most rousing, enthusiastic performers of the weekend. They had reason to celebrate. The band have overcome disability and hardship to become international stars, and their blend of Congolese rumba, funk and ...

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