Affirmation For Tradition. Womadelaide 2004 [review]

Abstract

This year was going to be a testing one for Womadelaide. It was the beginning of annual stagings of the event and the first time, since inception in 1992, that it had been re-incorporated into the Adelaide Festival. Some of us predicted that this might be a bumpy change and we were quite wrong. Attendance figures show that Womad this year has been the best ever with figures of 70,077, up by several thousand on 2003 and around six thousand from 2001.