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Recordings and set lists.

    For most of the history of Womadelaide the good old Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( affectionately known as Auntie ) has documented the festival. However there have been lapses and rather strange turns in policy ( mostly due to budget cuts ) so there are gaps. Also, the ABC only ever set up recording facilities on stages 1-3 and some of the more interesting acts have appeared elsewhere. So its been left to tapers to fill the gaps here and there.

   Now we at the archive do not condone the unofficial taping of shows , especially for commercial gain, but we are an historical archive so we believe that its part of our function to let people know what music has been preserved over the years by whatever means . We present this list in that spirit , we do not know where you can acquire these recordings , whether they be TV , FM, AM or audience recordings and we will not help anyone in their search to acquire them , so please don't waste your time asking as we won't reply- unless you have some official research project you want help with .

2008 Recordings

  The ABC once again decided not to film the festival , so we cannot expect to se any TV broadasts of this year. So far there have been many podcasts available online from community radio, which indicates that radio recordings have been made of many artists but so far only a 50 minute set of Mavis Staples show has been broadcast on ABC radio Nationals Music Deli program .

All star Jam

03/09/03 Womadelaide stage Two- snippets of the jam are available on Youtube , including one two camera shoot !

Audience and stage source 5 minutes

John Butler Trio

03/07/03 Stage Two Womadelaide

Radio broadcast available as a podcast - 10 minutes.

Also audience sources. 70 minutes.

03/08/03 Stage Two Womadelaide

Audience source 60 minutes.

Setlist: Company Sin , Kaurana acknowledgement, Used to Get High ,Gov Did Nothin', Ocean, Groovin Slowly, Good Excuse > drum solo > Good Excuse , Better Than , Funky Tonight .

Snippets of video are available on Youtube, but most are pretty poor quality.

Beautiful Girls

03-09-03 Womadelaide Stage One

Audience source 50 minutes.

Radio broadcast available as a podcast - 10 minutes.

Snippets of video are available on Youtube.

Radio broadcast available as a podcast- 10 minutes.

Toumane Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra

3-9-08 Womadelaide Stage One

Audience source 50 minutes.

Mista Savona

3-8-08 Womadelaide Stage Three

Audience source 5 mins video . also 2 mins video of Mista Savona dancers

Radio broadcast available as a podcast- 10 minutes.

Mavis Staples

03-07-08 Womadelaide. Stage two

Radio broadcast 50 minutes

Radio broadcast available as a podcast- 10 minutes.

Other podcasts (interviews and performances ) are available at the same link, dunno how long they will be around, listen whilst you can !

Bob Evans
Black Arm Band
Cesaria Evora’s Band
Clube Do Balanco
Don McGlashan and the Seven Sisters
David D’or
Dr Natesan Ramani
Farafina
Martin Hayes and Daniel Cahill
Manjiri Kelkar
Kutcha Edwards Band
Joseph Tawadros
Highway 31

Sarah Blasko
Master Kong Nay and Ouch Savy
Mojo Webb
Joji Hirota Trio
Taraf de Haidouks
Tenzin Cheogyal
Toumani Diabate
Victor Valdes
Watussi