Open 1 May - 1 July 2024
Important Information
ARTIST EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
Important - please read before applying.
The next WOMADelaide will be held from Friday 7 – Monday 10 March 2025 in Botanic Park / Tainmuntilla, in inner city Adelaide, South Australia.
The festival began in 1992 and features 7 open-air stages with around 90 music and dance performances, street theatre/site installation artists, workshops, the Taste the World cooking program, The Planet Talks environmental discussions, a KidZone and more.
The program of 65+ groups from across Australia and the world is curated over many months by the festival’s programming team, which is based in Adelaide. Most decisions are made between early July and early October.
Visit our archive to get an idea of the scope of previous programs. Broadly speaking, each year we aim to program a brand new, diverse mix of traditional and contemporary, original music (not covers) of a very high standard.
Commercial rock, opera and R&B are not usually featured, and a strong live show is an important consideration. The vast majority of performances are with live instrumentation, not ‘playback’ DJ+vox format.
If you are invited to perform, we provide a performance fee, local hotel accommodation, production/technical requirements including backline, marketing/publicity and ground transport hotel-venue-airport etc. We also book and pay for the relevant travel costs (return flights, excess baggage and temporary entertainment visas).
Where an external promoter is producing a broader Australia-NZ tour, and we are buying in the Adelaide/NZ show/s we provide a delivered/landed fee to the promoter, plus local accommodation, production/technical, marketing/publicity and ground transport. In this instance the promoter is responsible for all travel arrangements.
WOMADelaide also produces the international artist program for WOMAD New Zealand, which is held the weekend after WOMADelaide (Friday 14 – Sunday 16 March 2025) in New Plymouth, Taranaki, NZ.
The program announcements for the festivals are usually in mid October and late November.
Please note –
- If you performed at the most recent festival, you will not be considered. Return/repeat artists usually have a few years between visits
- 400+ applications are received via this online portal and other approaches, in addition to the invitations/proposals developed and pursued directly by the programming team
- You will receive acknowledgment of your application. After that, no further emails will be sent by the festival unless more information is needed, or an invitation is forthcoming
- Unfortunately, there is not enough time to service ongoing enquiries, or advise if you have not been successful.
- We do not take applications for workshops, Taste the World, The Planet Talks or KidZone
- Links to download files via Dropbox/WeTransfer (or similar) will not be opened.
Thank you for your understanding.