Botanic Park, AdelaideWith Mavis Staples, Aldous Harding and Spinifex Gum in the lineup, the world
music festival offered plenty of reasons to look up from our phones – and towards each other
If Womadelaide had been held a few weeks later, the coronavirus
bomb that is detonating over the world may have stopped the festival’s 28th year in its tracks.
With more than 97,000 people congregating in an Adelaide park to see 70 music and dance acts from 32 countries, it simply wouldn’t have passed the elbow-tapping greeting test.