Latest Style Blog: Festivals: WOMAD
WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international arts festival, founded by English rock musician Peter Gabriel with Thomas Brooman, Bob Hooton, Mark Kidel, Stephen Pritchard, Martin Elbourne, and Jonathan Arthur. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the world’ many forms of music, arts and dance. The first WOMAD festival was held in Shepton Mallet, UK in 1982. Gabriel and his company funded WOMAD, faced financial ruin from high costs of the festival in its very first year, but at the suggestion of Tony Smith, the manager of Gabriel and Genesis, they agreed to play together for a single show, thus rescuing the company and enabling further WOMAD events to take place. Since 1982, WOMAD started traveling to other parts of the world, bringing artists to various locations and entertaining over one million people.