News in from WOMAD : A limited number of Early Bird tickets for next year's Charlton Park Festival are now on sale. Priced at £110 you'll save £15 on the full weekend price but you'll have to be quick the offer ends 16th December 2009. Dates are confimred as 23rd -25th July. Read on for details of the enhancements to WOMAD website...
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Part of the Tower Festival and curated by WOMAD there's a packed weekend of diverse world music on Saturday 19th September Khaled, the king of rai heads the bill with Imagined Village, Nathan Flutebox Lee, Pan Balkan band Paprika Balkanicus and transfixing Korean drummers, Dulsori.
See it, Film it, Change it. Peter Gabriel founded Witness in 1992, an organization that uses video to advance human rights. WITNESS has provided video cameras and training to over 150 groups in 50 countries around the world. WITNESS helps them use video as evidence before courts, regional commissions and the United Nations, as a tool for public education, and as a deterrent to further abuse. WITNESS also gives local human rights groups a global voice, by distributing their video to the media and broadcasting it online 
WOMAD have announced that next years festival at Charlton Park will be on the weekend of 24-26 July 09 and tickets will be on sale as of 31st October. With Early birds tickets being cheaper than the 2008 ticket price and with no increase in prices from 2008.
Over the years, the WOMAD foundation, has worked with many talented musicians world wide. In addition to running workshops and summer schools the foundation are developing an invaluable new initiative. Photo : Paul Tomlins
It was at Sheffield's Boardwalk after a performance with The English Roots Band, that Jah Wobble first mentioned his Chinese Dub project. Eighteen months on, with financial assistance from the Arts Council, The Liverpool Culture Company Ltd, several trips to the Yunnan Province and a terrifying earthquake later, we now have the opportunity to experience the " new Anglo - Chinese aural and visual spectacular". How excited was I ? but as I walked across the city centre, it was like a ghost town and I wondered if there would be enough punters on a Monday evening in July as Wobble came back to the Boardwalk with his Chinese Dub project.
