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GALLERY: Around 96,000 people converged at WOMADelaide over the long weekend to see 70 acts including jazz musician Kamasi Washington, sitar player Anoushka Shankar, the mesmerising Manganiyar Seduction and controversial feather-filled aerial show Place des Anges.
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Around 70 solo musicians and groups from around the world will perform at WOMADelaide in Botanic Park this long weekend. Here, director Ian Scobie gives InDaily his top 10 must-see musicians and shows.
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At WOMADelaide this year, poet and activist Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner will bring immediacy to the climate change debate with her first-hand experience of its consequences on her home, the Marshall Islands.
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