WOMADelaide Expands 2026 Festival Line-up

A month after organisers confirmed the first artist announcement for next year’s WOMADelaide, a new crop of acts has been added to the line-up.

Today, another twenty artists have been added to the festival, which will take place across the March long weekend (6-9 March) in Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla. Exclusive WOMADelaide performers include trailblazers Arrested Development, artist and activist Oumou Sangaré, and beloved pop icon Jovanotti, who will headline the festival's opening night.

Also added today are a diverse bunch of acts, including BADBADNOTGOOD, MY BABY, Annie & The Caldwells, festival favourites KAIIT and Mama Kin Spender, newcomer Alcides Neto, and more. You can check out the full artist announcement below.

Next year’s WOMADelaide promises to showcase 600 artists in 69 groups from 38 countries, embodying the event’s reputation as “the world’s festival.”

The newly announced acts join previously announced artists such as Yothu Yindi, Obongjayar, Kankawa Nagarra, Baker Boy, Troy Cassar-Daley, accompanied by a string quartet; London-based DJ Jyoty, all-female Moroccan group Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou, and more.

Tickets and more information about next year’s festival can be found on the WOMADelaide website.

“We are delighted to announce these amazing artists joining us in the finishing touches to our line-up, to grace the WOMADelaide stages over the March long weekend,” said WOMADelaide Director, Ian Scobie. “Whether you’re already a fan or getting to know these artists for the first time, WOMADelaide 2026 is ready for you.”

WOMAD founder, Peter Gabriel, added, “It's brilliant to have an audience that cares so much about what WOMAD is, could be, and stands for. In a world in which many bad actors seem to be achieving power by fanning the flames of hatred, racism and division, a meeting place for all the world’s cultures and dreams, built on mutual respect, seems all the more precious.”

WOMADelaide 2026

ARTIST LINE-UP (Newly announced acts in bold)

• Åkervinda (Sweden)

• Alcides Neto (Brazil/AUS)

• Alfio Antico & Go Dugong (Italy)

• Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy (Ghana)

• Annahstasia (USA)

• Annie & The Caldwells (USA)

• Any Young Mechanic (AUS)

• Arrested Development (USA)

• Ashkan Shafiei (Iran/AUS)

• Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou (Morocco)

• Australian Art Orchestra with Kojoe & Hikaru Tanaka — Raw Denshi (Japan/AUS)

• BADBADNOTGOOD (Canada)

• Baker Boy (AUS)

• Balaganesan & Bageswari (India)

• BARKAA (AUS)

• Beoga (Ireland)

• Bhutan Balladeers (Bhutan)

• Blinky Bill (Kenya)

• Bobby Alu (Samoa/AUS)

• Born in a Taxi – Higher Order, Illuminati, Please Wait Here, Sleep Keepers & Zebras (AUS)

• BVT (Philippines/AUS)

• Chloe Loftus Dance – The Air Between Us (NZ/Belgium)

• Cie Hors Surface – Le poids des Nuages & HOME, Damien Droin (France)

• Crazy P (DJ set) (UK)

• Daughters of Donbas (Ukraine/Canada)

• Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek (Germany)

• Džambo Aguševi Orchestra (Macedonia)

• Fantastic Negrito (USA)

• Ganavya (India/USA)

• GANNA (Ukraine)

• Georgia Knight (AUS)

• Iron & Wine (USA)

• Jalen Ngonda (USA/UK)

• Jovanotti (Italy)

• Jyoty (UK)

• KAIIT (PNG/AUS)

• Kankawa Nagarra (AUS)

• La Perla (Colombia)

• The Lazy Eyes (AUS)

• Lewis Major Projects – Triptych REDUX (AUS)

• MĀ (NZ)

• Mama Kin Spender (AUS)

• Mantis (Vanuatu)

• Marlon Williams (NZ)

• Maryam Rahmani (Iran/AUS)

• Meganesia (PNG/AUS/West Papua)

• Megatronic (UK)

• Mungo's Hi Fi feat. Eva Lazarus (UK)

• MY BABY (The Netherlands/NZ)

• My Chérie (South Africa/AUS)

• Nattali Rize (AUS/Jamaica)

• The Necks (AUS)

• Nusantara Beat (The Netherlands)

• Obongjayar (Nigeria/UK)

• Orange Blossom (France)

• Osadía (Spain)

• Oumou Sangaré (Mali)

• Roberto Fonseca (Cuba)

• Rosas – Rosas danst Rosas, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Belgium)

• Sama' Abdulhadi (Palestine)

• SAN DRAGAN (Myanmar/China/AUS)

• Stan's Café – Of All The People In All The World & The Commentators (UK)

• Troy Cassar-Daley (AUS)

• Xylourides (Greece)

• YASHA (Japan/AUS)

• Yothu Yindi (AUS)

• Yuka Okazaki (Japan/France)

• The Zawose Queens (Tanzania)

• Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange (AUS)

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