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Today, WOMAD NZ reveals the festival day schedule for the 2023 festival in what has become a welcome pre-Christmas tradition.

One of the best aspects of WOMAD is that most acts put on repeat performances over the weekend, allowing festival goers the chance to see their favourites perform twice or to schedule the weekend around the exclusive one-off performances,

Artists scheduled for exclusive one-off festival performances include; Afghan singer Elaha Soroor and eclectic London-based ensemble Kefaya, Zambian rapper Sampa The Great, and the incredible Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour and local talents Fly My Pretties and Rubi Du, the highly anticipated Avantdale Bowling Club and Auckland-based Nigerian hip-hop artist Mazbou Q.

Encouraging fans to discover new sounds and future favourites, WOMAD New Zealand 2023, welcomes double festival performances from multi-award-winning Korean folk-pop group ADG7, Franco-Moroccan psychedelic rock band Bab L'Bluz, Grammy Award-winning Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Afro-Cuban rockstar Cimafunk, early music ensemble Constantinople, soul and R&B singer Deva Mahal and three-time Grammy-winning rock and roll, funk, R&B activist Fantastic Negrito.

Attendees will be treated to the Indian classical music of Pandit Ronu Majumdar & Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh, Justin Adams & Mauro Durante's trance rhythms of Taranta and Afro-Indigenous Music from Belize & Honduras's The Garifuna Collective twice throughout the festival.

And, acapella trio Acapollinations, psychedelic indie group KITA, Pacifica women's ensemble Le Moana, 11-strong German techno marching band MEUTE, Tuareg songwriter Mdou Moctar, vibrant dance group Mudra Dance Company, Japanese Drum Team Narukami Taiko, Argentinian Grammy Award-winning ensemble; Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, Pakistani Qawwali group Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali, modern Occitan troubadours San Salvador, Romany folk supergroup Taraf de Caliu and dynamic Scottish three-piece The Langan Band will perform repeated sets across the weekend.

Three days at WOMAD NZ rivals an around-the-world trip.

Outside of the live music programme, the WOMAD festival also showcases people at the top of their fields pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo. Today, WOMAD reveals The OMV STEAM Lab speakers for 2023.

OMV STEAM Lab, a place of wonder where Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics unite with inventors and innovators. The 2023 line-up includes; Morgana Watson, an avid gamer and the creative director for 4Phase Games, author and much-loved painter Dick Frizzell, physicist-turned-author Laurie Winkless, Guinness World Record holder and kite maker Peter Lynn, scientist, bees and wasp specialist Phil Lester, meteorologist Lisa Murray and Professor of applied mathematics Professor Hinke Osinga.

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