Gui de - Taranaki Arts Festival Trust

Amparo Sánchez (Spain)
After 11 years with her influential band Amparanoia, vivacious and powerful
singer Amparo Sánchez has embarked on a striking solo project - a new
album. Expanding on her exuberant roots-reggae-Cuban style, she called the
album Tucson-Habana - highly appropriate, considering the dry Americana
influence of her collaborators Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico.
Fri, 7.15pm, Shell Gables Stage, 1 of 2 • Sat, 3pm, Nova Energy Taste the World
Sat, 8.15pm, Todd Brooklands Stage, 2 of 2 • Sun, 2pm, Chimney Stage, W/S
Aotearoa National
Māori Choir with
The Yoots (NZ/Aotearoa)
The iconic National Māori Choir is
reforming especially for WOMAD.
Featuring 80 voices from around
New Zealand, Māori waiata we all
love, and accompanied by WOMAD
2012 crowd favourites, The Yoots,
get ready for what must surely
be New Zealand’s biggest singalong.
See page 52 for lyrics.
Sun, 6.30pm, TSB Bowl Stage, 1 of 1
Ayarkhaan (Russia)
Ayarkhaan is preserving and
revitalising the music of the
Yakuts, the indigenous people of
the Sakha Republic in Siberia.
The three women’s ethereal vocals,
combined with khomus (Jew’s harp,
an instrument that legend says
was made by the gods) create an
amazing sound that borders on
the realms of electronica.
Sat, 12pm, Todd Brooklands Stage, 1 of 2
Sun, 7.30pm, Dell Stage, 2 of 2
Barnaby Gibbons presents:
Charlie O’Taney,
The Brooklyn
Healer (UK)
After receiving the healing gift
from a dying Chinese oracle, Charlie
O’Taney has transformed himself
from a Brooklyn Mafia hit-man into
a mystic healer. Charlie’s fourdoor
saloon trawls festival sites
presenting his Medicine Man Show,
proffering authentic and somewhat
bizarre remedies for a world
desperately in need of miracles.
consultations
Fri, 6.15pm - 8.15pm
Sat, 1pm - 3pm, and 5pm - 7pm
Sun, 1pm - 3pm, and 5pm - 7pm
Antibalas (USA)
This sensational Brooklyn-based
12-piece has mastered the insistent,
distinctive rhythms that propel
Afrobeat. Conceived in 1998 by
baritone saxophonist Martín Perna as
a cross between the New York Latin
funk grooves of Eddie Palmieri,
Harvey Averne and Mandrill with
the Afrobeat jams of the late Fela
Kuti, Antibalas gradually shifted
towards Fela’s seminal Africa 70
band. It qualified Antibalas as
pioneers in the second wave of
Afrobeat, defined by blazing horns
and unrelenting bass and percussion.
By arrangement with
Billions Australia.
Sun, 2pm, TSB Bowl Stage, 1 of 1
Bassekou Kouyaté
and Ngoni Ba (Mali)
One of the true masters of the ngoni, a stringed
instrument found throughout West Africa, Bassekou
Kouyaté has performed with artists such as Taj Mahal
and the late Ali Farka Touré and is now making his own
distinct musical waves with his band Ngoni Ba. Taught
to play ngoni by his father, Bassekou won fame as a
backing musician for star female griot singers in the
mid-1980s. He soon crossed paths with extraordinary
kora player Toumani Diabate and eventually joined his
landmark Symmetric Orchestra. Accommodating elements of
western harmony and jazz, Bassekou added three additional
strings to his ngoni to provide a wider melodic range.
Fri, 8.15pm, Nova Energy Taste the World • Sat, 1pm, Chimney Stage, W/S
Sat, 8.15pm, Shell Gables Stage, 1 of 2 • Sun, 7.30pm, Todd Brooklands Stage, 2 of 2
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