Womad
Vivien Goldman, NME, 24 July 1982
VIVIEN GOLDMAN takes a trip around the WORLD OF MUSIC AND DANCE and discovers that even the beauty of ethnic cultures can be a victim of economic restraints, governmental ignorance and union action. It was one helluva way for the WOMAD organisers to go bust.
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