Friday, 24 July 2015

WOMAD -Day 1- in the rain

We had tickets to WOMAD 2015, a 3 day World Of Music And Dance festival, in Malmesbury, not far from Swindon. We planned to camp. However, the forecast was for rain all day Friday (today) and Sunday, so we changed our minds and decided to just go each day.

We arrived about 5 pm, it having rained all the day up until then. We decided we had to go for a while so donned all our, plus borrowed, wet weather gear and headed off.

Walking in from the carpark...


...through the camping area...


..to the main event.


There were lots of food stalls...




...and convenient eating spots...NOT..


This act, The Correspondents - an electro-swing group - was under a large tent, and had the crowd jumping....


..and even in one of the open arenas where an English folky/sea shanty group, Bellowhead, were playing the crowd was not put off by the rain.



Of course, there were plenty of bars...


..and no reason not to get in to the spirit of things.


Some with a little less enthusiasm



Any form of shelter was taken advantage of...


...but some people were clearly in their element!


There were also fashion in the field contenders.


We left about 9 pm, with the main walkways completely churned to mud.

















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