Arrested Development & BADBADNOTGOOD Headline WOMADelaide 2026 Second Artist Lineup Reveal

The announcement includes 20 new artists performing at the annual festival.

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The second WOMADelaide 2026 artist lineup is here, and we are already getting pumped for what promises to be another epic four days of music at Adelaide’s Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla over the March long weekend (6-9).

Italian pop icon Jovanotti will headline the opening night, while hip hop trailblazers Arrested Development and African vocalist and activist Oumou Sangaré will perform exclusively at the festival.

Also announced are Canadian jazz-fusion outfit BADBADNOTGOOD, Netherlands via New Zealand blues-funk trio MY BABY, American gospel family band Annie & The Caldwells and psychedelic Amsterdam-based six-piece Nusantara Beat.

Music lovers can also catch sets from Fantastic Negrito, KAIIT, Mama Kin Spender and Alcides Neto and more, with a total of 20 new artists revealed.

These artists join what is already a stacked lineup featuring legendary Aussie act Yothu Yindi, Yolngu rapper and dancer Baker Boy, American singer-songwriter Iron & Wine, Irish folk band Beoga, Afro-funk innovator Obongjayar, 82-year-old First Nations gospel singer Kankawa Nagarra and many more.

Next year’s edition of the festival will feature more than 600 artists in 69 groups from 38 countries, highlighting the diversity of WOMADelaide and why it is constantly rated as one of the world’s best festivals.

Check out the full lineup so far and grab your tickets for WOMADelaide 2026 via womadelaide.com.au.

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Speaking on the new additions, WOMADelaide director Ian Scobie said, “We are delighted to announce these amazing artists joining us in the finishing touches to our lineup, to grace the WOMADelaide stages over the March long weekend. 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 is held on Kaurna Land at Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from Friday 6 March to Monday 9 March. Tickets on sale now via womadeliade.com.

WOMADElaide 2026 Lineup

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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