The bus service offers festival-goers a full 12 hours of the Womad experience.This year's World of Music, Arts and Dance (Womad) festival will be more accessible than ever to potential Wanganui people looking for a taste of what it is all about.
For the first time, there will be bus service
operating from Wanganui to the festival in New Plymouth and back.
The bus deal will operate on one day only of the three-day festival. It will leave at 8.30am from the Wanganui i-Site on Saturday, March 19, and return at midnight.
The ticket and Saturday bus special is $149. One-day passes on Friday and Sunday are $99, and a regular day pass for Saturday is $130. A full three-day pass to the event is $229.
Womad marketing and communications manager Lisa McMullan said ticket sales had been picking up steadily in Wanganui, even though the main promotional push starts next week.
The bus service offers festival- goers a full 12 hours of the Womad experience, which will be an especially good sample for those attending for the first time.
Much more than a music festival, Womad includes cooking sessions with various artists making dishes from their own cultures, outdoor films, dance and music workshops.
A children's area and seating for those over 60 will also be provided, so the whole family could come along.
Womad attracts between 12,000-14,000 people every day.
Acts this year include Afro Celt Sound System (Africa/UK), Amadou and Mariam (Mali) and Calypso Rose (Trinidad and Tobago) as well as Kiwi artists Rhombus, Trinity Roots and the Topp Twins.
Visit www.womad.co.nz for more information.
The festival takes place on 18-20 March 2011 at the Brooklands Park and TSB Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth. Tickets on sale through Ticketek.
