WOMADelaide 2014: Carminho

Carminho is, quite simply, the world’s brightest new fado star. After attending university and travelling the world, the 25-year-old decided that singing the passionate ‘Portugese blues’ was her true calling. Her striking 2011 debut album Fado was named album of the year by Songlines magazine and her performances are truly spine-tingling.



WOMADelaide is an annual four-day festival of Music, Arts and Dance, which was first held in 1992 in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia. Part of the WOMAD festivals organisation, WOMADelaide aims to excite, to create, to inform and to highlight awareness of the worth and potential of a multicultural society.^[1] 

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