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    In a Womad rush

    Mar 22, 2020 2 minutes
    by SALLY BLUNDELL

    Was this our last dance? The last hurrah under the darkening shadow of the new Sars coronavirus? As Auckland’s Pasifika Festival was cancelled and the service to mark the first anniversary of the Christ-church mosque shootings shelved, 17,000 people filed into New Plymouth’s Pukekura Park for the city’s 16th Womad festival.

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