Apparently one of the few profitable Womads and 17 or so years on it's a shame they have spread themselves too thin. From every second year and 3 days ,leaving a public holiday to get home interstate, it is now every year and a 4 day festival - that' 0.375 of the original potency by my calculation ..and it shows. Aussie bands headlining , street theatre billed as scheduled acts.High points -hypnotic brass, Dean and Britta, Mamadou Diabate , Djan Djan featuring Diabate on kora , Aussie slide gun Jeff Lang and indian tabla player bobby singh. 90 year old Ravi Shankar and daughter headlined today in a valedictory tour but I missed as I could only manage 3 days away.