RAIN didn’t deter 35,000 revellers from making the most of this year’s WOMAD festival.

Now in its 33rd year, the internationally recognised arts festival, held at Charlton Park in Malmesbury, is always a popular event among locals and this year it didn’t disappoint, with another high-energy weekend of world music.

The festival brought artistes together from every corner of the globe, including Syria, Tibet, Mali, Senegal and South Korea among others. More than 120 performers from 53 different countries were featured on the bill in total.

WOMAD was opened on Thursday by pupils from local schools making up the Malmesbury Schools' Project. They took to the stage with Tomorrow's Warriors, a collective which features the cream of the UK's jazz talent, kicking the festival off with a local touch.

Bellowhead, Britain's most successful traditional folk act, were among the headliners at WOMAD. They were joined by hip-hop legends De La Soul and The Cat Empire, who closed the weekend.