Womad festival, the worldwide music festival which was co-founded by Peter Gabriel, will be back in 2026 at a different location.

In 2025, the festival had a one-year hiatus to come back in full swing, and it left its venue of Charlton Park, Wiltshire, where it had been based since 2007. It still has its new home in Wiltshire, in the adjacent Neston Park, Corsham.

“It seemed to us at once like a pleasant and inviting home to which we could put down our roots,” Gabriel said.

“As is happening in a world where a great number of bad actors appear to be succeeding in gaining power by fueling the fires of hate, racism, and division, a crossroads of all the cultures and future of the world, constructed on mutual respect, would be even more valuable,” he added.

Womad is a brand name that means World of Music, Arts and Dance, and it features one of the most extensive music scopes in the UK festival industry. Artists are attracted across pop, dance, folk, jazz, hip-hop, and more, and are repelled across the global nations.

Neston Park is a stately house belonging to Sir James and Lady Venetia Fuller: James is a member of the family board of Fuller Brewery, and Venetia is an entrepreneur. “It will be the first time we have opened the estate to an event of any kind, and the message and what Womad represents is something we have been so fond of,” they said.

The festival was first held in Shepton Mallet in 1982 and relocated to near Reading between 1990 and 2006, and then to Charlton Park.