Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD Festival to return in new location for 2026

The Wiltshire arts festival has revealed its new home for 2026 after a year-long hiatus.

Date published: 30th Oct 2025

Long-running Wiltshire arts festival World of Music, Arts, and Dance (WOMAD) will return to a new home next year. The festival, which attracts around 40,000 visitors a year, took a year-long hiatus during 2025 while searching for a new site near its former home at Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, where it had been based since 2007. 

Co-founded by Peter Gabriel in 1980 to celebrate the world’s many forms of music, arts, and dance, WOMAD has seen many homes since its inception, beginning in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, before bouncing across sites in Bristol, Essex, Berkshire, and Wiltshire throughout its storied history. Having previously cancelled its 2021 edition due to the COVID pandemic, the festival promised to return “truly independent”, and Gabriel has announced its new home, Neston Park Estate near Corsham, in a statement. The festival will mark the first time where the country estate is open to the public for any event. 

Tickets for WOMAD Festival 2026, which will transform Neston Park from Thursday 23rd to Sunday 26th July 2026, go on sale on Thursday 13th November.

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