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{{Short description|British music promoter}}
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| nationality = British
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| occupation = Music consultant & festival organiser
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| known_for = Co-founder of the [[World of Music, Arts and Dance|WOMAD]] festival & [[Real World Records]]
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| spouse = Amanda Emily Brooman (''née'' Budd)
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▲|Frederick Spencer Brooman, Beatrice Lily Peachey
▲|}|alt=Thomas Brooman CBE]]
'''Thomas Brooman'''
==Early life==
Born in Bristol in 1954, he attended [[Bristol Grammar School]] and spent time during his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He attended [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]], reading English Language and Literature at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] under the tutorship of [[Jonathan Wordsworth]], graduating in 1976. The second child in an academic family, his father Frederick S. Brooman<ref>{{cite web |url
Returning to Bristol after graduation from Oxford, Thomas took a path in music, firstly as a drummer during the heyday of punk music in the late
▲Born in Bristol in 1954, he attended Bristol Grammar School and spent time during his childhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He attended [[University of Oxford|Oxford University]], reading English Language and Literature at [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]] under the tutorship of [[Jonathan Wordsworth]], graduating in 1976. The second child in an academic family, his father Frederick S. Brooman<ref>{{cite web|url = http://bnb.data.bl.uk/doc/resource/008358763|title = British National Bibliography}}</ref> was an author and economics lecturer at Bristol University, subsequently Professor of Economics at The Open University.
▲Returning to Bristol after graduation from Oxford, Thomas took a path in music, firstly as a drummer during the heyday of punk music in the late ‘seventies with several bands in Bristol, including The Media, The Spics and The Tesco Chainstore Massacre. In 1980, with a group of friends, he established a record magazine publication called [[Bristol record labels|The Bristol Recorder]], and through this project made contact with the English artist [[Peter Gabriel]] with whom the concept of WOMAD<ref>{{cite web|url = https://realworldrecords.com/news/article/1334/thomas-brooman-cbe/|title = Real World Records Web Site|date = }}</ref> was born.
==WOMAD Festival==
In early 1981, with Peter Gabriel and a group of colleagues, including [[Martin Elbourne]], chef Jonathan Arthur, Stephen Pritchard and Bob Hooton, Thomas devised and organised the first WOMAD Festival in 1982.<ref>{{cite
▲In early 1981, with Peter Gabriel and a group of colleagues, including [[Martin Elbourne]], chef Jonathan Arthur, Stephen Pritchard and Bob Hooton, Thomas devised and organised the first WOMAD Festival in 1982<ref>{{cite web|title=The Daily Telegraph|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-festivals/10020737/Best-music-festivals-of-2013-3.-Womad.html}}</ref>. Over the following twenty six years he then worked as Festival and Artistic Director of the WOMAD Festival, leading the establishment of WOMAD as an organisation and its affiliated charity, the WOMAD Foundation, in 1983. WOMAD Festivals helped to establish a wider audience for many international artists and contributed to the identification of world music as a description of music from a global context.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.britannica.com/art/world-music|title = Encyclopedia Britannica}}</ref>
As Artistic Director of WOMAD, through until 2008, he programmed and collaborated in the production of more than one hundred and forty five WOMAD Festivals and events in twenty-four countries<ref name="BBC-CBE">{{cite web |url
==Other activities==
In 1987 he co-founded Real World Records,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://itsrainmakingtime.com/thomas-brooman-music-mentorship-mastery/ |title=Thomas Brooman: Music, Mentorship, & Mastery |first=Kim |last=Greenhouse |date=27 April 2015 |website=It's Rainmaking Time! |
▲In 1987 he co-founded Real World Records<ref>{{cite web|title=It's Rainmaking Time|url=http://itsrainmakingtime.com/thomas-brooman-music-mentorship-mastery/}}</ref>, a label conceived as a creative partnership<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.folkradio.co.uk/2014/10/real-world-25-interview-with-label-manager-amanda-jones/|title = Folk Radio}}</ref> between Peter Gabriel and the WOMAD organisation.
In 2000, Thomas also ventured into the world of pub ownership
Since 2008 he has worked as a music advisor
Described by the BBC as having an
==Awards and
Described by ''[[The Times]]'' newspaper as a
In 2008 he was made a
==References==▼
==External sources==▼
'''Citations'''
{{Reflist}}
'''Bibliography'''
* {{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/jul/15/artsfeatures2 |title=The world is their oyster |first=Mark |last=Espiner |date=15 July 1999 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.worldmusic.co.uk/home_festival_dartington_22-23612_review |title=Home Festival, Dartington (22-23 June 2012) - Review |first=Glyn |last=Phillips |date=26 June 2012 |website=worldmusic.co.uk}}
* {{cite web |url=http://openbuildings.com/buildings/palace-hotel-bristol-profile-19371 |title=Palace Hotel, Bristol |website=openbuildings.com}}▼
*[http://www.creativeyouthnetwork.org.uk/
*[http://www.swms.org.uk/ South West Music School]
*[https://wmfpodcast.org/thomas-brooman-world-music/ Interview on The World Music Foundation Podcast]
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▲==References==
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▲* http://openbuildings.com/buildings/palace-hotel-bristol-profile-19371
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[[Category:Businesspeople from Bristol]]
[[Category:People educated at Bristol Grammar School]]
[[Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:20th-century English businesspeople]]
[[Category:21st-century English businesspeople]]
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