WOMEX - World Music Expo

WOMEX :

• 2,440 delegates and 1,360 companies from 94 countries.
• 850 concert and festival bookers.
• 600 labels, publishers and distributors.
• 700 managers and 350 producers.
• 350 national and international journalists, incl. 170 radio broadcasters.
• A bustling Trade Fair with 260 stands and 650 exhibiting companies.
• 59 Showcase acts with 300 artists from 38 countries on 6 stages.
• More than 60 speakers in 20 Conference Sessions; a Mentoring programme; a new Matchmaking service for publishers and Country Speed-Dating.
• A festive Opening Concert – The Chaosmos of Korean Music: Heaven, Earth and Human – presenting three of the finest bands on the contemporary Korean music scene.
• Three WOMEX Awards honouring the artist Danyèl Waro from La Réunion; fRoots Chief Editor Ian Anderson, UK, on behalf of the independent press; and top label world village/harmonia mundi based in France/USA/UK/Spain.
• The Roskilde Festival World Music Award presented to the Dhow Countries Music Academy, Tanzania.
• The WOMEX World Music Film Market, in cooperation with the International Music + Media Centre IMZ, Austria.
• Numerous Networking Meetings, Presentations and Receptions.
• The Radio WOMEX broadcasting studio for live interviews and performances, organised by NRK from Norway.
• The WOMEX TV Studio and Webcast, in cooperation with Mondomix, France.
• virtualWOMEX – the professional future of world music online.

All this and more to come in 2011.