WOMEX

WOMEX (short for World Music Expo) is an international world music support and development project based in Berlin, whose main event is an exposition held annually in different locations throughout Europe. It integrates a trade fair, showcases, conferences, film screenings, networking sessions, and awards. Musicians and their labels have the possibility to make contacts for international touring and album distribution.[1]

For 2009-2011, WOMEX was hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark in a new partnership with WorldMusicFair Copenhagen, a consortium of the Roskilde Festival, the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and tourist organization Wonderful Copenhagen. Additional partners were the events producers Welcome, the Danish Center for Culture and Development, Global CPH and World Music Denmark. Other locations of past WOMEX events: Berlin (1994, 1999, 2000), Brussels (1995), Marseille (1997), Stockholm (1998), Rotterdam (2001), Essen (2002, 2004), Newcastle upon Tyne (2005) and Seville (2003, 2006, 2007, 2008).

WOMEX 12 was held in Thessaloniki, and WOMEX 13 in Cardiff.[2] WOMEX 14 was held in Santiago de Compostela, and the 2015 edition of WOMEX will be held in Budapest.[3]

Event

WOMEX runs during October every year, and in many cases, during the last October weekend. On site registration begins on Wednesday, when the opening ceremony is held. Conference attendees can visit the opening event, the conference program, the trade fair, the showcases on the evenings of Thursday, Friday and Saturday and the WOMEX awards on Sunday, the last day of the event. Although WOMEX is primarily intended for professionals and trade visitors within the world music scene, locals and tourists can buy tickets for most of the evening showcases.

Company

WOMEX was begun in 1994. Founders include Christoph Borkowsky[1] and Ben Mandelson.[4]

Awards

Main article: WOMEX Awards

The WOMEX Awards were first introduced in 1999. Since then, WOMEX presents its awards to artists or professionals each year for special achievements in the international music industry. Since 2006 WOMEX, in coordination with World Music Charts Europe, has presented three Top Label Awards for the labels who had the most chart topping CDs.

Other music fairs

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pareles, Jon (31 October 2005). "Castanets and Slide Ukuleles, Looking for a Chance to Be Heard". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "WOMEX 13 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom".
  3. ↑ "WOMEX 15 IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY ｜21 - 25 OCTOBER 2015". womex.com. 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Davis, Barry (31 December 2014). "Worldly sounds". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

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