The most important international professional market of world music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers.” UNESCO Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity

WOMEX is the world’s biggest professional music Conference, Trade Fair and Showcase for world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional, alternative world, local and diaspora music. Says France’s Le Monde, WOMEX is “the principal market for world music.”

“In these concert halls, conference rooms, and theatres, or even walking the endless aisles of the vast WOMEX trade fair, you could have been just about anywhere – India, Iran, Spain, South Africa, the Balkans, Uzbekistan… WOMEX is overwhelming. Intentionally so… WOMEX showcases are so full of surprises and of staggering talent that it is hard to remain jaded for long… ” Banning Eyre, www.afropop.org