World Music Expo
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The WOrld Music EXpo (WOMEX) is the world's largest music fair for world , roots , ethnic , traditional and local music and folk. The international event has been held annually since 1994 (except for 1996) in various major European cities. Every year around 700 exhibitors from over 50 countries, 2,600 trade visitors and 300 journalists come. In addition to the trade fair, there are conferences, film screenings and a music festival with over 60 performances on 7 stages followed by club evenings with DJs. As part of the event, three different prizes are awarded every year: The WOMEX Artist Award, the WOMEX Professional Excellence Award and the WOMEX Label Award. In order to enable communication and networking of the world music community (regardless of the trade fair) throughout the year, an additional online platform was developed - the virtualWOMEX.
Venues
The World Music Expo took place in the following cities so far:
- 1994: Berlin
- 1995: Brussels
- 1997: Marseille
- 1998: Stockholm
- 1999: Berlin
- 2000: Berlin
- 2001: Rotterdam
- 2002: Essen
- 2003: Seville
- 2004: Essen
- 2005: Newcastle
- 2006: Seville
- 2007: Seville
- 2008: Seville
- 2009: Copenhagen
- 2010: Copenhagen
- 2011: Copenhagen
- 2012: Thessaloniki
- 2013: Cardiff
- 2014: Santiago de Compostela
- 2015: Budapest
- 2016: Santiago de Compostela
- 2017: Katowice
- 2018: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- 2019: Tampere
- 2020: the event should take place in Budapest
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Venues ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on Womex.com