Marie-Noëlle Jaffré
- function: proprietor
- company: Kawa Cultural Centre
participation in
- WOMEX 2003
- WOMEX 2004
- WOMEX 2005
- WOMEX 2006
- WOMEX 2007
- WOMEX 2009
- WOMEX 2011
The French born initiator, Marie-Noëlle Jaffré is the co-founder of Kawa Music, a company for International management and booking of Indian performing arts, based in Jaipur (Rajasthan), where she has been living since 1995.
Former manager of the percussionnist (tablas) and artistic director: Hameed Khan "Kawa", Marie-Noëlle has organized worldwide tours for a number of cross-cultural music, dance and street theatre projects, like "Musafir", Jaipur Kawa Brass Band", "Kawa Circus".
Involved in many International events with local artists, Marie-Noëlle is very active in the music scene and has brought a higher profile for the Indian performing arts, specially the world music.
She expands now her field of action by developing this ambitious project: The Kawa Cultural Centre.
As a art consultant, coach, coordinator, promoter, artist manager, booking agent...Marie-Noëlle encourages performing and visual artists to develop their projects in India and abroad.


