FINAL PRESS RELEASE * WOMEX 09 Copenhagen: Alive and Kicking

(Photo: WOMEX 09 Award Ceremony, Staff Benda Bilili) A record year, a successful event. There have now been 15 editions of WOMEX, the World Music Expo, that began with about 200 delegates and has now expanded to over 2700. During that time, this fledgling movement has expanded to become a diverse, multicultural, increasingly popular expression of interest in world culture. And, in the process, WOMEX has become the premier professional event in the international world music calendar.

• article submitted by: Anna Pötzsch, piranha womex AG (expo)

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• WOMEX 09: Final Press Release