The WOMEX family has grown exponentially over the years - from hosting around 300 professionals at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany in its first year, to a gathering of over 2,700 professionals from ninety-two countries now. And now we see new delegates and new artists, born after that first edition: they come to WOMEX 19 with a lifetime of world music in their ears and minds and repertoires.
Over the last twenty-five years, the music and the music business has evolved - and so has WOMEX. However, one thing that has been constant since our inception is the core intent of celebrating creativity and diversity as a community — supporting ground-breaking new talents and honouring the established maestros; lauding tradition and the innovations to tradition; loving the richness of the rooted local, and the rightful celebration of our global voice. From conference presentation to trade-fair conversation, from fragile and intimate listening moments to the body-shaking of the tent-boomers: we are positive, we are ready.
