(headline image: WOMEX 24 Official Showcase Artist – Rasha Nahas (Palestine / Germany))
WOMEX 2024 organizers announced the complete lineup for the Jury-selected Showcases, Horizons Stage (the Regional stage), and the Club Summit artists. The 2024 edition of influential world music conference WOMEX will take place in Manchester, UK, October 23–27, 2024
The upcoming 30th edition of WOMEX will feature 47 acts representing 37 countries, not including the offWOMEX line-up, the Opening program artists and the WOMEX Award recipients, that will be announced in the coming weeks.
The second set of Jury-selected WOMEX 24 Showcase artists are:
- Aysanabee (Canada)
- Barrut (France)
- Eda Diaz (Colombia / France)
- El Laberinto del Coco (Puerto Rico)
- Madalitso Band (Malawi)
- Mitsune (Japan / Germany)
- Orchestra Baobab (Senegal / Benin / Togo)
- Pankisi Ensemble (Georgia)
- Queralt Lahoz (Spain)
- Rasha Nahas (Palestine / Germany)
- Sahra Halgan (France)
- Sarab (Syria / France)
- Stogie T (South Africa)
The first set of artists announced earlier this year includes:
- Adédèji (Nigeria)
- Ali Doğan Gönültaş (Turkey)
- Batsükh Dorj (Mongolia)
- BIM (Benin International Musical) (Benin)
- Chakam Ensemble (Iran / Palestine / France)
- Clare Sands (Ireland)
- Cristina Clara (Portugal)
- Ensamble B11 (Venezuela)
- Erol Josué (Haiti)
- Ganna (Ukraine / Germany)
- House of Waters (Japan / Argentina / USA)
- Jonathan Ferr (Brazil)
- Justin Adams & Mauro Durante (UK / Italy)
- Kabaka Pyramid (Jamaica)
- Kamakan (Iran / France)
- Katarina Barruk (Norway / Sweden)
- Les Mamans du Congo x Rrobin (Congo / France)
- Pelkkä Poutanen (Finland)
- Sara Curruchich (Guatemala)
- Votia (La Réunion)
The official program is put together from the pool of proposals that are received from around the world during an open call for submissions, open to any artist residing in any country worldwide. Altogether more than 1900 conferences, showcases, and film proposals were received. The official program is curated together by the annually changing independent and international WOMEX Jury.
For more information about WOMEX go to womex.com
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