WOMEX, the year’s major event in world music is coming up

2015. October 22.

This week world music will take up residence in Budapest as the most important world music event of the year, WOMEX will be held at various prestigious cultural venues of the Hungarian capital between 21 and 25 October. The venue of evening concerts, the so-called showcases, will be Müpa Budapest, where the international representatives of the world music scene and anyone interested will have more than 50 concerts to choose from between 22 and 24 October.

Apart from WOMEX concerts, Müpa Budapest will also house two representative events. The opening gala will be held here, as well as the gala concert by the winner of the lifetime achievement award.  The Gypsy HeartBeats Opening Gala on 21 October is an invitation-only event, which will be broadcasted live at the external venue in the parking lot right next to Müpa Budapest. In the evening of 25 October, this year’s winner of the WOMEX lifetime achievement award, Cheikh Lô will perform in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall.