WOMEX 24

23-27 October, 2024

Manchester, United Kingdom

In Place of War CEO & Artistic Director Ruth Daniel accepts the WOMEX24 Professional Excellence Award at this year’s meeting. 

WORLDWIDE MUSIC EXPO

WOMEX is the world’s most international and culturally diverse music meeting, as well as the largest conference for the global music scene. Each October, it brings together over 2,600 professionals, including 260 performing artists, from 90 countries. With its trade fair, talks, films, and showcase concerts, WOMEX has established itself as the leading networking platform for the world music industry. Its musical spectrum is unmatched, spanning from traditional sounds to the cutting-edge global underground, embracing folk, roots, jazz, diaspora cultures, and urban and electronic genres from across the globe.

The WOMEX Awards celebrate outstanding contributions to global music on an international scale. These accolades honor achievements in musical excellence, social impact, commercial success, political influence, and lifetime contributions, recognizing those who have made a lasting mark on the music world.

This year, In Place of War has won the WOMEX 24 Professional Excellence Award! For using art with music as a rich and dynamic strand - to make lasting differences to people and communities affected by war all across the world; for giving arts professionals a roadmap for collaborative community engagement; and for achieving such wide-ranging results in just twenty years, we are delighted to announce In Place of War as the recipient of the WOMEX 24 Award for Professional Excellence.