Womex 2013 highlights: In pictures
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An audience view of the opening concert 'Land of Song' which kick-started this year's WOMEX 2013 in Cardiff. WOMEX which closed on Sunday was the largest international cultural event Wales has ever hosted.
Cerys Matthews and her Land of Song Band are joined on stage by Georgia Ruth (left) during the WOMEX opening concert. During the week over 30 top Welsh musicians were presented to the world.
Fanfarai are a North African brass band made up of 11 musicians playing traditional percussion, Arabo-Berber, Afro-cuban, Latin and Jazz sounds.
Georgia Ruth from Wales played a haunting set on the Horizons Stage which this year featured the best world music artists from the UK and Ireland.
Gipsy Burek Orkestar blended Balkan brass band with the fiery sounds of Breton folk music for an east-west European dance-fest.
Amazing things happen when the 10-member Les Tambours de Brazza take to the stage. The percussion band from the Republic of Congo enthralled crowds with their large Ngoma drums on Friday night.
This year saw the second WOMEX DJ Summit with a specific showcase and conference programme dedicated to global club music but there was still time for dancing at the Glee Club.
Mitu perform at Saturday's DJ Club Night. Mitu are Julian Salazar, guitarist from Bogota's psychedelic cumbia band Bomba Estereo, and Franklin Tejedor, a master percussionist of Palenque's great rhythmic traditions.
Fanfara Tirana meets Transglobal Underground. Fanfara Tirana invented an Albanian brass-band tradition and then formed a creative collaboration with London-based dance fusioneers, Transglobal Underground.
Ebo Taylor, one of Ghana's most prolific musicians was born in 1936. With his compositions, arrangements and outstanding guitar style, Taylor has shaped Ghanaian music.
Jambinai emerged from the indie scene of Seoul's hip quarter of Hongdae in 2011 to win a prize at the EBS Hello Rookie competition. Two years later their album Differance was named Best Jazz and Crossover Album at the Korean Music Awards.
Nomfusi Gotyana belting out songs on Saturday night. Likened by critics to a young Miriam Makeba with a twist of Tina Turner, Nomfusi have risen from the squalor of South African squatter camps to the world stage.