World Music Institute

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About World Music Institute

World Music Institute (WMI), a not-for-profit organization, is the nation’s leading presenter of traditional music and dance from around the world. Through its concerts WMI seeks to entertain, educate and to provide spiritual nourishment to its audiences and to provide a stage for many of the world’s greatest artists. WMI supports and encourages musicians from immigrant communities and collaborates with universities, cultural organizations, and other presenting organizations that have similar goals. Since its founding in 1985, WMI has built the most comprehensive concert series of traditional music and dance in the United States, having produced more than 1,500 concerts from more than 100 countries and ethnic minorities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, The Americas and the Middle East as well as regional music from throughout U.S.