"Ambassador of World Music" -- PollStar Magazine

Mehmet Dede is an internationally recognized, award-winning music curator, festival producer and tour promoter with 20 years of experience in the culture space. Since 2005, he has produced and booked hundreds of concerts nationwide, including collaborations with Lincoln Center, Central Park SummerStage in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He currently serves as Director of Programming at Drom, a 300-person capacity club in Manhattan. Since 2008, "New York’s premiere venue for world music" (Wall St. Journal) has hosted an eclectic array of artists from Robert Glasper, Gregory Porter and Hilary Hahn to Ibrahim Maalouf. Dede is also the curator of the NY Gypsy Festival, now in its 16th season. Previously, Dede worked at concert promoter Giant Step and Universal Music Group. Dede is the recipient of the 2021 globalFEST Impact Award and was profiled in The Wall Street Journal, PBS, PollStar and Forbes Magazine. Dede holds an M.A. in Music Business from New York University.