Stage and crew apparel
T-shirts, polos and light layers sized for musicians, backline techs and tour crew across the historic-centre stages, in brand colours that read at distance in backline light at sunset.
Scheduled · late May 2026 · historic centre of Cáceres, Spain
For Mexican producers, independent labels, artists, tourism operators, media and hospitality teams bringing showcases, tours or coverage to the WOMAD festival in Cáceres — stage apparel, fast-handout giveaways, qualified-lead gifts for European programmers and specialist press, and named staff kits, priced in MXN, invoiced with CFDI 4.0 and delivered to the historic centre of Cáceres on your showcase calendar.
WOMAD is the world-music festival network founded by Peter Gabriel in the early 1980s and the Cáceres edition is the longest-running in Spain, with decades of programming that blends African, Latin, European and Asian roots in an open-air, largely free-to-the-public format. For Mexican producers, labels and artists bringing showcases to the festival — and for tourism operators and media riding alongside the tour — the operational issue is not just printing the artwork: it is coordinating quantities by showcase, pre-labelling by crew member, avoiding queues at the walled old town access points, and keeping margin for emergency restock across the festival days without boxes ending up in a freight depot forty kilometres from the Plaza Mayor.
Mexican teams tend to split the showcase programme across four allocations that are best treated as separate lots: stage apparel sized for the musicians, backline techs and tour crew that rotate across the different days and stages; fast-handout giveaways tuned for the historic centre foot traffic; qualified-lead gifts for European programmers, labels and specialist press reserved for the showcase, catalogue-signing and business-meeting conversations that produce a real next step; and a named staff kit for production coordinators, institutional relations and label representatives that move between the Plaza Mayor, the Gran Teatro and the courtyards of the walled old town. Treating each of those as a separate lot — with separate artwork queues, separate packaging and separate shipping — is what separates a showcase that runs clean from one that is looking for missing T-shirts in the backline at eleven at night.
For Mexican producers shipping kit from CDMX, Guadalajara or an EU routing hub, the freight question decides everything. A consolidated shipment with the wider European tour, usually via a freight forwarder routing through Madrid or Lisbon, is the cheapest option but ties your delivery window to the truck schedule. Most Mexican productions we work with end up splitting: apparel and core giveaways consolidated, the showcase and staff boxes flown under the company's own purchase order so a named concierge at a corporate hotel near the Plaza Mayor or at the parador turístico inside the walled city can sign for them. That second leg is where the CFDI 4.0 plus complemento de pagos come into play; we generate both on the Mexican leg so your customs broker or European forwarder has clean paperwork whether the shipment exits through AICM, goes via sea consolidation from Veracruz, or arrives at an EU gateway.
Copyright and brand compliance on WOMAD programming is strict and the visible brand has to reflect it. The artwork that reaches the historic centre stages must respect the festival guidelines and the collective management societies in both Mexico and Spain, avoid wording that could compromise the artist or label's representation under SGAE, PCH or equivalent bodies, and leave space for the identifiers that the WOMAD Foundation requires in its exhibitor manual. We will work your artwork against the regulatory guidelines of both the artist's home jurisdiction and the European market, not just the festival compliance guide. That pre-clearance is what keeps your legal team comfortable when the showcase goes up the day before the festival opens.
For Mexican producers running a wider European tour alongside (Valladolid, Madrid, Lisbon), we can coordinate the European leg with a partner in Seville or Madrid while keeping the master shipment and the master CFDI 4.0 in Mexico. That dual production is what has allowed Mexican independent labels to use the Cáceres showcase as a launchpad for longer Iberian tours, reserving the heavy manufacturing for the Mexican hub with its scale economy and clean fiscal traceability. The European VAT line is supported by the Spanish partner and your vendor list stays single-source in Mexico.
T-shirts, polos and light layers sized for musicians, backline techs and tour crew across the historic-centre stages, in brand colours that read at distance in backline light at sunset.
Lanyards, tote bags, pens and bottles sized for fast booth and stage hand-out across the WOMAD festival days.
Limited editions, promo vinyl and desk accessories reserved for European programmer, label and specialist press conversations, packed in the languages your meetings actually run.
Premium notebooks, drinkware and compact gift boxes assembled by recipient tier and delivered by name to production coordinators, institutional relations staff and label representatives.
Before kicking off production, lock in artwork, Pantone references, quantities, packaging and the named on-site recipient — whether at the Plaza Mayor, a central Cáceres hotel or your regional operations base. Access rules to the historic centre, backline load-in windows and meeting points must be checked against the current festival manual and the city's loading-and-unloading rules; the walled old town is not an open courier address. For producers routing kit from Mexico via an EU hub, add a transit buffer for export and intra-EU paperwork, and a hotel concierge buffer usually makes sense alongside direct backline drop-off for the overflow.
Eight to ten weeks is the safe window when production runs in Mexico and the cross-border freight leg lands in Extremadura. Tighter programmes are only possible after written confirmation of stock, marking methods and access to the walled old town of Cáceres.
Only when the WOMAD Foundation or that stage's production team has confirmed the load-in slot, backline access and named consignee. Many Mexican producers split the shipment between the backline and a named concierge at their Cáceres hotel who can sign for the showcase boxes and the overflow.
Yes. We coordinate Mexico-produced apparel with finishing and fulfilment through a Seville or Madrid hub, while the master purchase order and the master CFDI 4.0 stay in Mexico. The European VAT line is supported by the Spanish partner and your vendor list stays single-source.
No. Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier that helps Mexican producers, artists and teams prepare their own merch for the festival. We do not organise, sponsor or represent the WOMAD Foundation or the city of Cáceres.
Corp-Merch is an independent external supplier for participating Mexican producers, artists and teams. This page helps Mexican teams prepare their own merch for the event; it does not represent the organiser, the festival or any sponsor.