Tallinn Music Week

Tallinn Music Week (TMW) is a weeklong city festival, contemporary music showcase and music industry conference, held every spring in Tallinn, Estonia. It is the meeting point for Eastern, Western and Central European music and creative communities, attended by around 35,000 people and 1,000 music industry executives yearly. It has been acknowledged as an attractive tourism destination by The Guardian. and New York Times

TMW was first held from 26 to 29 March in 2009 as a showcase festival and conference for international music-industry professionals and emerging regional acts. Organized by Musiccase company, its initial aim was to present current Estonian music to regional public and international industry and to help local music entrepreneurs expand their activities to foreign markets.

During the last few years the festival has broadened its concept further into a multi cultural and thought-provoking event. Besides showcasing around 250 musical acts from all over the world, TMW also presents various art forms and dissects large-scale global issues within its Talks programme and Creativity For Change Forum.

In addition to the music festival line-up TMW offers a series of free City Stage concerts, a selection of eateries within TMW Tastes, TMW Arts programme, curated by the Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre, Tallinn Craft Beer Weekend presenting microbreweries, Design Market showcasing Baltic and Scandinavian brands and designs, and TMW Talks series with topics from music to science and societal issues. In 2016 TMW also moved outdoors with its City Space activities in cooperation with the interior designers of Estonian Arts Academy, and presented five music films at Sõprus Cinema.

Among the Estonian acts who have performed at the festival and have won TMW's annual artist award (Skype Award 2009-2014, Wire Prize 2015, Telliskivi Creative City Award 2016), are Popidiot (2009), Iiris (2010), Ewert and The Two Dragons (2011), Talbot (2012), Elephants From Neptune (2013), Odd Hugo (2014), Maarja Nuut (2015), and I Wear* Experiment (2016).

Among the international acts who have performed at the festival are Vashti Bunyan (UK), Public Service Broadcasting (UK), All We Are (UK), Motorama (RU), Kate Boy (SWE) Mirel Wagner (FI), Rubik (FI), The Membranes (UK), Glen Matlock (UK), Kristjan Järvi (US), Yukon Blonde (CA), Sturle Dagsland (NO) and Jaakko Eino Kalevi (FI).

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