page_title: Tallinn Music Week
section_title: Music festival
hierarchical_section_title: Tallinn Music Week / Festival programme / Music festival
caption_attribution_description: English: TMW konverentsi avamine 2015
context_page_description: Tallinn Music Week is an international new music showcase, city culture festival and networking event for music and creative industry professionals, held every spring in Tallinn, Estonia since 2009. Operated by Tallinn-based company Shiftworks OÜ, it showcases emerging artists from all over Europe and beyond, provides a networking platform for music and creative industry professionals, and introduces the city of Tallinn. The festival is attended by around 20,000 people and 1,000 music industry executives yearly. TMW has been acknowledged as an important industry event and attractive tourism destination by The Guardian, New York Times, Forbes, and Experty.by.
context_section_description: TMW’s music programme presents multi-genre line-up from 100 – 250 artists. The festival has been acknowledged for embracing and introducing new emerging talent from Estonia, Nordics, Russia and beyond with various genres from experimental electronica to neo-classical represented. TMW is also the partner festival of an international Keychange initiative which encourages festivals and music organisations to achieve a 50:50 gender balance by 2022.
  TMW’s line-up is selected from artist applications by a team of Estonian and international curators and presented to an audience of around 20,000 and 1,000 industry professionals.
  TMW’s strategic partner is the music industry development centre and export office Music Estonia (ME). The membership of both TMW and ME in the European talent exchange network ETEP has enabled at least two Estonian artists to perform at the acclaimed Eurosonic Noorderslag festival every year. The Songwriting Camp, launched in collaboration between TMW, ME and Estonian national Eurovision Song Contest selection Eesti Laul has fostered the collaboration of Estonian and international artists and producers.  As part of the Finnish-Estonian export project Finest Sounds (2016 - 2019), several Estonian artists like Mari Kalkun, Peedu Kass and Talbot have been showcased in Japan, and Japanese music industry delegates have taken part in TMW seminars and workshops.
  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, Telia & Telliskivi Award 2017-2018), are Popidiot (2009), Iiris (2010), Ewert and The Two Dragons (2011), Talbot (2012), Elephants From Neptune (2013), Odd Hugo (2014), Maarja Nuut (2015), I Wear* Experiment (2016), Mart Avi, Erki Pärnoja, NOËP (2017) and Mart Avi, Mari Kalkun, Holy Motors (2018).
  Among the notable international acts who have performed at the festival are Vashti Bunyan (UK), C Duncan (UK), The Membranes (UK), Glen Matlock (UK), Eric Copeland (US), Kara-Lis Coverdale (CA), Motorama (RU), Shortparis (RU), Kate NV (RU), Kate Boy (SE), Rubik (FI), Kimmo Pohjonen (FI), Jaakko Eino Kalevi (FI), Liima (DK/FI), Kristjan Järvi (US), Yukon Blonde (CA), Sturle Dagsland (NO), Hauschka (DE), Alexander Hacke (DE).
caption: TMW Conference opening at Nordic Hotel Forum
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