The international music and city festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), scheduled tober, has revealed the music programme line-up. The festival will showcase 155 artists from 19 countries.
- A Place To Bury Strangers and DVS1 from the US, the Icelandic band Hatari featuring Palestinian artist Bashir Murad, and the Finnish accordionist Antti Paalanen are among the international names appearing at this year’s event.
- The opening night of the festival will feature two premieres: a new work by Estonian composer Liisa Hõbepappel, and an international collaboration “Themes For Great Cities: Tallinn”
- TMW’s new programme partners are the Latvian festival Skaņu Mežs, the Lithuanian festival What’s Next In Music?, Blow Up from Finland and Estonia’s own Võnge, as well as the Association of Global Independent Music Agents (AGIMA).
- Single tickets for the showcase nights are now on sale at Piletilevi. Until 30 June, festival passes are on sale for a special price at Piletilevi and the TMW webshop.
From Thursday, 30 September to the picturesque Old Town.
The TMW 2021 Opening Night at the House of the Brotherhood of Blackheads on 30 September will see the world premieres of two musical compositions. Young Esto produce a piece that has its very foundation in the city where it’s being presented.
There will be more new sounds and presenters tonian future pop artist Mart Avi and the Latvian sound synthesists +K+M+B.
Station Narva night at the Tallinn Creative Hub will feature well-known international names like the celebrated US noiseniks A Place To Bury Strangers and the Icelandic techno-punks Hatari, featuring the Palestinian musician and civil rights activist Bashar Murad.
The Lithuanian talent festival and conference What’s Next In Music? is another new Baltic partner that will showcase the likes of Latvian experimentalist Evija Vebere along the Lithuanian indie darlings Garbanotas and the Estonian collective Deathsomnia.
At the new D3 venue right next to the multi-instrumentalist Raul Ojamaa.
Presented by the Estonia. The future folk unit OOPUS hosts the folktronica night, presenting both the Russian ethno-futurists Oligarkh and the Sami musician Ánnámáret.
The variations of folk and ethno from the Finnish madman-accordinist Antti Paalanen to ETK.
Local Võnge Festival will present the selection of acts from the Swedish pop diamond Bluephox tors of Soviet Estrada.
The Kivi Paber Käärid locale will feature the dark pop duo SYLK from Ireland and the Esto the electronic pop duo Púr Múdd.
The Von Krahl metal stage showcases the premier Estonian-Australian psychedelic combo dreamkrusher!. Sveta Bar’s BÄM Night will present the sounds of the queer rave and the legends of the local underground nightlife like Florian Wahl and Köster.
The Esto the audiovisual duo Vera Vice. Bass and smoke-laden beats will fill the Smoke Break night at Kauplus Aasia by the likes of the event’s main mover & shaker Modern Disease and the Norwegian DJ-producer Charlotte Bendiks.
At Noblessner’s techno club HALL, which will also serve as one of the hosts of the TMW music industry conference, restless ravers will be greeted by the club’s residents such as Artur Lääts and Kaspar Kivilo and DVS1, one of techno’s most prominent global voices from Minneapolis, US.
As a partner festival of the global initiative Keychange, TMW aims at gender-balanced representation throughout the festival’s line-up as well as in tackling the structural inequality in the music industry. Keychange talent in the TMW 2021 lineup is represented by L’impero della Luce from Italy, Charlotte Bendiks from Norway and SYLK from Ireland.
The full lineup of the TMW music festival as well as the free city stage programme will be revealed during the upcoming summer. The other festival elements are a music industry conference at Nordic Hotel Forum and HALL, public talks, an art programme, music workshops for children and special events in the district of Lasnamäe.
Single tickets for TMW 2021 showcase nights are on sale at Piletilevi.
The TMW 2021 festival passes that grant access to all showcase nights of the festival, are on sale until 30 June at a discounted price of 55 euros (from 1 July 59 euros, from 1 September 65 euros) both at Piletilevi and at shop.tmw.ee.
PRO Pass (on-site and online conference and festival pass) at 150 euros (from 1 July 175 euros, from 27 September 200 euros) and DigiPRO Pass (online participation at the conference at 50 euros (from 1 September 75 euros) are on sale at shop.tmw.ee. Additional information
Telia Estomers receive 20% off the regular price of TMW passes and tickets purchased ahead of the events.
TMW 2021 is organised by Shiftworks with various partners and co-organisers. The music programme is organised in collaboration with Damn.Loud Agency.
The festival is presented by Telia Estonia.
The festival’s strategic partner in the field of music is Music Estonia. The partners of the festival are Telliskivi Creative City and Viru Center, media partners are Postimees Grupp and Raadio 2.
The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the city of Tallinn, the Tallinn City Enterprise Department and the Cultural Endowment.
TMW’s international activities introducing Tallinn and Estourism destinations of music and culture are supported by The European Regional Development Fund.
