Tallinn Music Week 2010 open for registration!

Tallinn Music Week is a showcase festival and a music industry networking event that started out in 2009, a year that was declared the Year of Innovation in Estonia. Having partnered up with the foundation Tallinn 2011 (Tallinn will be the European Culture Capital in 2011!) and the country’s very own brain child Skype, it is a new and fresh initiative with an aim of integrating the Estonian music industry effectively into the European industry circuit, thus providing a new platform for the country’s best talent to spread further from its country’s borders.

Why to go and what to see:
2009 was a fantastic year for Estonian bands and music. The witty Universal-signed singer-songwriter Kerli was nominated for the European Border Beakers Award at EuroSonic, one of her songs picked for the new Tim Burton movie; the Universal-signed Viking metal outfit Metsatöll toured 32 dates in 11 countries of Europe; the guitar-trumpet-duo with mesmerizing soundscapes, UMA got to play at the London Jazz festival, Europe’s most revered jazz event; our MTV darlings Bedwetters toured the Nordic countries, penetrating through to the hearts of some important Swedish radio stations and the Scandinavian MTV in the process.

Tallinn Music Week 2010 is excited to announce a festival line-up of 83 bands and musicians that will also include a completely new segment of music this time —brilliant contemporary classical music, presented by the Estonian Composers Union.

Tallin Metal Week - our hard rock and metal enthusiasts of Nailboard Records and Hard Rock Laager have this time taken an impressive initiative in expanding their showcase into a full three-day festival of its own right — the Tallinn Metal Week, that will take place at the club Tapper.

Jazzkaar Festival and the Estonian Jazz Union will share the grand No99 Theatre with Viljandi Traditional Music Centre to stage the promising jazz talent and some exhilarating world music outfits.

Beside the fantastic Estonian talent, there are also bands from neighbouring countries present at this year’s event: Finland, Latvia and Lithuania are all represented, thus pointing out Tallinn’s significance as the inevitable geographical link between the Nordic countries, the rest of the Baltics and Eastern Europe.

More information about event:  www.tallinnmusicweek.ee