Events, Festivals and Exhibitions

Tallinn with its stunning medieval centre, dating from 1248, and its thriving galleries, restaurants and bars is a must for the traveller. However for one week it is transformed into one of Europe’s most eclectic contemporary music festivals – the Tallinn Music Week, part of the Baltic nation’s festival season.

The festival consists of a music festival, a Creative Impact Conference and a city festival.

The 2022 festival will include 175 artists from 28 countries. This year the festival will be split between Tallinn (4 to 6 May) and Narva (7 to 8 May). The festival will feature 28 showcase nights at 21 venues.

Over recent years the concept behind The Tallinn Music Week has broadened out. Always seen as combining Eastern, Western and Central European contemporary music, it now also encompasses art, design and ideas, with the aim of stimulating the understanding of modern culture.  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.

Tallinn Music Week

Ukrainian Ivan Dorn will open the music festival in Tallinn at Telliskivi Creative City Square on 5 May with a free concert. He will greet his compatriots who have fled the war.

The same night will see a collaboration between Swedish composer Maria W Horn and the Tallinn University of Technology Academic Female Choir.

Other artisits performing include: Alfa Collective, Brekky Boy, Tofa Jaxx, Fo Sho, Svjata Vatra Katarina Barruk,Elīna Ose, The Bubble Gum expLOTION, Caro<, Florian Wahl, Kaelan Mikla, Röövel Ööbik, 22-Pistepirkko, nublu, Karl Killing, Maarja Nuut, Tanika Charles, OOPUS, Zahir, Trad.Attack! andVera Vice.

The full programme can be found here.

The aim of the festival is not only to share and promote cultural interests but to also make the event user friendly for its many visitors. To this effect all venues used will be within a short walking distance of the main hubs: the Telliskivi Creative Hub and the Port Noblessner.

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When is the Tallinn Music Week 2022

The 14^th edition will be held from 4 to 8 May. The central hubs will be at the Telliskivi Creative City and Port Noblessner. The TMW Conference will be held at the Talinn Teachers’ House in the Old Town. It will have a day focused on Estonian music.

Tallinn Music Week 2022 Programme

Further details of performing artists can be found here.

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Tallinn Music Week Tickets

A PRO Pass (conference and music festival) costs €175 but there are other passes available, such as Festival Pass and DigiPRO Pass. You can purchase them via shop.tmw.ee.

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For more information on Tallinn Music Week

For everything else you need to know about the Week, click here. Photos provided by the Tallinn Music Festival.