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The TMW 2025 music festival will take place across various venues of Tallinn’s burgeoning Telliskivi Creative City, Noblessner and Kopli districts from April 3rd to 5th. The programme focuses on the diversity of Estonian musical culture and international collaborations. Close to 30 showcase nights present music ranging from Finno-Ugric heritage to global digipop, from European jazz, contemporary classical and choral music to current waves from the African diaspora, and from Nordic, Baltic and Balkan rock to East Asian fusion styles.

The showcase nights are curated by long-standing TMW partners as well as several new agents. Curatorial newcomers include ÅÄÖ…Sounds Swedish new talent platform as well as Playground Music presenting a joint night with local up-and-coming record label Kurvad Uudised; Paavli Culture Factory’s experimental electronic music series Dreamscape; Roots Session with music inspired by American legacy genres, and Backstage Records. The Sounds of the Cities showcase, curated by Tallinn, UNESCO City of Music, brings together notable acts from music cities around the world.

Among the international curators returning to TMW for the second time are Europe’s leading classical and contemporary music showcase Classical:NEXT, the Dutch agency Yugofuturism, dedicated to musical dissidents from Central and Eastern Europe, and European Capital of Culture Oulu2026 from Finland, this time in partnership with the Estonian club culture festival unda. Finnish curators will also be present with their leading dark music festival Blowup. For the 11th year, the Made in Canada night will bring a line-up of exciting new artists from the land of the Maple Leaf to Tallinn.

The Estonian Choral Association presents a selection of works by Estonian, Norwegian, Italian and American composers from the 20th and 21st centuries; regional grassroots network Cindy & Kate line up their favourite acts from across the Baltics; and JV-Promotion takes the audience on a musical flight to Taiwan.

There will be showcase nights curated by leading Estonian events such as the Viljandi Folk Music Festival and the cross-genre festivals Võnge and Station Narva, as well as music organisations ranging from the Estonian Jazz Union to the Finno-Ugrian Society and the Heavy Music Association. The Folktronica Stage, curated by the OOPUS ensemble is back for another year as well as the ever-popular Funk Embassy Night. Africa NOW! night continues its mission to highlight talent from the African diaspora, Laine Live and Soda Pop’s future music will blast at the Uus Laine club, and Paavli Culture Factory will add dedicated live and club nights to its busy schedule for TMW.

Musicians from 106 countries, from Europe to North and South America, and from Central and Southeast Asia to the Middle East, Africa and Oceania, applied for the upcoming TMW festival. The lineup of performers will be announced in January 2025.

Until midnight on Friday, December 13th, showcase nights’ tickets are available at a 50% discount via Piletilevi.

The next edition of TMW takes place from April 3rd to 6th, 2025. TMW 2025 music festival passes and PRO passes that provide access to the music festival and conference are on sale via TMW webshop.

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TMW 2025 showcase nights’ outline

 

Thursday, April 3rd

Backstage Records Night 

Made In Canada 

Taiwan Music Flight

Laine Live 

Võnge Festival Stage

Metal Stage 

 

Friday, April 4th
 

Funk Embassy 

Jazz Stage

Fenno-Ugria Night 

Sounds of the Cities

ÅÄÖ…Sounds Swedish 

Blowup  

Paavli.CLUB 

Classical:NEXT 

OOPUS presents: Folktronica 

Cindy & Kate 

 

Saturday, April 5th
 

Station Narva 

Africa NOW! 

Vikendica 

Viljandi Folk Music Festival 

Soda Pop 

Paavli.LIVE 

Dreamscape 

Oulu2026 x unda 

Choral Association presents: disPLAYS 

kurvad uudised records x Playground Music 

Roots Session

More info 

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As the leading showcase of “tomorrow’s music, arts and ideas” in the Baltic-Nordic region, 

TMW 2025 takes place from 3rd to 6th April in the Estonian capital Tallinn. The music festival takes place across various venues from  3rd to 5th April.

TMW 2025 tickets are on sale via TMW webshop. Festival Pass that grants access to all the music festival nights is currently available for 69 euros (end price 85 euros). PRO Pass for 195 euros (end price 250 euros) provides access to the TMW conference and DigiPRO platform as well as priority access to the music festival.

TMW has been presenting distinctive talent from both its homeland and across Europe since 2009. The festival is valued internationally for its diverse programme, vast variety of genres and high artistic level, as well as the strong representation of the international music industry and media. The festival is attended by an audience of about 18,000 people and over 1,300 industry players each year and is considered to be among the top 3 most important industry events in Europe.

TMW is organised by Muusikanädal NGO in collaboration with Shiftworks, diverse partners and co-curators. TMW’s strategic partner in the field of music is the national music export office Music Estonia.

TMW is a co-founder of The Federation of International Music Conferences (FoMC), and a member of the European talent exchange programme European Talent Exchange, the international gender equality network Keychange and the European showcase platform for global music UPBEAT.