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On 29 September, the music and city festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW) opens. The City of Tallinn and the urban art festival PÖÖRA! have joined forces in the effort to support residents' mental and physical health through unique urban space experiences and walking paths filled with exciting content that invite you to notice the good and bad choices around you and stand for environmentally friendly solutions. 

As part of the jubilee programme to celebrate the centenary of the Union of Estonian Architects as well as the Tallinn urban space, PÖÖRA! brings urban installations on the topic of the green turn, three of which will also be City Stage concert sites. This cooperation will be opened by a grand concert on Freedom Square (Vabaduse Väljak), followed by a mayoral candidate debate at the adjacent Philly Joe's Jazz Club. 

**PROGRAMME**

17.30 TMW 2021 city festival and PÖÖRA! installation "A Pause For Thought" opening. 
Welcoming speeches: 
Andro Mänd, president of the Union of Estonian Architects
Helen Sildna, head of TMW 

**Concert**
Mixed choir of the Estonian Public Broadcasting system ERR, conductor Hirvo Surva
Mixed choir of the Estonia Association, conductor Heli Jürgenson 
Tallinn Chamber Choir, conductor Heli Jürgenson 

**18:00 – 19:30 Philly** **Joe’s Tallinn** (Freedom Square/Vabaduse väljak 10)
**TMW Talks: Tallinn in Europe**(in Estonian)

Tallinn is as much in Europe as Paris or Berlin. The electoral list of Tallinn, entrepreneurs and representatives of the cultural field discuss how to develop Tallinn using European opportunities. Tallinn will be the European Green Capital in 2023. Is this to be seen as an advance on work yet to be done or as a reward for the steps that have already been taken? What does it mean to have a green turn in a capital city? How should the urban landscape be developed? What are the ways which can enable us to tap into the resources of the EU market? Does Tallinn need foreign labour? What kind of projects should Tallinn invest EU funds in? How to empower creative industries and cultural life? Which steps are needed to ease access to healthcare and raise its quality? The discussion will take place in cooperation with the European Commission Representation in Estonia and can also be followed live (in Estonian) at their [website](https://ec.europa.eu/estonia/events/20210929_Tallinn_Euroopas_et).

**Panellists**:

**Mait** **Palts**, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 
**Triin** **Roos**, member of the Estonian National Youth Council 
**Sille** **Pihlak**, architect, lecturer and researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts 
**Mihhail** **Kõlvart**, Center Party 
**Züleyxa** **Izmailova**, Estonian Green Party 
**Raimond** **Kaljulaid**, Social Democrats 
**Keit** **Pentus**-**Rosimannus**, Reform Party 
**Marek** **Reinaas**, Eesti200 
**Urmas** **Reinsalu**, Isamaa

Moderator: **Johannes** **Tralla**, ETV

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Vabaduse Square

TMW 2021 City festival opening ceremony: opening of the PÖÖRA! installation, concert and mayoral debate 

Tallinn is as much in Europe as Paris or Berlin. The electoral list of Tallinn, entrepreneurs and representatives of the cultural field discuss how to develop Tallinn using European opportunities. Tallinn will be the European Green Capital in 2023. Is this to be seen as an advance on work yet to be done or as a reward for the steps that have already been taken? What does it mean to have a green turn in a capital city? How should the urban landscape be developed? What are the ways which can enable us to tap into the resources of the EU market? Does Tallinn need foreign labour? What kind of projects should Tallinn invest EU funds in? How to empower creative industries and cultural life? Which steps are needed to ease access to healthcare and raise its quality? The discussion will take place in cooperation with the European Commission Representation in Estonia and can also be followed live (in Estonian) at their website.

**Panellists**:

**Mait** **Palts**, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
**Triin** **Roos**, member of the Estonian National Youth Council 
**Sille** **Pihlak**, architect, lecturer and researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts
**Mihhail** **Kõlvart**, Center Party
**Züleyxa** **Izmailova**, Estonian Green Party
**Raimond** **Kaljulaid**, Social Democrats
**Keit** **Pentus**-**Rosimannus**, Reform Party
**Marek** **Reinaas**, Eesti200
**Urmas** **Reinsalu**, Isamaa

Moderator: **Johannes** **Tralla**, ETV

Philly Joe's Jazz Club 

TMW Talks: Tallinn in Europe (in Estonian)

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EKKM

Opening of the urban art festival PÖÖRA! and the sculpture garden of the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)

𝗧𝗠𝗪 𝘅 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘂 𝗞𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗗𝗝𝘀!

Tallinn Music Week and Viru Keskus are putting on a big street party on Thursday, 30 September at 16.00!
The front of Nordic Hotel Forum will be filled with beats by the funkiest and grooviest DJs of the town straight from the Funk Embassy: 𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗸 & 𝗗𝗝 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱!

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Nordic Hotel Forum

Viru Center Stage by Nordic Hotel Forum 

The Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC) hosts the Tallinn Thursday gallery night with extended opening hours. The participating galleries are Vaal Gallery, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Okapi Gallery, Draakoni Gallery, Hobusepea Gallery, Haus Gallery, Gallery Positiiv, EAA Gallery, Kai Art Center and Temnikova & Kasela Gallery. The programme includes exhibitions introducing new works by both Estonian and foreign artists, as well as meetups with the gallerists and artists. 

A dedicated bus makes moving from gallery to gallery easier during the gallery evening. Entry to the bus at every stop is based on a first-come-first-served policy.

The exhibitions are open until the end of the festival.

Tallinn Thursday schedule
16:00 Vaal Gallery (Tartu mnt 82, rear entrance of the Fahle building)
International group exhibition “Tierras malas”. Introduction by curator Annika Toots

16:45 Tallinn Art Hall Gallery (Vabaduse väljak 6)
“Wearing a Hundred Shirts” curated by Sten Ojavee and Siim Preiman. Introduction by curator Sten Ojavee

17:15 Okapi Gallery (Niguliste 2)
Erik Alalooga “Random Light Orchestra”. Performance on sound machines by the author

17:40 Draakon Gallery (Pikk 18)
Sigrid Viir  “​False Vacationers Workcation Travels”. Introduction by gallerist Anna Mari Liivrand

18:00 Hobusepea Gallery (Hobusepea 2)
Katrin Koskaru “Engine Noise from the Sun”. Introduction by gallerist Anna Mari Liivrand

18:30 Haus Gallery (Uus 17)
Haus Gallery 2021: preparing for the autumn auction. Gallery owner and curator Piia Ausman talks about organising auctions and introduces the works

19:15 Gallery Positiiv (Roo 21a)
Antty Sinitsyn “Ambient Portraits”. Introduction by artist Antti Sinitsyn and gallerist Kristel Schwede.

19:45 EAA Gallery (Põhja puiestee 7)
Sten Eltermaa in collaboration with Maria Lee Liivak and Maria Muuk “Glass Struggle”. Introduction by gallerist Pire Sova

20:15 Kai Art Center (Peetri 12)
Gabriele Beveridge and Marge Monko “Great Pretender”. Introduction by Kai Art Center’s programme coordinator Triin Metsla

20:30 Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Peetri 12)
Opening of a retrospective exhibition of the Estonian graphic art legend Tõnis Vint’s drawings from the 70s  


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Art: Tallinn Thursday Gallery Night

The TMW Fenno-Ugria Night is a unique opportunity to hear the folk music heritage of the Finno-Ugric countries, including Estonia, and through the performances of masterful musicians also present it to guests from abroad as well as the local public. 

The Fenno-Ugria night will feature emotional East-Mari folk songs, ancient Sami yoiks, original work inspired by Estonian runosongs, as well as Finnish prog-folk. However, well-known and loved songs from the rich Hungarian heritage will this time take on a jazz key. The showcase features Trepp (EE), Ulla Pirttijärvi & Ulda (FI), Nagy Bögö (EE), Kodaly Spicy Jazz (HU), and Vimma (FI). 

The night also represents a bridge between TMW and the Finno-Ugrian Days, an event that introduces Finno-Ugric peoples, set to take place in October. The festival is included among the events of the CIOFF network, which is accredited to the UNESCO ICH Committee.  



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Club of Different Rooms

Finland

Ulla Pirttijärvi & Ulda

Estonia

Trepp&Friends 

Trepp & Friends

Hungary

Kodály Spicy Jazz

Nagy Bögö

Vimma

TMW 2021: Fenno-Ugria Night

Estonia’s only travelling summer festival Võnge takes place in different new beautiful, wild and natural surroundings each year. This year, for the first time in history, Võnge will also host a showcase at Tallinn Music Week. ELLIP, Bluephox (Rootsi), YE, Brothers Moving (Taani), KiROT and I Wear* Experiment will take the stage and shine in the Black Hall of F-Hoone on Thursday, September 30. Live shows on the Võnge Festival Stage begin at 19.00.


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F-Hoone

ELLIP

Ellip

Sweden

Bluephox

УЕ

Denmark

Brothers Moving

KiROT

Kirot

I Wear* Experiment

I Wear Experiment

Raul Ojamaa 

TMW 2021: Võnge Festival Stage 

What’s Next In Music? is an international showcase festival and conference held every September in Vilnius, organised by the Lithuanian music business association. Their showcase at TMW 2021 will present some of the audience favourites from What’s Next in Music? from recent years – Lithuanians Abudu, Flash Voyage, Garbanotas and Monikaze along with the Latvian gem Evija Vēbere. The line-up will be completed by the Estonian act Centre El Muusa. 

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Fotografiska

Lithuania

Abudu

Latvia

Waterflower

Centre El Muusa

Flash Voyage

Garbanotas

The Boondocks

Monikaze

TMW 2021: What’s Next In Music? 

On the first night of TMW at the brand spanking new TMW venue D3, Estonian Funk Embassy will present ambassadors of afro beats from home and away – from our southern neighbours Latvia the soul/funk gang The Coco’nuts, from just a touch further south Afrodelic, one of the best known cultural figures on the Lithuanian scene, and then even further south, all the way from Italy Savana Funk. In addition, the showcase nights features our brightest divas ANETT and Rita Ray. NB! This will be the first ever event at D3, don’t miss it! 


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ANETT

The Coco'nuts

Afrodelic

Rita Ray

Neon Fir

Lexsoul Dancemachine

TMW 2021: Funk Embassy Stage

In cooperation with Eesti Kontsert the opening night concert will feature the world premiere of composer Liisa Hõbepappel’s new work "You Are a Continent, My Dear". The piece will be performed by Trio ‘95, the recently crowned winner of the international piano chamber music competition “Tallinn 2021”. The trio will also perform “The Dream Servants” by Tõnu Kõrvits. 

The celebration also features the first ever live performance of the Estonian-US-Danish collaboration “Themes For Great Cities: Tallinn”, performed by Jonas Kaarnamets, Erki Pärnoja, Jonas Bjerre of Mew fame, and the US musicologist Alex Maiolo.

The evening will conclude with the presentation of Sander Mölder’s new album TIKS086. Taking the stage with Mölder are the guitarist Frederik Küüts and bassist Siim Avango, as well as the singers Daniel Levi, Stefan, Marie Vaigla, Yasmyn and Jon Hazel from Estonia, Aron Blom and EZEE from Sweden, and Emily Roberts from Germany.
The festival will be opened by President Kersti Kaljulaid, CEO of Telia Estonia Robert Pajos, and TMW founder and Head of Strategy Helen Sildna


The TMW opening night is also accessible with the Supporter Pass and PRO Pass, available at the TMW web shop shop.tmw.ee. The Festival Pass does not provide access to the first half of the opening night. Separate tickets are available for Sander Mölder’s album presentation in the Cauldron Hall, and all TMW passes provide access to the concert: Festival Pass, Supporter Pass, and PRO Pass. 


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Creative Hub

Trio '95

Tõnu Kõrvits

Tõnu Kõrvits “The Dream Servants”, performed by Trio '95

Liisa Hõbepappel

Liisa Hõbepappel’s “You Are a Continent, My Dear", performed by Trio ’95

Themes For Great Cities: Tallinn

Sander Mölder: TIKS086

TMW 2021: Opening Night

The Void Valley pushes the boundaries on the heavier side of sounds and combines underground aesthetic with high-calibre production - all in the one-and-only party central Sveta Baar. Void Valley presents  scene-defining post-punk, metal and stoner stalwarts alongside up-and-coming genre-benders from the Baltics and Nordics.

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Sveta Bar

OGHRE

Oghre

ROXY JULES

Roxy Jules

dreamkrusher!

Dreamkrusher!

Akli 

AKLI

Crystal Cloisters

TMW 2021: Void Valley  

Tallinn has just been chosen to be the European Capital of Culture in 2023. What is that going to be like and where do we go from there? Are we going to see a green mindset take root in this city that is increasingly filling with cars and cannot manage to sort its waste? The candidature process leads and specialists in environmental issues discuss the matter. 


Panelists: 
Mihkel Kaevats, Tallinna Rohepöörde kompetentsikeskus
Marek Rannala, Liikuvusagentuur
Teele Pehk, Rohetiiger

Moderator: 
Ave Habakuk, Elav Tänav



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Terminal Records&Bar

Tallinn, Euroopan Green Capital 2023 (in Estonian) 

Music journalism is a two-way street with talent in one lane and critics in another. When it’s business as usual, traffic flows seamlessly. Every once in a while there’s a crash between the two and people can get hurt. Although critics are supposed to be critical, the cultural commentary they produce can seem belittling or biased. This can put them in the hot seat and in danger of cancellation. In a candid discussion, a panel of tastemakers reveal the failures of music criticism and take a closer look at the fluctuating diversity trends driving the conversation about music. To be expected: bad practices shared, skeletons emerging from closets and purgatory of self-deprecation. The sweet life of tastemakers will never look the same.

Panellists:
Tõnis Kahu, music critic and lecturer
Irina Shtreys, music journalist
Ramūnas Zilnys, music journalist, head of LTR OPUS
Bert Järvet, host at Raadio 2

Moderator: Daniel Dylan Wray, music journalist

TMW Talks: Roasting tastemakers (in English) 

Damn.Loud Agency is taking over Von Krahl for another legendary TMW metal night! Gorgeous Von Krahl, top tier production, two stages, sold out house and the best of the underground hard hitters from home and abroad!

The lineup features Kannabinõid and JUUR, both winners of the Estonian metal album of the year award; Horror Dance Squad, freshly added to the Impericon Festival lineup; the Finnish post-metal group Besra, with members from Callisto fame; the Danish group LIVLØS, freshly signed to Napalm Records, and their label-mates Dwaal from Norway; MÖRT, with their critically acclaimed new album; Estonian metal newcomers ÆØNS; power violence veterans Sociasylum; the always incredibly loud and powerful VVZ from Latvia. The cherry on top is the metal machine Goresoerd and the post-black group Show Me A Dinosaur from Russia. 

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Von Krahl

ÆØNS

MÖRT

V V Z

Norway

Dwaal

LIVLØS

JUUR

Goresoerd

Besra

Sociasylum

Horror Dance Squad

Kannabinõid

TMW 2021: Metal Stage 

The second of two TMW concerts held at KinoMaja features Estonian artists exploring different shades and areas of classical rock. The lineup consists of the raw psychedelia of artist-and-one-man-band Robin Nõgisto, Alabama Watchdog, who represented the power of rock music at Eesti Laul, the folk and country vibes of Tarvo Valm Band, the fierce power of Ziggy Wild and a mix of the blues rock and psychedelia of the ‘60s and ‘70s courtesy of Bourbon Sugar. The showcase evening will wrap up with Savana Funk’s repertoire is an original mixture of African music, funk, blues, psychedelic rock and jazz.


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KinoMaja

Robin Nõgisto

Bourbon Sugar

Alabama Watchdog

Ziggy Wild

Tarvo Valm Band

Italy

Savana Funk 

TMW 2021: KinoMaja Hard Night  

This year’s TMW Jazz Stage is a multifaceted event held at Fotografiska. The music of Trio Maag and Isabel Bermejo bears strong traces of Latin American music, particularly that of Argentina, while the Tobias Tammearu Trio strives towards replacing the stereotypical division of roles with absolute equality between the saxophone, bass and drums. The award-winning vocal sextet Estonian Voices focuses on a rich assortment of voices and timbres, offering an eclectic live experience that is simultaneously playful and technically impeccable. The Jazz Stage also presents Susanna Aleksandra’s vocal talents and The Free Musketeers, pushing the boundaries between music, literature and theatre, intertwining them into jazz-infused performance art.  



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Trio Maag & Isabel Bermejo 

Tobias Tammearu Trio

Estonian Voices

The Free Musketeers

Susanna Aleksandra

TMW 2021: Jazz Stage  

Next stop: Tallinn! The Station Narva showcase will bring the hard-hitting beats of its mother festival in the easternmost Estonian post-industrial city Narva to the Tallinn Creative Hub. The historical boiler room will greet the bravest minds and sounds from East, West and North. Roar in unison with the glorious fuzz of Brooklyn’s noiseniks A Place To Bury Strangers, chant the dark parodies of campaign slogans by Icelandic techno-punks Hatari, hum the righteous rhymes of the Palestinian Bashar Murad, surrender to the Tatar-Russian AIGEL’s fearless flow, nod to the coldwave pulse of aptly-named Rainday Station and get lost in Polyšywa’s ambient atmospherics.

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Rainday Station

Palestine, State of

Bashar Murad

Iceland

Hatari

Hatari feat. Bashar Murad

United States of America

A Place To Bury Strangers

Pološywa

Russia

AIGEL

TMW 2021: Station Narva Stage  

Blow Up is Finland’s leading independent underground festival that showcases international and Finnish artists with a focus on psychedelic and avant-garde music, post-punk & doom metal. 

The stage showcases established musical artists such as experimental electronic artist and metal band leader Timo Kaukolampi (K-X-P & OP:L Bastards). Blow Up is also happy to introduce new and emerging artists such as the experimental post-punk band Viimeiset, dystopian industrial punk act Deathsomnia, and the sludge/stoner band Demonic Death Judge. The evening will be completed by the dark coldwave of Suzi Sabotage and the psychedelic rock of Boar, so keep your finger on the pulse of the underground and do not miss out.


Boar

TMW 2021: Blow Up Festival Stage 

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