From 28th of March to 3rd of April Estonian capital Tallinn will host 8th annual music conference/showcase festival “Tallinn Music Week”. Among more than 230 artists to perform in Tallinn there will be 7 Latvian acts as well as a showcase show presented by record company “I Love You Records” and “Positivus Festival”.
Latvia will be represented in Tallinn this year by seven acts, more than 40 delegates and a showcase show presented by “I Love You Records” and “Positivus Festival”. This showcase on Saturday in “Kino Sõprus” is already starting to become a tradition of “Tallinn Music Week” and this year among other performers from USA, Germany, Austria, Poland, Lithuania and Estonia it will also host Latvian singer-songwriter Alise Joste, whose album “Hardships Are Ships” won “Austras balva” in 2015, the Latvian equivalent of British “Mercury Prize”.
Other Latvian acts scheduled to perform in “Tallinn Music Week” are hip-hop legend Ozols, “Instrumenti” frontman Jānis Šipkēvics with his new project “Shipsea”, indie-pop sensations “Rīgas Modes”, talented beat maker and producer NiklāvZ, colorful indie band “Triana Park” and Latvian masters of funk “Very Cool People”.
