Nordic countries and Baltic States to work together to boost music exports

Music experts from the Nordic countries and Baltic States are looking to enliven the creative industry in the region this spring. As part of this year's very successful Tallinn Music Week, music agency managers discussed how they could take their cooperation to the level of the Northern Dimension Partnership so as to better promote and make a greater profit from the region's music.

Tallinn Music Week 2010, which drew musicians, exporters and music lovers to the Estonian capital for the second time, is designed to showcase the work of artists from Estonia (as well as the other Baltic States), to put them in the international spotlight and to promote the exporting of music in general.

Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves thinks so highly of the festival – which has rapidly earned great international acclaim – that he found time in his busy schedule to open this year's event with a welcoming video. 18 concerts, 100 artists, 6000 fans, more than 100 foreign guests from 17 countries and 30,000 website hits from 74 countries speak for themselves.