Riga Music Week 2026

Riga Music Week 2026
City Festival

 

Riga Music Week returns to Tallinas Street Quarter on 4–6 November for its second edition, combining a city festival with an international music industry conference. Across two days, more than 50 bands and artists will perform on seven stages, while music professionals from across Europe gather in Riga.

 

More than 50 bands and artists have been selected for the festival programme from 1,126 applications received from 89 countries this year. The seven stages will be programmed by Latvian music industry organisations and curators, including Summer Sound festival, record label I Love You, Baltic media platform Bobe, international concert platform Sofar Sounds, music management agency Still Figure and music company Every Little Thing. Open to the wider public, the city festival will offer a standalone live music programme across two evenings at Tallinas Street Quarter. On 6 November, the programme will continue at locations across Riga with satellite events made together with festival partners and accessible with a Riga Music Week ticket.

 

Alongside the city festival, Riga Music Week will host an international music industry conference exploring some of the questions currently changing how we discover and listen to music. Do Spotify, TikTok and other platform algorithms help new music reach audiences, or are they increasingly determining what gets noticed in the first place? European booking agents and festival representatives will discuss how they discover new artists and what it takes for a local act to make it onto an international stage. A dedicated discussion will also examine why the Baltics continue to produce talented artists while still lacking strong companies capable of developing their careers beyond domestic markets in the long term.

 

Confirmed speakers include SubmitHub Partner Dylan Heneck, ESNS Managing Director Anna van Nunen, First Music Contact CEO Angela Dorgan and Liveurope General Coordinator Fernando Bittencourt Hersan. The conference will also feature a music technology exhibition, where Latvian companies will present their solutions.

 

The Delegate PRO pass provides access to both the conference and the city festival, while a separate Festival pass is available for the live music programme only. Both ticket types also provide access to the Riga Music Week satellite events on 6 November. Tickets are available online and at Biļešu Serviss box offices.