Contemporary Music of Estonia

There are many yearly music festivals in Estonia, the celebrations of traditional life that have made many later music composers that innovated the traditional music such as Olev Muska  and Coralie Joyce, Kirile Loo, Veljo Tormis and the Estonian-Australian coir Kiri-uu. There are other current Estonian musicians and they include the powerful singers like Rene Eespere, ester Magi, arvo Part, Urmas Sisask, Veljo Tormis and Erkki-Sven Tuur.

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The indie folk rock band Ewert and the two dragons are also known as the best Estonian bands having been successful in singing in Europe and also singing with the Warner Bros records and winning the European Borders Breakers Awards in 2012. Also, the girl band Vanilla Ninja was also one of the famous Estonian bands before the hiatus. Also performers like Kerli, Vaiko Eplik and Eliit and Iris already gained ground outside Estonia.

The metsatoll is also a folk metal band that is mixed with runo-song and the traditional folk instruments with metal, another Estonian folk band is Rand-ants who also perform at the annual minority language music festival Liet-Lavlut with a song in voltic.