Viljandi must be a quiet place in usual times, situated down in the south of Estonia, and emanating a small town vibration. Usually its annual four-day folk festival magnetises a massive gathering, ...

During their recent U.S. tour, Estonian zombie-folk duo Puuluup performed an exclusive live show for Seattle-based non-profit ...

The Estonian duo Puuluup is set to bring their Nordic folk music to life at Club Passim on Sunday, October 5. The pair, consisting of Ramo Teder and Marko Veisson, have been together for over 10 years ...

Swedish folk band FRÄNDER will appear at Club Passim with a program rooted in Swedish and Estonian traditions. The group ...

Playing an evening dedicated to the region’s Finno-Ugric culture, Langenu stand apart. Folk or traditional music is typical to this realm. Rock, in any form, is not. This is a first. They are here ...

The biggest folk festival in Scandinavia and the Baltics is revealing the first highlights of its 2026 programme. The initial artists announced are Shetland pianist Amy Laurenson (GB), the ...

This article by Charlie Bertsch was originally published on The Battleground. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. If you stumbled upon Estonian ...

Seto Lelo Polyphonic singing, Estonian folk costumes, Russian arts & crafts, smoke saunas. In Estonia, Christine travels to the Setomaa region, visits an Seto Orthodox church, meets the indigenous ...

In a recent concert at First Church Congregtional in Cambridge, MA, vocal ensemble Musica Sacra sang folk hymns and canticles from two regions that, at first blush, don't seem to have a whole lot to ...

When your scribe first visited the Viljandi Folk Music Festival in 2021, it was still straggling along within the lockdown period, held with a reduced crowd capacity. The long weekend seemed perfectly ...

Seto, like Estonian, Finnish and Sámi, is a Finno-Ugric language. The root is Hungarian, which began spreading north around four millennia ago. Although there are between 15,000 to 20,000 Seto people ...