The Baltic Sisters

The Baltic Sisters is an international project of traditional music that was born far from the shores of the Baltic in late 2022 at the WOMEX music expo in Lisbon, where singers from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania came together. Initially, The Baltic Sisters were united by their passion for sutartinės – ancient Lithuanian multipart songs, but now their repertoire also includes traditional music from Estonia and Latvia.

In the group’s concerts, you can hear Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian folk songs separately, as well as intertwined, creating a unique and distinct sound. The singers also conduct masterclasses in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian traditional singing.

The Baltic Sisters have recorded a collaborative tune with the overtone singers from the Barcelona Overtone Singing Choir MuOM in Spain – the Lithuanian sutartinė Saulala, which is included in the 2023 release of the contemporary folk music compilation Sviests 10.

In January 2025, The Baltic Sisters released their debut album Värav / Vārti / Vartai (gateway in Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian) under the German label CPL-Music. The album features polyphonic folk songs arranged by the group, including a long call from Southern Kurzeme, the lyrical song “Soka saule rītiedama” from Latgale, UNESCO-listed Lithuanian sutartinės, Seto songs from Estonia, and several compositions blending the musical traditions of all three nations. “Our first album is a gateway to the world of Baltic traditional music, as we hear, feel, and share it with others. The songs we chose are those through which we met and got to know each other,” the group members explain.

The group has already participated in Lithuania’s largest ethno music festival Mėnuo Juodaragis in 2023, and they performed at the Valmiermuiža Ethno Music Festival in Latvia and the Viljandi Folk Music Festival in Estonia, at the Buskers festival de Neuchatel in Switzerland in the summer of 2024 as well as at the Tallinn Music Week and the festival Arrée Voce in France in 2025.