folkBALTICA is a new festival of national und international significance. It provides a unique stage for Nordic and Baltic music culture, as well as from Russia, Poland and Germany.

The annual folkBALTICA is held in April in Flensburg and the neighbouring German-Danish border region.

After jazz (Jazzbaltica) and classical music (Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival), folk music presented in a contemporary form is the third cornerstone of the spectrum of major music festivals in Schleswig-Holstein.

Schleswig-Holstein’s culture minister Ute Erdsiek Rave has spoken of FolkBALTICA as being a “new lighthouse on the musical horizon of Schleswig-Holstein”.

folkBALTICA is a partner of “VISION Schleswig-Holstein” the 2005 business and culture festival organised by the Kiel & Flensburg Chambers of Commerce.

The festival is also receiving a great degree of attention and acceptance in the Nordic countries. FolkBALTICA is a member of arsbaltica, the Baltic cultural network and is funded by the Nordic Cultural Foundation.