Name: folkBALTICA Festival 2026
Start: 2026-05-02T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-05-10T00:00:00+00:00
Location: Spielorte in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein und Süddänemark

folkBALTICA

About folkBALTICA

Since 2005, folkBALTICA has been the German-speaking flagship for folk music from the Nordic and Baltic regions. For nine days every spring, the festival transforms Flensburg and the German-Danish border region into a cross-border stage: around 28 concerts at 24 venues — from St. Jürgen's Church in Flensburg to cultural centers, castle courtyards, and parish halls, as well as venues in Southern Denmark — bring together the best of the Scandinavian, Baltic, and North German folk scene. The festival is shaped by the folkBALTICA Ensemble, which gathers young musicians from Germany, Denmark, and the Baltic states, and by the folkBALTICA Choir, which opens the annual season. With around 6,000 visitors, folkBALTICA is one of Northern Europe's most important folk festivals.

Dates 02 May — 10 May 2026

Venue Flensburg (01001)

Prices Since 12.00€

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Edition 2026

folkBALTICA — edition 2026

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The 22nd folkBALTICA runs from May 2nd to 10th, 2026, under the motto „Horizons“. 28 concerts at 24 venues in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Southern Denmark, including a highlight at St. Jürgen's Church with the Baltic Sisters and six other acts. Artists from Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Sweden, and Scotland.

With the motto „Horizons“, folkBALTICA 2026 focuses on a program line that explicitly defines the festival as a stage for crossover, new sound worlds, and the „non-mainstream“. Over nine days from May 2nd to 10th, 2026, the German-Danish border region will be transformed into a folk stage. 28 concerts at 24 venues showcase the breadth of the Nordic, Baltic, and North German folk scene.

Confirmed artists for 2026 include the in-house folkBALTICA Ensemble, the Sønderjysk Pigekor, the Kiming Ensemblet, Sebastian's Nordic Lights, Andreas Hofmeir, Stundom, the Baltic Sisters (Estonia), Rasmus Lyberth (Greenland), and Catriona MacDonald (Shetland).

Highlights folkBALTICA 2026

Voices of the Baltic Sea in St. Jürgen's Church on May 8th, Baltic Sisters from Estonia, Rasmus Lyberth from Greenland, Catriona MacDonald from Shetland, folkBALTICA Matinée on May 10th.

Programme folkBALTICA 2026

Program Highlights folkBALTICA 2026 (May 2nd–10th)

Opening — folkBALTICA Ensemble and folkBALTICA Choir on May 2nd
Sunday, May 10th, 2026, 11:00 AM — folkBALTICA Matinée with Flach I Østerby (DK), Museumsberg Flensburg
Friday, May 8th, 2026 — Voices of the Baltic Sea: the quartet Baltic Sisters (Estonia) together with the folkBALTICA Choir, Polish singer Marta Matuszna, and six other acts in St. Jürgen's Church Flensburg
Other Artists — Sønderjysk Pigekor (DK), Kiming Ensemblet, Sebastian's Nordic Lights, Andreas Hofmeir, Stundom, Rasmus Lyberth (Greenland), Catriona MacDonald (Shetland)
Concerts spread across venues in Flensburg, Husum, Schleswig, the Schlei region, the island of Föhr, and Southern Denmark

Full program and tickets at folkbaltica.de/konzerte/programm. Single tickets from €12.

Prices folkBALTICA 2026

Single tickets from €12. Multi-day festival passes available. Advance sales via reservix.de, Flensburg Tourist Information, and folkbaltica.de.

Practical information

Practical information — folkBALTICA

Getting There

Flensburg is accessible via the A7 motorway (exit Flensburg) and by train (Flensburg station, Hamburg–Padborg line). Within the festival, venues are sometimes spread out — folkBALTICA recommends using a car or bicycle for rural locations.

Tickets

Single tickets from €12, multi-day festival passes available. Advance sales via reservix.de and folkbaltica.de.

On Site

Program in German and Danish, many concerts with instrumental music (language-neutral). Festival café in the courtyard at Norderstraße 89 with catering.

Flensburg and the German-Danish Borderland

Flensburg, with around 90,000 inhabitants, is Germany's northernmost major city and is located in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, directly on the German-Danish border. For centuries, the city has had a bilingual identity: German and Danish are cultivated side-by-side here, and cultural life oscillates between the two language areas. It is precisely this border location that gives folkBALTICA its character — no other German festival collaborates so consistently with Danish, Baltic, Swedish, Finnish, and Faroese artists.

20 Years of folkBALTICA

The festival was founded in 2005 by folkBALTICA e.V. at Norderstraße 89 in Flensburg. In two decades, it has grown from a regional folk gathering into one of the most important stages for Nordic and Baltic music culture in the German-speaking world. Mottos of past years range from Women on the Baltic Sea Coast to Songs Against the Winter; in 2026, the festival will be held under the motto „Horizons“.

Venues: A Festival Without a Festival Site

Unlike many open-air festivals, folkBALTICA does not have a single festival site but uses around 24 venues — churches, cultural centers, castle courtyards, parish communities, museums, and private courtyards — spread across Flensburg, the Schlei region, Husum, Schleswig, the island of Föhr, and several municipalities in Southern Denmark. In Flensburg itself, the St. Jürgen's Church, the Museumsberg Museum, and the courtyard at Norderstraße 89 (Festival Office) are regular venues.

Programmatic Focus

The 2026 program, under the motto „Horizons“, combines the following focal points: the folkBALTICA Ensemble with young Nordic musicians, the traditional Sønderjysk Pigekor, the Kiming Ensemblet, Sebastian's Nordic Lights, Andreas Hofmeir, Stundom, the Estonian Baltic Sisters, Rasmus Lyberth (Greenland), and Catriona MacDonald (Shetland). The highlight on Friday, May 8, 2026, is the concert Voices of the Baltic Sea with the Baltic Sisters in St. Jürgen's Church, supported by six other acts including the folkBALTICA Choir and Polish singer Marta Matuszna.