Värttinä has been featured in two episodes of popular animated children's show Arthur singing their hit song "Matalii ja Mustii" from the album Seleniko.

The song was also featured on the show's first soundtrack, Arthur and Friends: The First Almost Real Not Live CD (Or Tape).

[2] After the group ceased in 1983, the girls established Värttinä, which they entered into a youth arts event and made their way into the finals.

[3] Folk music circles became aware of the band as the one singing "korkeelta ja kovvoo" (high and loud).

When the group finally could not be made any bigger, Sari established a band called Sirmakka for the youngest ones wanting to join.

[3] Instruments used were kantele, acoustic guitar, double bass, violin, accordion, saxophone, flute, and tin whistle.

But the Kaasinen sisters, Janne Lappalainen, Kirsi Kähkönen, and Minna Rautiainen did not want to give up because they had just found their own way of making music, and the beginning of the new Värttinä followed.

[1] Sari started singing with the other girls, and the background line-up stabilized as consisting of Janne Lappalainen, Tommi Viksten, Tom Nyman, Riitta Potinoja, and Kari Reiman.

The year 1992 brought a lot of concerts and the Emma Award, and some members were changed due to the tightening pace.

Music from the album Seleniko (an excerpt from the track Matalii ja mustii) was featured on the American children's television show Arthur.

After the release of Kokko, Värttinä started its first tours in Japan and Australia, even though Sari Kaasinen had to leave the band for family reasons, and only three women were left as singers.

All compositions were made by the band's male members, and they contained more complex changes in time and also the singing melodies became rhythmically more diverse.

It was released in the beginning of the next year, simultaneously with the book Korkeelta ja kovvoo by Kimmo Nevalainen.

In 2002, the violinist Kari Reiman, bassist Pekka Lehti and original Värttinä singer Kirsi Kähkönen left the band, too.

Later in the same year Värttinä was invited to compose music for the Lord of the Rings theatrical adaptation, based on the book by J. R. R. Tolkien.

In 2008, Värttinä toured Finland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium, in support of their 25th anniversary CD.

The concert in Tampere (Finland) was filmed by Filmiteollisuus Oy and was broadcast on YLE Finnish national TV.

In 2010, Susan Aho and Johanna Virtanen represented Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo as Kuunkuiskaajat.