Cait Vitale-Sullivan was steeped in the high desert wilderness of Idaho as a child. She is intrigued by the human connection to nature, art, and music, and in how all of these things interact. In 2013 she moved to Norway where she was introduced to Scandinavian traditional music and majestic fjords. After returning to Idaho to finish a degree in Ecology and Conservation Biology she returned to Sweden to complete a Fulbright grant studying the connection between Kulning (Swedish cow calling music) and landscape. There she attended Malungs Folkhögskola to study Swedish folk music. She has sung with Balkan vocal group Svitanya (now Vesna) in Philadelphia, as well as in smaller groups singing American traditional music, and is passionate about bringing music to community spaces. She leads the local folk singing group "Sjungarfolket" (Singing People). 

She is currently pursuing a PhD in Scandinavian Studies and holds a master’s degree in Agroecology and a master’s degree in Scandinavian Studies from University of Wisconsin Madison.