Agnes Buen Garnås
Agnes Buen Garnås (born November 23, 1946 ) is a Norwegian folk singer.
Life
Buen Garnås comes from a family of musicians from Jondalen in Telemark who dedicated themselves to Norwegian folk music for generations. Her parents Anders and Margit Buen were well known as a musician like her brothers Hauk and Knut Buen and in the next generation Ingvill Marit , Per Anders and Jon Elling Buen Garnås ..
From 1975 to 1977 she studied cultural work at Høgskolen i Telemark . Since the mid-1970s she has led a seminar for traditional Norwegian singing ( Kveding ) with Dagne Groven Myhren and in 2002 she founded the Norsk Kvedarforum .
Buen Garnås often worked with her brother Knut Buen. Her album Rosensfole (1989) with Jan Garbarek , on which she interpreted Norwegian folk songs as adapted by Garbarek , gained international attention . She received the Spellemann Prize for the album Draumkvedet , which was made in the same year .
She appears in various groups such as Åleine with the dancer Ingebjørg Kittelsaa Vesaas and Per Anders Buen Garnås and Ljod with Marilyn Mazur , Birgit Løkke and Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer and works on projects such as Fugl (with Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer) and the one initiated by the Norwegian Cultural Council in 2002 Klangfuglprosjektet (with Nina Thormodsæter Haugen ) with.
Discography
- Det spelar and syng i Familien Buen , 1975
- Når klokkune gjeve dur , 1976, 2002
- Folk Music of Norway , 1977
- Nordafjølls , 1983
- På gamle tufter with Sondre Bratland , Kåre Nordstoga , Guttorm Guttormsen , Knut Buen, Halvor Håkanes , Warren Carlstrøm and Finn Kvalem , 1985
- Jul med Rupesekken , 1985
- Stem våre understrenger with Knut Buens, 1988
- Draumkvedet with Inger Lise Ulsrud and Knut Buen, 1989
- Tusseliten og Trippeliti with Guttorm Guttormsen and Knut Buen, 1989
- Rosensfole with Jan Garbarek, 1989
- Høgdpunkt frå Landskappleiken , 1994
- Med blanke ark , 1994
- Attersyn , songs by Knut Buens, 1995
- Stev og slått with Knut Buen, 1996
- Det syng with Anne Marit Jacobsen , Halvor Håkanes , Eli Storbekken and Sinikka Langeland , 1997
- Langt inn i hugheimen , songs by Knut Buens, 1997
- Ljos og skugge , songs by Knut Buens, 1998
- Soltreet , 2002
- Han rider den mørke natt , 2002
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garnås, Agnes Buen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian folk singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1946 |