Agnes Buen Garnås

Agnes Buen Garnås (born 23 November 1946) is a Norwegian folk singer from the county of Telemark. She comes from a famous musical family from the town of Jondalen, and is known particularly for her singing of ancient unaccompanied Norwegian ballads, as well as her updated arrangements of these songs in collaboration with the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek on the ECM album "Rosensfole".

From 1975 to 1977, she studied at the Telemark University College.

Her brother, with whom she has recorded, is the traditional musician Knut Buen.

Discography

*Det spelar og syng i familien Buen, 1975
*Når klokkune gjeve dur, 1976, 2002
*Folk Music of Norway, 1977
*Nordafjølls, 1983
*På gamle tufter mit Sondre Bratland, Kåre Nordstoga, Guttorm *Guttormsen, Knut Buen, Halvor Håkanes, Warren Carlstrøm und 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 mit Guttorm Guttormsen und Knut Buen, 1989
*Rosensfole (with Jan Garbarek), 1989
*Høgdepunkt frå Landskappleiken, 1994
*Med blanke ark, 1994
*Attersyn, Lieder von Knut Buens, 1995
*Stev og slått (with Knut Buen), 1996
*Det syng mit Anne Marit Jacobsen, Halvor Håkanes, Eli Storbekken und *Sinikka Langeland, 1997
*Langt inn i hugheimen, Lieder von Knut Buens, 1997
*Ljos og skugge, Lieder von Knut Buens, 1998
*Soltreet, 2002
*Han rider den mørke natt, 2002

References

External links

* [http://www.agnesbuen.no/ Agnes Buen Garnås official site]
* [http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=211 Agnes Buen Garnås page] (English)
* [http://www.rfod.se/noreg/detail.asp?lang=no&Nr=1040 Agnes Buen Garnås page] (Norwegian)
* [http://www.tvfolk.net/ Agnes Buen Garnås video] (click on "Norway," then select Buen Garnås' video from the list]