Agnes Buen Garnas

Agnes Buen Garnås (born 23 October 1946) is a Norwegian folk singer from the county of Telemark. She comes from a famous musical family from the town of Jondal, 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.

Contents

• Agnes buen garnas draumkvedet the dream poem
• Dark age of camelot soundtrack agnes buen garnas and jan garbarek rosensfole
• Discography
• References

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

Other family members who are well known as traditional musicians include her brothers, Hauk Buen and Knut Buen, and her son Per Anders Buen Garnås.

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, 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 Finn Kvalem, Guttorm Guttormsen, Knut Buen and Olav Snortheim, 1989

Rosensfole, with Jan Garbarek, 1989

Høgdepunkt frå Landskappleiken, 1994

Med blanke ark, 1994

Attersyn, with Knut Buen, 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, with Knut Buen, 1997

Ljos og skugge, with Knut Buen, 1998

Soltreet, 2002

Han rider den mørke natt, 2002

With Jan Garbarek

Rosensfole (ECM, 1989)

Twelve Moons (ECM, 1992)