Agnes Buen Garnås

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.

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)