Agnes Buen Garnås

Agnes Buen Garnås (23 October 1946 – 12 November 2024) was a Norwegian folk singer from the county of Telemark. She came from a famous musical family from Jondalen in Gransherad Municipality (now in Kongsberg Municipality), and was 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)