Tellefs

WHERE: Festival pub and The North Sea Concert, Saturday

Norwegian mows and Irish reels and jigs - and some hymns and hymns

Tellefs is a musical playroom where the musicians work in the gap between creating a new expression and at the same time highlighting the music from two distinctive traditions. The band tackles the songs with irreverent respectability (or vice versa), and the songs are never played the same way twice in a row.

Bandmaster Tellef Kvifte has picked up a new instrument (in addition to the many he has played for a number of years), namely taragot, which is a close relative of the soprano sax. We usually find the instrument in Eastern European folk music, but here Tellef uses the instrument to explore kinship and similarities between Norwegian and Irish music.

Tellef Kvifte has been involved for a few decades, from now legendary recordings in the 70s ("Heitaste slåtten" and "Slinkombas"), via Chateau Neuf spellemannslag, to the folk/free-improv/electro band LuckyLoop, alongside various jazz contexts , with Mathilde Grooss Viddal's FriEnsmble as the last.

Knut Kvifte Nesheim is a drummer and composer based in Oslo. With a background and upbringing in Norwegian folk music, jazz and classical percussion, Knut thrives in a genre-diffused landscape in everything from solo performances to large ensembles. He is active as a composer and performer in OJKOS, Doomsday Preppers, BenReddik, Skrekk og Guro, Julius, Espera and his own recording quartet "Deliverables", in addition to participating in recordings with Mathilde Grooss Viddal's FriEnsemblet, Camilla Hole Trio, Greta Eacott's G Bop Orchestra and Ivar Orvedal.

Magnus Wiik, multi-instrumentalist, who has toured the world with his own and others' projects for close to 20 years. He has received awards, released a dozen critically acclaimed records of his own music and played with some of the leading names in Irish and Norwegian folk music, bluegrass and jazz. Of own projects, the bands Open String Department, Haley's Comet and Ellestad Wiik Duo are worth mentioning.

Åsmund Reistad plays various guitar and bass instruments. In autumn 2021, he released the solo album "89% folkemusikk", which consists of self-written folk music for guitar, mixed with elements from other styles. In addition to folk music, he plays shows and jazz, and has collaborated with a number of bands and artists: Aasmund Nordstoga, Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, Birgitte Damberg Trio, Trispann, Vegar Vårdal, Ingunn Bjørgo, Marianne Tomasgård and others.