This poetry concert focuses on words and tone.
The concert alternates between solo harpsichord playing and poetry reading – spiced up with brief reflections on life and poetry, where both the serious and the less serious are given space.
The word ‘tun’ has to do with home.
The courtyard is the place where houses frame and create space.
The tree stands in the middle of the yard.
Words and games will revolve around this image – in a broad sense.
The concert was performed as part of the program during this year’s Telemark Festival, to the great enthusiasm of the audience present.
Per Anders Buen Garnås – is a fiddler, trained at the Fiddlers’ School at the Ole Bull Academy in Voss, and was named “Folk Musician of the Year” at FolkeLarm in 2022!
He has won Landskappleiken on the harding fiddle four times, won the FolkeLarm Award twice and been nominated for the Spellemann Award three times.
Stein Versto – from Vinje in Telemark, Norway, is an author and poet, salesman and fiddler.
He made his debut as an author with the short story collection “Ho blei borte i trappene” in 1990, for which he won the Tarjei Vesaas debutant prize.
He has since published three collections of poetry, a novel, a prose book about folk music and emigration, essays and a number of song lyrics set to music by Norwegian artists, including Odd Nordstoga.
The concert is a collaboration with Vinje Folkeakademi and Sørnorsk folkemusikksenter.
There will be an opportunity to buy coffee/tea.
Welcome to the concert! Prices Member: 200,- Non-member: 300,- Organizer and contact information Vinjesenteret Tel: 46706073 E-mail: ingebjorg.nestestog.edland@nynorsk.no Website: https://nynorsk.no/
