Kystnært

Revived coastal music from Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Finland.

For almost a decade Floating Sofa Quartet (FSQ) has been working across borders with their own take on Nordic folk music – shedding light on the shared cultural heritage of the Nordic countries and creating music that is both preserving and renewing their tradition(s).

Now FSQ joins forces with the renowned Norwegian fiddler Guro Kvifte Nesheim to take a plunge into the kindred musical traditions of the coastal regions of Norway, Sweden, Denmark & Finland!

Commissioned by the Farsund Folk Festival the project Kystnært (near the coast) is centered around the regional folk music of Agder in sourthern Norway – a tradition that has a clear kinship to the music of its neighbouring countries. With Agder as a starting point Kystnært explores the similarities between an assortment of musical bits and pieces from the Nordic coastal regions, fusing them all into a vivid contemporary concert experience.

“(…)this pairing of the Floating Sofa Quartet (whose members hail from Denmark, Sweden, and Finland) with Norwegian hardanger fiddle player Nesheim creates a kind of Scandinavia dream team.(…)You can try to keep your foot still, but you won’t succeed.”

– Chris Nickson, Rootsworld.com

”There’s so much to love in the very original but organic way that the Floating Sofa Quartet approaches their music. Especially with Guro Kvifte Nesheim on the hardanger fiddle adds a whole another layer to love about the music(…)”
– Jameson Foster, the Nordic Sound Channel