Bukkene Bruse is a Norwegian musical group, focusing on a varied repertoire of traditional and folk-style Norwegian songs, but also including many new compositions based on various Norwegian musical traditions. The members of the group include Annbjørg Lien

Annbjørg Lien

Annbjørg Lien is a Norwegian musician. She plays the hardingfele , violin, and nyckelharpa....

, a prominent Hardanger fiddle

Hardingfele

A Hardanger fiddle is a traditional stringed instrument used originally to play the music of Norway. In modern designs, the instruments are very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings and thinner wood...

 and nyckelharpa

Nyckelharpa

A nyckelharpa , sometimes called a keyed fiddle, is a traditional Swedish musical instrument. It is a string instrument or chordophone. Its keys are attached to tangents which, when a key is depressed, serve as frets to change the pitch of the string.The nyckelharpa is similar in appearance to a...

 (keyed fiddle) player; Arve Moen Bergset

Arve Moen Bergset

Arve Moen Bergset is a folk music performer from Norway. He was born in the Telemark region of that country in 1972. He released two albums of folk and traditional religious music as a boy singer in 1986 and 1987...

, fiddle player and vocalist; flutist Steinar Ofsdal; and pipe organist Bjørn Ole Rasch. The name of the group is taken from the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Three Billy Goats Gruff is a Norwegian fairy tale. The fairy tale was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr, first published between 1841 and 1844...

 (lang-no|De tre bukkene Bruse)!

The group was formed in 1988 in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 and has travelled and has performed widely in Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

 and elsewhere. They were selected as official Olympic Musicians for the Lillehammer Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

 and performed at the closing ceremony.

Albums

• Bukkene Bruse (1993)
• Åre (1995)
• Steinstolen
  Steinstolen
  Steinstolen is the second album from Norwegian folk band Bukkene Bruse. It was released in 1998.-Track listing:# Numedalshalling -Halling From Numedal- # Min Gut -My Boy-...
  
   (1998)
• Den fagraste rosa (2001)
• Spel (2004)