Guro Kvifte Nesheim is a musician and composer who plays various types of fiddles: Hardanger d'Amore, Hardanger fiddle, and fiddle. Her musical world spans from traditional Norwegian hardanger fiddle music, through other Scandinavian and Celtic traditions, to free improvisation. Guro has studied with several renowned fiddlers and has received awards in national competitions for her playing.

GKN5 creates modern interpretations of the unique Tovdals tradition and brings the captivating music both to pulsating dance floors at festivals and to the deepest corners of Scandinavian fiddle enthusiasts.

GKN5 are recreating the intricacies of the legendary fiddler Salve Austenå forming it into contemporary ensemble music. It is more than arrangements and compositions - it is a way of listening and co-creating the moment as if being one. Bridging over time and space captivating both pulsating dance floors and the deepest corners of our souls. GKN5 connects generations of Norwegian fiddlers and musicians to the audience of today.

Since the debut the group has released two albums and toured some of the major festivals and venues of Northern Europe with their captivating instrumental music.

Guro Kvifte Nesheim and Mats Edén represent two different generations of folkmusicians, but with an astonishing similar attitude to the traditional music as a genre that foremost is about personal expression, joy and love for the music.

This duo is redefining Hardanger fiddle ensemble playing, as they manage to keep the flexibility and formal freedom of the solo tradition; only possible because of their intimate knowledge of both the music and of each other's ways of exploring musical possibilities. This music is first and foremost playful and spontaneous; as they combine drive, fresh harmonic solutions, and colourful intonation!

On the album Kystnært, Floating Sofa Quartet 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 southern 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.