Norway // Vocals, guitar
Knut Reiersrud is a Norwegian guitarist, composer and singer. He originally became known as a blues musician but has developed a musical expression that combines many different genres, including Norwegian traditional music and African music. Reiersrud has recorded and played with David Lindley, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Rickie Lee Jones, Nina Hagen and Swedish blues musician Sven Zetterberg. He has also had numerous collaborations with Middle East performers like Rim Banna and Mahsa Vahdat. He is lead guitarist and one of the original members of Cloudberry Cream. In 2021, the Knut Reiersrud Band and the Kringkastingsorkestret released interpretations of music by Antonín Dvořák and Ludwig van Beethoven on the album A New World.