I länstolen: Månskensbonden

11.09.2026 19:00 – 21:00

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In this evening’s I länstolen (“In the armchair”), Markus Bergfors, the man behind the band Månskensbonden, is interviewed. The evening’s themes explore making music in dialect and the Ostrobothnian mental landscape. The interview is conducted by Johannes Brusila, Professor of Musicology at Åbo Akademi University. The discussion is held in Swedish.

The river Kyrönjoki, the Mississippi of Ostrobothnia, flows from Seinäjoki into the Baltic Sea through the small village of Kvevlax, just north of Vaasa. It was there—between countryside and city, Finnish and Swedish, religious and secular—that Månskensbonden grew up among mopeds, prayer houses, and indie music.

With songs dug up from the soil, he sings of things like liberation through music, the middle class’s guilty conscience, human loneliness, and trying to overcome that loneliness through love and community.

These are songs about giving it your all just to be heard.

The breakthrough came in 2015 with the single Döpt i Kyro älv, followed by the debut album Vårat Ödeland, named one of the best albums of 2018 by HBL. Since then, Månskensbonden has written music for theatre, created a critically acclaimed performance together with Alfred Backa, Rickard Eklund, and Josefin Sirén, and released two more full-length albums. The third album, Svindel och lågtryck, was released in April 2025 and recorded in Umeå with musicians from, among others, Honungsvägen and Vasas Flora och Fauna.