Members: Knut Aalefjær, Stein Erik Tafjord, Morten Halle, Rob Waring, Elin Rosseland, Nils Jansen, Frank Jakobsen, Vidar Johansen, Jan Magne Førde, Tom Olstad, Carl Haakon Waadeland, Christian Jaksjø, Tor Mathisrud, Edvard Askeland, Rune Klakegg, Per Einar Watle, Vigleik Storaas, Bjørn Alterhaug, Bodhild Vossgård Mathisrud, John Pål Inderberg, Eldbjørg Raknes, Torgrim Sollid, Åge Midtgaard, Ove Stokstad, Tore Engstrøm, Tove Karoline Knutsen, Nils Tro, Morten Lassem, Per Gamre, Astrid Kvalbein, Jan Andresen, Guro Gravem Johansen

Norwegian group initiated by Torgrim Sollid in 1976. The band emerged from the work of Sollid of recreating traditional music from Østerdalen in Norway -- a ork that resulted in the album Østerdalsmusikk.

On the band name:
The word 'søyr' [from Norse "saurr" (usually translated as 'muck'), related to English 'sour' and German 'sauer'] is a dialect word from the region where some of the music originates. Søyr is the strong, foul smell of wet, woolen, dirty and smelly socks -- and of the feet within! -- after several days (weeks!) of hard, intense labour on the summer farm or after trecking over the mountains for weeks..