Fjørtoft skulekorps, our band, comes from an island inhabited by less than 300 people. The island is situated on the brink of land, where wild waves of the North Atlantic rip off their rage toward the cliffs. The band recruits its members among children and young people of this island.

It is our cultural inheritance that decides our attitudes and our standards of value. It is the acknowledgement of this that became the foundation for a reform process in our band. We have changed the band to give it an identity corresponding to the original culture of our coastal society. In other words, enforcing local identity is a central element of the process.

The band has new 'uniforms' inspired by traditional costumes of the coastal district. The shirts are decorated with a brooch copied from one found on our island in a woman's grave from the Viking period.

Our goal is to use the band's playing as a part of a harmony maker; harmony in the local society, and as a foundation for a local rallying point. We will work to maintain local common values and at the same time train for operating with the global values. This by seeking impulses from the local traditions and at the same time using Souza and Lloyd Webber as natural sources of inspiration.

And the eternal pulse, represented by waves of the ocean being crushed against the island's shores, beat on through what we are trying to create..