A Norwegian avant-garde group.

The band was formed in Trondheim in 1991. All members were students of the Jazz Department at the Conservatory of Trondheim. At first Farmers Market started out as a free-jazz quintet, but soon found itself heading in a completely different direction - towards Bulgarian folk-music. Since then, this Bulgarian music, with its odd metres, oriental scales and improvisational possibilities, has become one of the main musical ingredients of Farmers Market, together with some jazz standards, popular music and humour .

It has become one of Norway's most popular live bands, playing at all kinds of venues and festivals - jazz, folk and rock. They released their first album, Speed/Balkan/Boogie, in 1995, a live recording from the Molde International Jazz festival in 1994.

The first Farmers Market saxophonist, Håvard Lund, left the band in 1995 and the band had to look to Bulgaria to get a replacement, Trifon Trifonov, who joined in December 1995 after a telephone audition.

In 1997, they released their second album. This was an extreme album with elements of many different styles and ideas from bluegrass in odd metres, to Metallica-like versions of traditional Balkan tunes, and slick commercial music mixed with Stockhausen. The album got very good reviews from many contemporary music magazines as well as rock, folk and jazz magazines in Europe. This album made a certain Mr. Mike Patton lose his breakfast and initiate a spamfest towards the bandmembers the result of which might possibly result in a collaboration.

Farmers Market went into hibernation for a year around 1998-1999. Upon returning to the bopping R(umenian) & B(ulgarian) scene in 2000 Farmers Market had a new record which they released on the German label Winter & Winter.

Over the years, Farmers Market has played a few concerts, even a few with guest musicians, including the late Michael Brecker.