Morten Alfred & Vingården

New Nordic music cultivated, harvested and refined in our musical vineyard

Morten Alfred & Vingården plays music primarily composed by Morten Alfred Høirup, processed and refined by the trio, which consists of professional people from the Danish music scene. The repertoire consists of melodies that have matured on the Danish and international folk music scene, as well as new fresh compositions.

Morten Alfred & Vingården is, in addition to Morten Alfred himself on guitar, harmonica and vocals, a violinist and a folk musician. Kristian Bugge and saxophonist Charlotte Andersson. The three released the EP Grapes/Grapes in March 2023, and will release the album The Harvest Festival in the fall of 2026. The latter will also feature the tough young clarinetist, Martin Strange Lorenzen.

The music is written to be listened to as well as danced to, and the band likes to play for dancing, often in collaboration with their good friend and co-conspirator, Henrik 'from Stevns' LarsenThe songs are about the life we live, about sorrows and joys and fun and trouble. The trio's repertoire consists of titles such as Ingel's waltz, The castle, Guest offer, My Orchestra, Waltz for an old Swedish lady, New Bourrée/The Vineyard, The Way I Walk, The Tale of the House by the Sea, The Way Home and The autumn festival.

Morten Alfred has been composing music since childhood and has, among other things, received one Danish Music Award as Danish Folk Composer of the Year in 2004. He published the sheet music collection in early summer 2022 Ingela's Waltz – 25 New Danish Folk Melodies, which includes chord suggestions and stories about a long life journey with music.

The trio's sound is colored by the musicians' background in, among other things, traditional Danish folk music, baroque music, church music, skiffle music, wedding music and much more, and Vingården regularly plays at venues, festivals and in churches in Denmark and abroad.

Charlotte Andersson: Saxophones, singing

Is a trained saxophonist, singer and organist, and has, among other things, guest appearance in Det Kgl. Chapel, DR Symphony Orchestra and the Opera in Malmö. Andersson has toured with baroque music and recent compositional music in the Nordic countries, Great Britain, the USA, and South Korea. She helped start the Copenhagen Saxophone Quartet with whom she received the DR P2 Award in 2003 for best chamber music recording. She is also known for her work with the trio Petri-Fischer-Andersson (with recorder player Michala Petri and jazz guitarist Jacob Fischer), and with composer and jazz pianist Thomas Clausen.

Kristian Bugge: Violin, singing

Was appointed in 2014 as a member of 'Danmarks Rigsspillemænd', an exclusive association consisting of around a dozen fiddlers who have particularly distinguished themselves within the traditional Danish fiddler's music. Kristian Bugge has received a number of awards, including DR's Radium Prize in 2004 and a Danish Music Award as 'Danish Folk Instrumentalist of the Year' in 2016. He tours continuously in large parts of the world, not least in the USA, with the accordion/violin duos Gangspil and Jensen & Bugge. Also performs with Jagdselskabet, Wenzell & Bugge, as well as with folk big band Habadekuk.

Morten Alfred Høirup: Guitar, harmonica, singing

Played from quite young in his father's wedding orchestra, and gradually became part of the Danish and international folk music scene. For almost four decades, Morten Alfred has toured large parts of the world with traditional as well as new Danish music. In this connection, he has received a number of Danish Music Awards (10), including 'Danish Folk Composer of the Year 2004', and 'Traditions Award of the Year 2016' (together with Kristian, among others). Morten Alfred is probably best known for his work with the violin and guitar duo Haugaard & Høirup (1998 – 2008), the folk/world ensemble Himmerland (2010 – 2015), and the Danish-Finnish-American trio American Café Orchestra.