– It is a huge honor and with joy that I congratulate this years winner of Danish Music Award Folk Prize of Honor, musician, composer, project manager, radio host, politician and SO much more – MORTEN ALFRED HØIRUP!
Those were the words when spokesman Henrik Jansberg from the Danish Music Award (Danish “Grammy”) -commitee revealed this years winner. And the winner – that was me myself – was very happy and smiling while concluding that working with roots and folk music has grown more popular since the 80’s when a girl friend had called me a “kind of out cast”, when I told her that I was making my living from playing folk music.
I am so lucky that I have had the privilege of recieving all in all eight Danish Music Awards during the years, including one as “Danish Folk Composer of the Year 2004”.
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