American Café Orchestra
American Café Orchestra
Top Songs
| 1 | Onion Cubes | ||
| 2 | Back in the Rocking Chair | ||
| 3 | Bell | ||
| 4 | Blindfold Trippevals | ||
| 5 | Oikotie |
Albums
Nov 2011 • 14 songs
Jan 1999 • 16 songs
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Biography
The folk traditions of North America are combined with the traditional music of Ireland, Scandinavia, and Hungary by the American Café Orchestra. Despite this ambitious-sounding name, the group is actually a duo featuring New England-born fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld and Danish guitarist Morten Alfred Høirup. Dornfeld (a former member of Boston-based contredance ensemble Yankee Ingenuity, eclectic string band the Poodles) conceived the American Café Orchestra after meeting Høirup at a bluegrass festival in Denmark in 1985. During periodic visits to each other's homeland, the two in...