In contrast the Finnish model is exemplary but much could also be learned from the Danish Folk High School or Folkehojskole.

Fircroft College (1909), influenced by the Danish Folk High Schools, was founded a residential college for working men, to broaden their outlook and to increase their self-confidence.

Akrobakkus (2006) reached the World Music charts Europe in February 2007 and was nominated in several categories at the "Danish Folk and World Music Awards".

The formation of the Danish Folk Council to actively promote folk music both at home and abroad has helped raise the profile.

The Danish Folk, Blues, and Ragtime Guitar Festival in Skarrild attracts many international entertainers, including Thomasina Winslow.

They performed in Bad Sobernheim and Skarrild, Denmark at the Danish Folk, Blues, and Ragtime Guitar Festival.

A number of years Béatrice and Gunnar Berg embarked on a unique project with residences, lectures and concerts at the Danish Folk High Schools.

Beethoven's quintet for piano and winds and Hindemith's "Kleine Kammermusik" are linked to Saint-Saens' "Caprice on Danish and Russian Folk Airs," a wind quartet by Rossini and Poulenc's Sextet (426-6470).

British Workers Educational Associations, the Danish Folk High Schools, and Swedish Discussion Circles particularly interested him.