CHRIS RONALD

I'm back home in Vancouver and thinking back to a European tour best summed up by one word: uplifting. The tour started and ended with festivals: La Notte Rossa in Italy and Derby Folk Festival in the UK. The former takes place one night in the ancient hilltop town of Volterra with people milling about enjoying various performing arts from all over the world. The latter is a weekend-long celebration of folk music and dance happening at various venues around Derby, the city where I grew up. Performing in Derby Museum, where I occasionally browsed as a kid, was a fantastic ending to a wonderful month-long tour. At all the venues in between, from Germany to Belgium to Netherlands, I was met with kindness, generous hospitality, and... read more