FESTIVALS IN 2022
‘Normal service has been resumed,’ rejoices pianist Iain Burnside, artistic director of Ludlow’s annual English Song Weekend (8th-10th April). Being a prudent soul, he adds, ‘As I type these words with one hand, I cross the fingers of the other, muttering fervent prayers to the gods of viral variants.’
It would be an exaggeration to say that festivals – or ‘music meetings’, as such events were called before the Three Choirs Festival set up shop in Gloucester, Hereford