Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 9-12 on this earth,” says Alan Sparhawk
“PEACE plaintively, towards the end of a revelatory set in Utrecht’s 13th-century Jacobikerk. It is a sentiment shared and keenly felt by everyone at this proudly multicultural, multi-venue Dutch festival, which provides a welcome respite from the horrors of the news cycle and its attendant toxic debate, instead promoting an unspoken agenda of openness, curiosity and wonder. Here, there is as much clamour for the astonishing fingerwork of 78-year-old Balochi benju master Ustad Noor Bakhsh as there is for hotly tipped Brooklyn art-punkers Model/Actriz.
Sparhawk’s first show outside