Over the years, the special event that is the Ambronay Festival has formed an important part of my musical life, something I attempted to articulate in a special article for EMR on the occasion of the 40th edition of the festival in 2019.
Since then, for a variety of reasons, my visits to Ambronay came to a halt until this year. During that time, some things have inevitably changed, not least that what was a five-weekend event in September and early October has shrunk to three weekends.