New year, same life.

After the first impacts of the pandemic, much was said about the return of normality. The new-normal became a concept and the post-pandemic became an inescapable subject. The most optimistic believed that everything was going to change. The pessimists were convinced that everything would remain the same. Perhaps it is still too early to conclude with certainty, but it is most likely that neither one nor the other will get it right. We are left somewhere in the middle of the road. Not everything, nor nothing.

As far as Cistermúsica was concerned, it was the same. Not everything, nor nothing. The will to get a festival off the ground was maintained, while most of the long-standing restrictions remained in place. We maintained the distance, the audience and the artists while a new air was breathed. A lighter one, with less weight of the pandemic's effects. An air closer to a festival in times before the pandemic. Is this the new (ab)normal?