If you stop enjoying life for a while, sing it off with a song of life

If you stop enjoying life for a while sing it

“I’m lying on my pillow dreaming quietly, Manuela, I tore up your picture.” Since last night, life songs like this have been resounding through the city center of Utrecht. The thirtieth edition of the Smartlap Festival has started and that means a weekend full of sentimental songs about failed love, loneliness and other misery. For some, the genre is a guilty pleasure, for others something to hold on to in difficult times.

rnl-general-02