How did you get involved with Festival International originally?

I was a member of Les Amis des Artistes, which is Friends of the Artists. And the group that was assigned to me was Sanba Yo from Haiti. That changed my life forever because it opened my eyes to a world culture that I knew nothing about prior to that. We took them to family functions. My parents fed them; we fed them at our house. We had jam sessions. Their instruments were very, very crude but that ...