Both Alison Balsoms's birthplace and the location of the Royston Arts Festival are located where?
Hertfordshire, England
Royston Arts Festival
Royston Arts Festival is a festival of the arts in Royston, Hertfordshire (UK).
 It was originally initiated and directed by the composer Richard Lambert (from 1982–1986) and was revived in 2007.
 It takes place annually in the last week of September.
 In recent years it has featured the trumpeter Alison Balsom, the theatre Director Robin Belfield, the author/illustrator James Mayhew, the poet Wendy Cope, Megson and the Daleks.
 In its earlier incarnation it was associated with the Master of the Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson, who premiered at least one work at the festival.
 Voluntary arts groups who regularly contribute to the festival include the Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS), Royston Town Band, Royston Arts Society and Royston Photographic Society.
Alison Balsom
Alison Louise Balsom OBE (born in Hertfordshire, England on 7 October 1978) is an English trumpet soloist, arranger, producer, music educator, curator and spokesperson for the importance of music education.
 Balsom was awarded Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards and has won three Classic BRIT Awards and three German Echo Awards, and was soloist at the BBC Last Night of the Proms in 2009.
 She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Leicester and Anglia Ruskin University, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Sled Island
The Sled Island Music & Arts Festival is an annual independent music and arts festival held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
 Since 2007, Sled Island's thoughtful, eclectic programming and independent spirit have fused with Calgary's youthful energy to produce a one-of-a-kind festival experience.
 Each June, the five-day music and arts festival brings together a community of over 300 bands, visual artists, filmmakers and comedians as well as over 40,000 attendees in more than 35 venues, transforming the city into an arts lover's paradise that has earned rave reviews from artists, fans and media from across the globe. Algoma Fall Festival
The Algoma Fall Festival is an annual arts festival, usually held in October, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.
 The Algoma Arts Festival Association was incorporated in 1972 and the first festival was held in 1973 (1973) .
 The festival was established to help promote the performing and visual arts, as well as increase tourism and entertain area residents.
 The festival has hosted various local, Canadian, and internationally renowned performers, such as: Wynton Marsalis, Canadian Brass, Emily Carr, Adrienne Clarkson, Dizzy Gillespie, Marcel Marceau, Stephan Grappelli, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sharon Lois and Bram, and others. Lubbock Arts Festival
The Lubbock Arts Festival is an annual arts festival held in April at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in Lubbock, Texas.
 The festival is the largest fine arts and crafts show in West Texas.
 Since its establishment in 1978, the Lubbock Arts Festival focuses on visual, performing, culinary, and children’s art.
 The 2013 Lubbock Arts Festival drew a record attendance of over 30,000.
 In 2014, the Silent Wings Museum participated in the festival. Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (Afrikaans for "Little Karoo National Arts Festival" and usually abbreviated to "KKNK") is an Afrikaans language arts festival that takes place yearly in the South African town of Oudtshoorn.
 The festival includes both the visual and the performing arts and is officially recognized by the South African government as a national arts festival.
 Based on the number of visitors, it is also the largest South African arts festival. All Points West Music &amp; Arts Festival
The All Points West Music & Arts Festival was an annual music and arts festival held at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey.
 First held in August 2008, it is hosted by Goldenvoice/AEG Live events, the same company that hosts the similar annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival every year in Indio, California.
 The event lasts all day, from noon to about midnight, for eleven and a half hours per day.
 All Points West 2009 was held on July 31, August 1 and 2 featuring both music, comedy and art, much like its counterpart in Indio. Hilton Arts Festival
The Hilton Arts Festival is an arts festival in South Africa.
 It is held on the Hilton College campus each year in September and runs for four days.
 The festival began in 1993 and was designed to emulate the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Fresh Fruit Festival
The Fresh Fruit Festival is a New York summer arts festival featuring the work of LGBT artists.
 Held every July, the festival was founded by Carol Polcovar in 2003, and sponsored by All Out Arts and New Village Productions.
 It is currently a program of All Out Arts a 501c3 organization.
 It includes a wide range of plays, visual arts, dance, and film presentations.
 Along with the Hot!
 Festival, it is among the most prominent LGBT-themed festivals in the New York artistic community.
 Fresh Fruit Festival enters its 10th year in 2011.
 Carol Polcovar held the position of Artistic Director of the festival for the past seven year.
 Frank Calo a long time Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway producer is the current Artistic Director.
 Fresh Fruit Festival is the only grassroots multidiscipline LGBT Arts Festival in NYC, growing not from a theater group but from LGBT political activists seeking to fight homophobia through the arts. Chris Tally Evans
Chris Tally Evans is a British disabled artist, actor, director and writer.
 He trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama as a performer and graduated from Trinity College, London with a teaching diploma.
 Evans' interest in theatre and music started as a teenager when he joined West Glamorgan Youth Theatre and West Glamorgan Youth Arts Company as an actor, dancer and musician.
 He was lead guitarist for the West Glamorgan Youth Arts Company production of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall and London's Wembley Arena and was a dancer in Vaughan Williams' "Job" at a performance attended by Prince Charles and Princess Diana in 1981.
 In both these productions he shared the stage with Russell T Davies, writer and producer of Dr Who.
 By the age of 14 he was playing the guitar semi-professionally in pubs and clubs in the Swansea area, as well as for a number of theatre shows.
 For two years at this time he was lead guitarist in the backing band of a very young Catherine Zeta-Jones.
 Later Evans played in a number of bands including the electric folk band Straight From the Wood who chalked up memorable appearances at Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff, Gwyl Pontardawe Festival and the Village Pump Folk Festival in Trowbridge.
 Evans has had both poetry and prose published, directed many theatre productions and has performed himself in the United States, Canada, Poland and New Zealand.
 His film work was exhibited at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, in 2011.
 The Arts Council of Wales granted Evans a Major Creative Wales Award in 2009 and he performed work created at this time at the InterACT Disability Arts Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.
 His unlimited commission, "Turning Points", was shown in the Southbank Centre, London during the 2012 Paralympic Games and then went on to be exhibited in Doha, Qatar in 2013 as part of the Middle East’s first ever disability arts festival.
 He has featured in HTV’s award winning documentary, One in Six, on BBC 2W’s The Arts Show, and wrote and performed a 5-part series for BBC Radio 4 called "My Mile of the River".
 His March 2014 production, "21st Century Dinosaurs", with a visually impaired cast, was reviewed favourably by Sarah Finch of National Theatre Wales.
 He wrote, performed and made video content for National Theatre Wales/Celf o Gwmpas' Big Democracy Project which responded to the question "Are disabled people an easy target for the cuts?"
 in June 2015.
 In 2015 he was appointed a National Adviser to the Arts Council of Wales.