Vara is a very small town. As of 2010, it had a recorded 3,889 inhabitants.

Before performing at the Vara Konserthus, we stayed in a snow-flanked house in the middle of a wood.

It was extremely cold.

Andrew Berridge, viola player for Scottish Ensemble, took photos as the group travelled around Sweden on the Dancenet Sweden tour of Goldberg Variations - ternary patterns for insomnia (27 Jan - 6 Feb 2016). This was the second time that the performance had come to Sweden; it premiered in Stockholm on 17 September 2015.