Chapter 500

At seven o'clock in the evening, Clara Willa appeared at the door of the hotel on time. After asking Fang about the number of people still attending the festival in advance, Clara didn't drive her own car to pick up the plane at the airport this time. Instead, she drove a seven seater SUV.

After Xiao Yao and the other three got on the bus, he found that in addition to Clara Willa, there were two young men, a man and a woman, sitting in the driver's seat and the co driver's seat respectively. After a brief introduction, Xiao Yao knew that the two were friends who went to the music festival together as Clara Willa mentioned on the phone. The girl with black hair in the co driver's seat is Kira BEA, a classmate of Clara Willa in Clement College of art. She studies fine arts and is good at oil painting. The blonde boy in the driver's seat is Clara Willa's neighbor, Andrew Belmont, a guitarist in the band.

The venue of the International Jazz Festival is in a park in the urban area, which is not far from Xiao Yao's hotel. However, because there is a music festival before and a film festival after, many people have flocked here during this period, which makes the city extremely crowded. This time point is the last time of the music festival, and many people set out for the show The traffic in the city is also very congested. Less than 20 kilometers away, a few people spent more than half an hour on the road.

Fortunately, several people in the car are of the same age, and they are all studying and engaged in art related industries. Whether it's art, performance or music, Xiao Yao can talk. Fang and Pei Minyi have been Xiao Yao's assistants for such a long time. Under Xiao Yao's influence, they can at least have something to say in music. Therefore, after more than half an hour's drive, several people in the car quickly got acquainted with each other.

Six people park their cars in the nearby parking lot. When they walk into the park, the performance hasn't started yet, but there are a lot of music lovers in the park.

Clement Ferrand's ongoing International Jazz Festival is one of the oldest in the world. It was first held in the 1960s in the world. The original venue was in Belfort, France. After decades of development, it has become a tour among several cities in France. In terms of music form, it has changed from the original pure jazz performance to a comprehensive music festival dominated by jazz, including folk music, classical music, rock music and experimental music.

"There are three venues for tonight's performance." After entering the park, Andrew Belmont also enthusiastically introduced Xiao Yao to the three people, "one is an open-air performance place, which mainly performs rock music and electronic music. These performers are not necessarily very famous bands or singers, although there are college students and amateur musicians as performers, but the effect is still very good, and watching the performance in the open air is free of charge, no need to buy tickets. In addition, there will be performances in two indoor concert halls, one for classical music and the other for jazz. These two concert halls are performed by famous musicians. If you want to enjoy their performances, you need to buy extra tickets to enter. "

"So, I suggest we go to see rock and roll and electronic music on the open field." Andrew Belmont, by the way, suggested after his introduction.

"Why? Do you think they can't afford tickets? " Gera bea immediately disagreed. "I suggest we go to the concert hall and enjoy the performances of the masters. They are more professional and the environment there is better. I like to listen to music quietly. "

"Then you should go to a concert instead of a music festival." Andrew Belmont immediately retorted, "this kind of environment of the music festival should be a better atmosphere of hi with other audiences."

"Clara, where are we going?" Gera BEA, unable to convince Andrew Belmont, asked Clara Willa, who was beside her.

"I don't care. I can go anywhere." Clara Willa said with a smile, "but don't you think we should listen to our Chinese friends more? We should think about where they want to go

"You're right. We should consider the feelings of our new friends." Andrew Belmont and Gera bea nodded in agreement.

Andrew Belmont looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Xiao, where do you want to go? We'll listen to you."

Gera bea was afraid that the boy would be inclined to follow Andrew Belmont crazy, and immediately said, "and Fang and Pei, you three decide. The minority is subordinate to the majority."

"We listen to the boss." Fang still has a tacit understanding with PEI Minyi.

"Boss?" Andrew Behrman and Kira bea looked at Xiao Yao strangely, and then asked them, "is he your boss? I thought you were friends. " Clara Willa just told them that she would take some clients to the festival, but she didn't tell them about the relationship between them. The three men look almost the same age, and even Xiao Yao looks younger than the two girls. In addition to the conversation in the car just now, they did not expect that the boy was the boss of the two girls.

"We are friends, but they work for me, too." Xiao Yao said with a smile, "outside working hours, they are all my friends.""But it's not working time. We're here for fun. You don't have to listen to his boss." Keira bea said to Fang and Pei.

"But he knows music best of all three of us." Fang still said with a smile, "he is a professional musician. It doesn't matter what we listen to. We follow his preferences."

"Are you a professional musician? Singer or creator? " Clara Willa also looked at Xiao Yao in surprise and said, "I thought you were an actor trying to be a director." Clara Willa has seen Xiao Yao's short film. She knows that Xiao Yao is the director and star of the film. That's why she has such a judgment on Xiao Yao's career.

"Singers and creators are both," Xiao Yao said with a smile. "Of course, so are actors and directors. I like to try everything."

"You're so cool, man!" Andrew belmon patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder happily and said, "what instrument do you play, guitar?"

"Yes Xiao Yao nodded with a smile.

“yes！” Andrew Belmont gave a clench.

"But the first instrument I learned was the piano." Xiao Yao deliberately answered.

"So you chose to This time, I'm happy to change to Kira bea.

"In fact, I originally wanted to suggest that we should act separately and go to the venues we want to go to and enjoy the music we want to listen to. But I don't think it's good to act separately since we are together. Why don't we go to the open-air arena to watch rock music for an hour, and then go to the concert hall to listen to jazz for an hour, OK Xiao Yao suggested.

"OK, I agree!" Andrew Belmont took the lead.

"I agree." Kira bea has no objection.

After several people's discussion, it was close to 8 p.m. and the performances on various performance venues were about to start. Several people immediately went to the open-air performance platform on the green lawn of the Central Park.

There are many people standing in front of the open-air stage waiting for the start of the performance. A little behind, there are still some people packing camp tents and mats. Looking at this situation, it seems that many people are living in tents on the lawn of the park these days.

Six people crowded together to a place close to the stage, where they could see the scene clearly. At this time, the drums and other musical instruments on the stage have been set up, and several musicians are connecting the musical instruments and audio equipment. It is obvious that the performance will start soon.

After several young people on the stage had made preparations, a blonde man with a round inch head stood in front of the stage, took the microphone to say hello to the audience, and made a brief introduction to the band.

After listening to the introduction of the band, Xiao Yao found that it was a band he had never heard of. When he asked Andrew Belmont around him, he found that he had never heard of it and should not be famous in Europe. However, the audience's response to them was quite warm, and the volume of applause and cheers was not small.

After the introduction, the band called Black Jack began to perform. He performed three rock songs in a row, which were all songs Xiao Yao had never heard before, but Xiao Yao, like other audiences around him, raised his arms and yelled, and had a good time.

The rock band walked out after three songs, and another took over. It's also after I introduced myself, and then I started my own performance.

The new rock band may be a little more famous than the first one, because the audience cheered more than the first one. The band performed four songs in a row. From this arrangement, we can see that they seem to be better than the first band. Xiao Yao has never heard of the name of this band, but he is very familiar with two of the four songs they sing.

The first and last two songs performed by this band are original, which Xiao Yao has never heard. But the second song and the third song are the songs of Xiao Yao's "immortals". Xiao Yao and the band sang the song "impressions", which is the famous song of the band with the same name. Another song is called the Phoenix, which Xiao Yao wrote for Dean.

When Xiao Yao went to the United States last summer vacation, he met sun Tingting and was involved in the case. When he went to Keith Craig to introduce him to a lawyer, he promised Keith Craig to thank him with songs and wine. Later, after meeting Keith Craig, he felt that his song was not necessarily appreciated by other people's "daydream", so he said that his song as a thank-you was for "immortals". Although Xiao Yao later wrote a song "sugar" for them, Keith Craig didn't let go of that song for "immortals", so Xiao Yao wrote the Phoenix, which was also a previous life fall out boy, to Keith Craig.

In fact, this song was released in the form of a single as early as December last year. Xiao Yao has also received the notice from Keith Craig and members of the band "immortals". However, he has been busy all the time and has not paid much attention to the achievements of this song. Unexpectedly, in three months, the popularity of this song has been used by other bands to cover the music festival It's too late."Shaw, you haven't heard this song, have you?" Andrew acutely found the surprise expression of the band on stage when performing the Phoenix, so he kindly introduced to him, "this song is not the original song of that band. The previous "immortals" and this "the Phoenix" are songs of the American Band "immortals". Although it was a student band and only released these two songs, the two songs were excellent. The first song was performed live at the Academy Awards ceremony the year before last, and the second song was also listed in the top 10 billboards in the United States. They are now the idols of all the student bands in the world

"The idol of student bands all over the world, so powerful?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Yes," Andrew said excitedly as he saw that Xiao Yao was more interested. "It's not just a student band. Although all the members of my band are no longer students, our goal is to become the next" immortals "!"

"Come on! I wish you success Xiao Yao encouraged with a smile.

After watching about ten songs performed by three bands, almost an hour passed, and everyone was a little tired. Reminded by Kira BEA, we left the open-air performance venue and went to the concert hall in the park to listen to some soothing music and have a rest.

The performance in the open air is coherent, while the performance in the concert hall is divided into periods and times. An hour from 8:00 to 9:00 in the evening is for one musician to perform, and from 9:00 to 10:00 is for another musician to perform, that is, another performance, which is the case in both classical and jazz halls. It was less than nine o'clock when you left the stadium and arrived at the concert hall, and you could enjoy the second full performance.

At Xiao Yao's suggestion, everyone chose the concert hall for jazz performance. As we all know, you need to buy tickets when you enter the concert hall. After you arrive, you can go directly to the ticket office to buy tickets.

After several people arrived at the ticket office, they found that there was no staff in the ticket office, just a card "please ring the bell if you need" and a hand ring. It is estimated that the staff saw that there was no one to buy tickets at this time, so they ran to the back to be lazy.

"Hell! Is this discrimination against foreigners? Are you crazy about money? " Andrew's exaggeration burst out carelessly.

It turned out that although the ticket office was empty, there was a ticket price sign on the wall. The sign said, "Frenchman: 10 euro. 30 euros for foreigners. "

"Sorry, I didn't know there would be such a strange fare." Clara Willa embarrassed to Xiao Yao three humanity, "Music Festival is I invite you to come, the fare difference I supply you?"