Entertaining Children

   Chapter 500 Discrimination against foreigners

  At seven o'clock in the evening, Clara Vera appeared at the door of the hotel on time. Because she asked Fang in advance about the number of people who are still going to the music festival, Clara did not drive her own car to pick up the plane from the airport this time, but instead drove a seven-seater SUV.

  After the three people got on the car, Xiao Yao found that besides Clara Vera, there were two young men, one man and one woman, sitting in the driving and co-pilot seats. After some introduction, Xiao Yao and the others knew that the two of them were indeed the friends Clara Vera mentioned on the phone to go to the music festival together. The black-haired girl in the co-pilot position is called Kira Bea. She is Clara Vera's classmate at the Clermont Higher Art School. She studies fine art and is good at oil painting. The blond boy in the driving seat is Clara Vera’s neighbor, named Andrew Belmont, who is a guitarist in the band.

The venue of the International Jazz Festival is in a park in the city, not far from the hotel where Xiao Yao and the others stayed, but because there was a music festival before and a film festival after, many people flocked during this time. Arriving here, the city became extremely crowded. This time was the time for the last festival to be held. Many people set off to the park where the festival was held, and the traffic in the city was also very congested. Within a distance of less than 20 kilometers, a few people spent more than half an hour on the road.

  Fortunately, the few people in the car are similar in age, and they are all studying and working in art-related industries. Whether it is art, performance or music, Xiao Yao can talk about it. Fang still worked with Pei Minyi as Xiao Yao’s assistant for such a long time. Under Xiao Yao’s influence, he could at least talk about music. Therefore, after more than half an hour’s drive on this road, several people in the car were also quick. Got acquainted.

  Six people parked their cars in a nearby parking lot. When they walked into the park, the performance had not yet started, but there were already a lot of music lovers in the park.

  Clermont Ferrand’s current international jazz festival is a music festival with a long history in the world. It was originally held in the 1960s in this world. The original venue was Belfort, France. After decades of development, it has become a tour of several cities in France. In the form of music, it has also changed from a pure jazz performance at the beginning to a jazz-based comprehensive music festival, which also includes folk, classical, rock and experimental music.

"Tonight's performance has three performance venues." After entering the park, Andrew Belmont also enthusiastically introduced Xiao Yao to the three people, "One is an open-air performance venue, mainly performing rock music and electronic music. These are. The performers are not necessarily well-known bands or singers. Although there are college students and amateur musicians as performers, the effect is still very good, and watching the performances on the open-air venue is free, no need to buy Tickets. In addition, there are two chamber concert halls that will also have performances, one for classical music and the other for jazz. The performances in these two concert halls are more famous musicians. If you want to appreciate their performances, you need extra Buy tickets to get in."

   "So, I suggest that we go to see rock music and electronic music on the open field." After Andrew Belmont introduced, he proposed to everyone by the way.

"Why? Do you think Xiao and the others can't afford tickets?" Kira Bea immediately put forward a different opinion, "I suggest that we go to the concert hall and enjoy the performances of the masters. They are more professional, and The environment there is also better. I like to listen to music quietly."

  "Then you should go to the concert, not to the music festival." Andrew Belmont immediately retorted, "The environment of the music festival should be a good atmosphere with other audiences."

   "Klara, you said, where are we going?" Kira Baya saw that Andrew Belmont could not be convinced, so she asked Clara Vera next to her.

   "I don't care, I can go anywhere." Clara Vera smiled, "But don't you think we should listen to the opinions of our Chinese friends? We should consider where they want to go."

   "You are right, we should consider the feelings of our new friends." Andrew Belmont and Kira Bea nodded in agreement.

  Andrew Belmont looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Xiao, tell me where you want to go, we listen to you."

  Kira Bea was afraid that Xiaoyao, a boy, would tend to go crazy with Andrew Belmont, and immediately continued: "There are also Fang and Pei, the three of you will decide. The minority obeys the majority."

   "We listen to the boss." Fang still said with Pei Minyi very tacitly.

"Boss?" Andrew Belmont and Kira Bea looked at Xiao Yao strangely, and then asked them, "He is your boss? I thought you were friends." Clara Vera was just talking to They said that they would take a few customers who came to the film festival to the music festival, but they did not introduce the relationship between the three. The three of them seemed to be about the same age, even Xiao Yao seemed to be younger than the two girls. Coupled with the conversation in the car just now, they never thought that the boy was the boss of the two girls.

   "We are indeed friends, but they also work for me." Xiao Yao smiled and said, "Out of working hours, they are all my friends."

   "But it's not working hours. We are here to play. You don't need to listen to his boss." Kira Bea said to the two parties and Pei Minyi again.

  "But he is the one who knows music best among the three of us." Fang still smiled and said, "He is a professional musician. It doesn't matter what we listen to, we follow his preferences."

"Are you a professional musician? A singer or a composer?" Clara Vera also looked at Xiao Yao in surprise, "I thought you were an actor trying to be a director." Clara Vera had seen Xiao Yao. The short film contested by Yao knew that the director and starring role of that short film were Xiao Yao, so that's why he had such a judgment on Xiao Yao's career.

   "Singer and creator are both," Xiao Yao smiled, "Of course the actors and directors are also, I want to try everything."

   "You are so cool, buddy!" Andrew Belmont happily patted Xiao Yao on the shoulder and said, "Do you know how to play a musical instrument, guitar?"

   "Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded with a smile.

   "Yes!" Andrew Belmont cried out with a fist.

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

   "So you choose to go...?" This time, happily changed to Kira Bea.

"In fact, I originally wanted to suggest that everyone act separately and go to the venues they want to go to enjoy the music they want to listen to. But I think since they are here together, it is not good to act separately. Why not, let's go to the open air performance first Watch the rock music for an hour in the venue, and then go to the concert hall to listen to jazz for an hour, okay?" Xiao Yao suggested.

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

   "I agree too." Kira Bea also had no objection.

  A few people discussed it, and the time was close to 8 o'clock in the evening. The performances on the various performance venues were about to begin, and the few people immediately went to the open-air performance platform on the green lawn of the park central field.

  There are already many people standing in front of the open-air performance stage, waiting for the start of the performance. A little bit further back, you can see some people packing up camping tents and mats. Looking at this situation, it seems that many people have been living in tents on the lawn in the park these days.

  The six people worked together to squeeze to a place closer to the performance stage among the audience. In this place, the scene on the performance stage can be seen more clearly. At this time, the drums and other musical instruments on the stage have been set up. Several musicians are connecting musical instruments and audio equipment. Obviously, the performance is about to begin.

After a few young people on the stage made preparations, a blond man with a round head stood in front of the stage and greeted the audience under the stage loudly with a microphone, doing something simple Introduction of the band.

After listening to the introduction of the band, Xiao Yao found that it was a band that he had never heard of. He asked Andrew Belmont beside him, and found that he hadn’t heard of it either. He should have no reputation in Europe, but the audience in the audience They responded enthusiastically to them, and the volume of applause and cheers was not low.

After the introduction of   , the band called Black Jack began to perform. He performed three rock songs in a row, all of which Xiao Yao hadn't heard before, but Xiao Yao still held up his arms and yelled like other audiences around him, playing quite happily.

  The rock band left after performing three songs, and another band took over. I also introduced myself, and then started my own performance.

  This new rock band may be slightly more famous than the first one, because the cheers of the audience are obviously bigger than when the first band was on stage. This band performed four songs in a row. From this arrangement, it can be seen that they seem to be better than the first band. The name of this band, Xiao Yao, has never been heard before, but Xiao Yao is very familiar with two of the four songs they sang.

  The first and last two songs of this band’s performance are their own originals, which Xiao Yao has never heard. But the second and third songs are all songs by Xiao Yao's "Immortals" band. A song "IMMORTALS" was sung by Xiao Yao and the band. It is the band's famous song of the same name. Another song is called "ThePhoenix", which is also a song written by Xiao Yao for Dean and the others.

  When Xiaoyao went to the United States last summer, he encountered Sun Tingting and got involved in the case. When he asked Keith Craig to help him introduce a lawyer, he quickly agreed to Keith Craig with songs and wine as a thank you. Later, after meeting Keith Craig, I felt that my song "Daydream" might not be appreciated by others, so I said that the song I thanked him was for "Immortals". Although Xiao Yao still wrote them "sugar" later, Keith Craig did not let go of the song for "Immortals", so Xiao Yao put this song "ThePhoenix" which is also the same as the previous FallOutBoy. Wrote it to Keith Craig.

This song was actually released as a single as early as December last year. Xiao Yao also received notifications from Keith Craig and members of the "Immortals" band, but he has been busy. He didn't pay much attention to the performance of this song. He didn't expect that in three months, the popularity of this song would have reached the point where it was used by other bands to cover it at the festival.

"Xiao, haven't you heard this song?" Andrew keenly noticed the surprised expression on stage when the band performed "ThePhoenix", so he kindly introduced him, "This song is not that band." The original song. The previous "IMMORTALS" and this "ThePhoenix" are both songs by the American band "Immortals". Although it was a student band, only these two songs were released, but they are these two songs. The songs are very good. The first song was performed live at the Oscars the year before, and the second song was also on the top ten of the billboard in the United States. They are now the idols of all student bands in the world!"

   "Idols of student bands all over the world, are they so powerful?" Xiao Yao asked.

"Yes," Andrew saw that Xiao Yao was interested, he became more interested, and went on excitedly, "It's not just a student band. Although the members of this band are no longer students, our goal is to become the next one." Immortals"!"

   "Come on! I wish you success!" Xiao Yao smiled and encouraged.

  I watched three bands perform about ten songs, and almost an hour passed. Everyone was a little tired from shouting and dancing. At Kira Bea’s reminder, everyone left the open-air performance venue and went to the concert hall in the park, ready to listen to some soothing music, and take a break by the way.

  The performances in the open space are coherent, while the performances in the concert hall are divided into time periods and sessions. The hour from 8 to 9 in the evening is performed by a musician, and from 9 to 10 in the evening, another musician will perform, which is another performance, both in the classical concert hall and the jazz concert hall. When everyone left the open-air arena and arrived at the concert hall, it was less than nine o'clock, just in time to enjoy the second full performance.

  At Xiao Yao’s suggestion, everyone chose a concert hall where jazz music was performed. Everyone already knows that you need to buy a ticket to enter the concert hall. After arriving, they walked directly to the ticket office to buy a ticket.

  A few people arrived at the ticket office and found that there was no staff in the ticket office, just a "need to ring the bell" card and a hand ringing bell. It is estimated that the staff saw that no one bought tickets at this time, so they ran behind to be lazy.

   "Damn! Is this the **** discriminating against foreigners? Are you crazy about money?" Andrew exaggerated, and even the swearing burst out accidentally.

  It turned out that although there was no one at the ticket office, there was a fare sign hung on the wall. The sign read strangely: "French: 10 Euros. Foreigners 30 Euros."

   "Sorry, I didn't know that there would be such a strange fare." Clara Vera said embarrassedly to the three Xiao Yao, "I invited you to the music festival. I will make up for the difference in fare?"

  (End of this chapter)