Summer concerts pull crowds to French wine country

Fresh air, fine wine and world-class performers are pulling the crowds to Bordeaux's wine country for an ever-rising number of summer jazz and classical concerts in the French region.

"It's a trend, and it works. It attracts people who are not the usual jazz music audience," the pianist Francois Faure said as he stepped off stage at the Saint Emilion Jazz festival last week.

"They are not so much jazz fans as wine fans" who come to taste the music and the wine country setting as well as the wine.

The organiser of the event, one of half a dozen packing the summer schedule in and...

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