From Pau airport to Marciac, a small village of 1200 inhabitants in the Gers, "
it takes 75 minutes to travel
". At the wheel of her minibus, Isabelle spins along the small hilly roads, behind the convoy carrying Kimberose and her musicians. The soul singer was the star of the opening of the Marciac Jazz Festival on Saturday July 24th. At the window, fields of sunflowers succeed corn fields. Here and there, you can see Mirandaises, cows recognizable by their eyes made up of kohl, a race threatened with extinction which comes back to life in the south of the Gers. A psychologist in Toulouse, Isabelle has been a volunteer driver for the festival1 for twenty years. “
This 43rd edition is very different,”
she warns, making a series of turns on the hillsides.
The atmosphere is still so nice but it is much less crowded.
In the main square, there are not the stalls of shops a little cool and the usual restaurants.
For now, it's calm.
We hope that word of mouth
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