Can you get away with anything when you’re an international star? When is a limit crossed? Here are some interesting anecdotes about the headliners of the Colmar Wine Fair.
Star equals whim? When you’ve seen 727 of them since the beginning of the festival, it’s certain that the teams have seen some green and unripe ones. But is it obligatory, Claude Lebourgeois? …
Isabelle Witec supervises the stars, a real mission… And sometimes, it’s hard. Among those who never want to come, eh Francis? Good memories for Frank Michael, drowned in the feminine underwear thrown from the audience, the six hours of Jacques Higelin’s concert. He played until 2 a.m. instead of 11 p.m. as planned. Impossible to stop it: almost 6 hours of concert, the audience was delighted! Francis Lalanne also did well, but with only 4 or 5 hours of show. Two unrivaled records.
Others are more concise, like Charles Aznavour… In terms of alcohol, the Irish punk group the Pogues did well, but not as much as this singer whose name we will not mention who downed 30 cans of beer during his 90 minutes on scene. If they were 33cl, that would still be 9.9 liters, more than a liter every ten minutes.
There are the stage beasts: Claude François who warms up the audience, shirtless on stage in 74. Then, there are the cultured ones, too, who go sightseeing: Robert Plant, the former singer of Led Zeppelin loves museums , he fell in love with the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Unterlinden Museum.
The evenings with Johnny are long, very long. An after-concert had ended at dawn at 5 or 6 a.m., he was trimming the fat with the staff of the Auberge de l’Ill in Illhaeusern. The public responds well: in the crowd, a pair of 3 meter scissors for Antoine, “my mother told me Antoine get your hair cut“, the audience who climbs the walls of the theater and poses in delicate positions, stratospheric caterpillars at the cabaret. Far from the whims, others often return, they are appreciated and appreciate Colmar.
In your opinion, who came to play the most at the Wine Fair? Answer in the next episode.
Alsace Wine Fair 2009 – Aznavour
Alsace Wine Fair 2018 – Francis Cabrel
This series was produced in partnership with theNational Audiovisual Institute and with TV7 Colmar.
The Alsace Wine Fair website.
Thanks to the France Bleu Alsace/Elsass technical team for their involvement.
