oh its a long story,...
short version is, i went through a bad break up, decided to flee for a few weeks across the big water, and paris was the worst idea i had,....after the first day walkin around the city, i spent the rest of the week holed up in the bath tub of my hotel drinking booze i couldnt pronounce, eating croissants, and reading french vouge

Lonely and heartbroken in paris still sounds very romantic to me. I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Maybe when you go can ride a French mechanical bull and actually stay on this time.

ha,...whos the ass whole now,...

and it was all very,...sureal when i was there,....almost like i was outside of my body,.....it rained alot,...

OH you know what was cool though? the bathroom in my hotel opened up onto this nice little balcony, so even though i didnt leave, i could still hear the city below me,.....

That sounds beautiful. It really does. The perfect scenario to cleanse your wounds....
OK, I'M GOING TO BED!!!!!!(that's me talking to myself very loudly)
thanks 4 tha' picture sugarplumb!

au revoir

adeiu, adeiu parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say goodnight till' it be morrow

i can't see it would be less common than anywhere else. is like tv country crap. or traditional roots music. i know quite a few people who grew up in french canadian areas who've gone to france to play traditional stuff. it's not quite country music but from a layman's perspective, it's acoustic guitars and fiddles so it's 'country' and from what i hear the people over there go NUTS for it hehehe.

but from the look of that site it's going to be a typical north american country fest.

mmmm,....its not tv country crap,....

this is my friend that is playing it this year,....
YouTube - Brandon Rhyder-Movin' Too Fast

and last year stoney larue played,.....who i'm a HUGE HUGE HUGE fan of,....
YouTube - Stoney LaRue - Solid Gone - Craponne, FRANCE, 2007
YouTube - Stoney Larue - Blind Man
YouTube - Ophelia
(my favorite is when they do ophelia, which they dont do very much anymore,.....)

and bonnie bishop will be there
YouTube - Bonnie Bishop Live At The Bugle Boy
YouTube - Bonnie Bishop Live At The Bugle Boy 2

uhhh and then there's asleep at the wheel,...though i cant imagine what it was like with bob wills,.....god bless bob wills
YouTube - Asleep at the Wheel - Faded Love

This would be much cooler if this was Balkan music.

i didn't necessarily mean tv country when i said north american. from the videos you linked i get the impression it'll be like a bluegrass festival (ie very traditional) but with only about 10% of the pep. if it's a free trip and you're thing then i'd say pack your bags and remember that 'baiser' means kiss in the dictionary but feck in france.