A world of sounds

A recent festival highlights world music's growing popularity among Chinese. Zhang Zefeng reports.

Two giant stages stand in the center of a 6,670-hectare orchard of blooming pear trees. Performers clad in ethnic attire sing and dance under colorful lights.

This is a scene from the Water and Pear Blossoms World Music Festival in Shandong province's Yangxin county from April 5 to 7. Twenty-six bands from nine countries and regions performed.