Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Busking in Downtown




To promote Ben & Konomi's Summer Solstice Eco Festival 2010 for the Organic Movement, 13 artists who are appearing in the festival showed up in downtown Obihiro last Sunday. It was a beautiful sunny day, but if it had not been a sports day for school kids in the area, we could have seen more people walking around though. It was totally not like Shibuya or Yokohama.
I would like to say thanks to all the dedicated musicians who joined together to enjoy performing outdoors.
Participated are: Trevor (vocal, guitar & mandolin), Hiroshi (vocal & guitar), Choppa (ukulele), Charles (accordion), Maud (vocal & accordion), Ai (vocal), Yoichi (guitar), Ako (percussion), Yuma (vocal & flute), Toshimitsu (percussion), Keiichiro (guitar), Maa-kun (percussion) & Shinya (special appearance).
We are going to have a fabulous music festival!
BenとKonomiの夏至オーガニックフェスティバル2010のプロモーションのために、同フェスティバルに出場するアーチストが13名集まって、帯広中心部でストリートライブを敢行。
晴天に恵まれたけれど、運動会の日だったために人通りもまばら。渋谷
や横浜のようにはいかん。
屋外ライブに参加してくれたすばらしいミュージシャンたちに「ありがとう」。(出演者は上記)
いけてるミュージックフェスティバルにしたいものだ。
(musicians photo by TH)

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Nice Ride through Forest


Yeah, Monday was a perfect day for riding through "Obihiro's Forest." The bikers & walkers' path is also a perfect shortcut without traffic lights or any other obstructions up to almost halfway to the destination. It normally takes about 15 minutes by car, but it takes me exactly the same by bicycle, then why go by car?
「帯広の森」を走るのにパーフェクトな日和。自転車歩行者遊歩道はもちろん信号も障害もなく、目的地までの半分くらいの地点まで完璧なショートカット。通常クルマで約15分のルートが自転車でも全く同じ。自転車で充分か?