Sunny-Side Up's Gigs

Sunny-Side Up, a brand new group of local musicians who love classic rock, R & B and pop music is going to make some appearances to play acoustic stuff at the following venues:

1. Saturday, 12th February (corrected) at Laugh-la from 5:00 p.m.

(for more info, go to Otokachi)

2. Saturday, 19th February at Rancho El Paso (probably from 7:00 p.m.)

(more info. to be announced later in this blog)

The artists include (photo from left to right) : Chiba-Chiba (guitars, vo., perc.), Motti (vo.), ken (piano, vo.), Yohei (guitars, vo.).

Well, how come it's Sunny-Side Up?

一昔前のR & B、ロックやポップミュージックを愛する？地元ミュージシャンが集まった新ユニットでアコースティック・ライブをやりま〜す。

1) （訂正▶）2/12（土）開演17:00 ラフラ

（くわしくはオトカチで）

2) 2/19（土）開演たぶん19:00 ランチョ・エルパソ

（くわしくは後日このブログでお知らせ）

メンバー（写真左から）は上記の通り。

でもなんで「目玉焼き」？

Loungeful of Audience

Daichi & ken had a pretty good "mini" concert in the lounge of Obihiro Museum of Art, in the "rallentando" darkening blue after dusk embracing the venue. I couldn't even help but staring up at the sky through the windows behind us sometimes while I was playing.

Although I couldn't advertise this event very well, much more people than expected, probably more than 140!, showed up to see us in spite of the congested parking lot and icy road up to the museum.

I would like to thank all of them and those who supported us for this concert.

帯広美術館のラウンジでゆっくりと暮れて行く青い光に包まれながら、Daichi & kenでちょっとしたミニコンサートができた。演奏中にもステージ後ろの窓から外の空へ何度も目をやってしまった。

このイベントの広告は充分できなかったけれど、予想以上に多くの人たち（きっと140名以上）に来ていただいた。いっぱいの駐車場とつるつるの道路にもかかわらず。

お越しのみなさま、そしてイベントを支えてくださった方々に、あらためて感謝。

(photo by TN)

Live Performance at Art Museum

Daichi Yoshino and I have been invited by Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art to perform in its entrance hall on Saturday, the 29th of January. This is going to be our first appearance at the local museum which is located on a hill of grand Obihiro Green Park.

We are going to be performing from 4:30 p.m., when twilight blue probably begins to prevail the wooded patio which you can see through the tall floor-to-ceiling windows in the background of our stage. Please look forward to seeing how we fill the quiet venue with our music. No charge for our concert (free!).

To download this photo flier, click here.

To download detailed fliers from the museum (Japanese), click here.

Coincidentally, there is an impressive exhibition of landscape pictures "Soaked in Landscape. Play with Nature." in cooperation with the Museum of Art in Hakodate, which is Daichi's hometown, also my second hometown. I hope you will enjoy it as well. For details check out the museum's website.

1/29（土）北海道立帯広美術館のロビーで吉野大地と「ミュージアム・コンサート」を行います。広大な帯広グリーンパーク内の丘の上にある同美術館での出演は初。

午後4:30からのライブで、ちょうどステージの背景の窓一面に広がる中庭の林が黄昏の青色に染まり始まるころ。静かな会場は、私たちの音楽でいっぱいにするとどうなるのやら。入場料は無料。

→プリント用ミニフライヤーはこちらから

→美術館発行の詳しいチラシはこちらから

奇しくも、当日は道立函館美術館の「コラボ」による風景画展「風景に、浸る。自然と、遊ぶ。」も開催中。こちらも楽しめそう。函館は大地さんの出身地、かつ私の第二の故郷。（詳しくは美術館のウェブサイトをどうぞ。）

Obihiro Symphony Orchestra: Pretty Good!

It was my second time to enjoy this orchestra's performance this year. Such an excellent local orchestra which can hold concerts several times a year should be appreciated more.  Especially the rich tone of the strings section is superb.

Featured today were a young conductor H. Matsumoto and an Obihiro-born pianist Yuriko Ito who played Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, as if she had been opening a jewel box on the stage. The orchestra also performed Tchaikovski's Symphony No. 5 in E minor, another Russian standard.

The ticket prices are 1,000 and 2,000 yen. How could you complain?

今年2回目の帯広交響楽団のコンサート。年に数回コンサートを開催できる優秀な地方オーケストラはもっと注目されてもいい。特に弦楽器群のリッチな響きはすばらしい。

今日の曲目は、ラフマニノフのピアノ協奏曲2番、指揮は松本宏康に帯広生まれのピアニスト伊藤夢里子の宝石箱を広げたような表情豊かな演奏。そしてもう一つ、ロシア音楽定番チャイコフスキーの交響曲第5番。

チケットのお値段は1,000円と2,000円。大満足。

(Sorry about the poor quality of my Keitai photo.)