good timing.
It’s the long weekend here in B.C. and it was probably the best long weekend to date, as far as I can remember! Rob and I went to the Powell Street Festival, which is an annual celebration of Japanese arts and culture. Instead of going to the fireworks (which I never go to anyway, but that’s a different story), we headed out to see Shugo Tokumaru!! It was really amazing and adorable and intimate (about 75 people?) and just as I had expected it to be. He had Yumiko (who has a separate project called Meso Meso) play the accordion and toys (wind up birds, kazoos, bird flutes, bells, whistles, triangles, xylophones). It was awesome.
The following day we went back to the Festival (Rob really wanted to eat his favourite dessert, imagawayaki, a red bean pancake), this time with Kristina in tow to see him play again, in a festival setting. I am pretty sure he won a lot of hearts yesterday. We met Ian, who will be putting out Shugo’s record in North America, and actually met and hung out with Shugo and Yumiko for an hour or so. I really need to review my Japanese, that’s all I have to say. I apologize to them for butchering their beautiful language.
Yesterday made me love the city that I live in, even though it’s “No Fun”.
I’ve been in another place lately (school, life, oh I got a job!) so I will be posting the questions received very soon! I apologize. BUT – Shugo will be coming back to North America, playing a few shows in September, and I highly recommend you check him out. Ian told us that the label is trying to get members of Beirut and The National to back him up this time – which would be absolutely brilliant!!!
