Thursday, June 05, 2008

A trip to Sawara, and lots of TenGooz practice

Sawara,in Chiba Prefecture is always a great place to visit, with its old shops, willow lined river, sake breweries and Katori Grand Shrine.The first week in June is always extra-special as the irises are in bloom.
We drove to the aquatic plant park, a few kilometers from the old town and were disappointed to find that only a small portion of the flowers were blossoming. We could still enjoy watching a traditional, pole-propelled boat loaded with musicians, cranking out the Sawara-Bayashi,which is the towns festival music.
We have started some serious rehearsing and were together until 11pm last night getting ready for this Saturdays Gig. Thomas Mayers will be playing with us and he has been putting in extra effort learning all our old material.

Hope to see you there this weekend

Avi Landau

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