Golden Week! - Day Five & Six: Takatsuki Jazz Festival

Went to Takatsuki for a Jazz Festival. My fellow teacher Lamika lives there, so I stayed with her. I met many awesome people (Matt, the former teacher at Lamika's school, from Australia; Dane from Australia; Luke, Lamika's coworker; Hiroko and Tomiko, and other's I can remember!).

This was the second band. The singer saw the group of us gaijins in the back of the crowd, and said something into the mic that made everyone turn around and look at us. I'm guessing something like, "Hey, look at all the gaijins!".

Either way, she said, "My name is Lucy I'm from New Orleans!". I don't think I believe her. She tried to stick the mic in Luke's face to get him to sing, but he was too embarassed.














The next venue was on the roof of a department store. Pretty random. Picture One - L to R: Hiroko, Luke, Matt, Lamika. Picture Two - The band that was playing on the roof. Picture Three - Hiroko and Matt. Picture Four - Dane














































Next bar! This poor woman... she could not sing. She tried very hard, however.
























Day Two! Monday, Lamika and I went to JK Cafe to listen to a band that's style was simply "Black". Not "Jazz", or "Etc." like some others, just.... "Black". Interesting. They were AWESOME! The singer was from the States, but the pianist, bass player and drummer were all Japanese. Here is a video of him singing a great blues song:

And finally... two cute boys who made friends with us in one of the bars. I just love his facial expression!