I’ll be playing at two events this weekend, the “June-i.ro.do.ri” music festival in Alice’s Garden on Saturday, and the “Senda-machi Wasshoi Festival & Flea Market” on Sunday. Both are outdoor events, and today I’ve begun to worry a bit about the weather. A typhoon is coming up from the south, and it appears as if it will be here just in time for the weekend.

I’ve also been asked to perform at the annual Sundance Beach Party held on one of the islands in the Seto Inland Sea, just south of Hiroshima City. Right now the only information I’ve heard is “through the grapevine”, so hopefully I’ll be able to get some more details from the organizer before long.

I’ve been exchanging email recently with a Japanese musician named Yoshiharu. He plays an instrument called the Koyabu-Board, which appears to me to be a derivative of the Chapman Stick. Yoshiharu plans on spending some time in Hiroshima during his tour of Japan in July, and we are planning to meet. I look forward to hearing his music, as well as getting my first look at a Koyabu-Board.