Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.islandhosting.com!news.islandhosting.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:10:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:09:17 -0700 From: Dan Rempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Okinawan Music Festivals References: <2d4b1c5e5cd7431fe91d8b5e592f510d@grapevine.islandnet.com> <1hucajk.tkvlha1sn1vzsN%al@privacy.ne.jp> <2007032009132933808-xxx@yyyzzz> <2007032019151835001-xxx@yyyzzz> In-Reply-To: <2007032019151835001-xxx@yyyzzz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: Organization is overrated Message-ID: <0c0af874076f60b49b01a7afe52ae954@grapevine.islandnet.com> X-Tracking: 46014A9DF938642BED2F6D06AC783668AD643168AC6A3777A57233 X-Report-Abuse-To: news@islandnet.com X-NNRP-Cache: Grapevine 2.0 -- http://grapevine.islandnet.com/ Lines: 51 NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.175.106.126 X-Trace: sv3-6bujn/RP5ZIoKKawZG/ey75MS9kjZrmg7VtaLtgPeBWJaV8aho1sQKCI6QEDXpk87ho2e3Y8CTemCez!yu931Z0htvLsPpLwLx3tmugsbNS4t64JelI1Z2q+uzUsNcDbEDYx8xEfxhVoQBCdGnmATmmAeuzr!AA2gdrQxQFAQrF/eM7JQeeRBxpRVLevBAh1j6f4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@islandnet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@islandhosting.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:165384 gtr wrote: > On 2007-03-20 16:46:15 -0700, Dan Rempel said: > >> gtr wrote: >>> On 2007-03-20 07:24:34 -0700, Dan Rempel said: >>> >>>> Al wrote: >>>>> Dan Rempel wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> ISTR that some of you guys live in, around, and/or on Okinawa; do you >>>>>> have any information on upcoming music festivals, shows, and the >>>>>> like? >>>>> >>>>> Still planning to go to Iriomote Island end of this month? >>>> >>>> Just got back, twas great. Found plenty of music there, and intend to >>>> return next year. You guys were keeping this place a secret, weren't >>>> you? >>> >>> Okinawan music, I assume. Modern or more tradtional or what? I ran >>> into a sake-bar in Kyoto where an Israeli guy was a real enthusiast for >>> Okinawan music and was trying to hip us to as much of that as the sake. >>> >>> I don't suppose anybody knows the Israeli-owned Sake bar in Kyoto? I >>> tried to find it last November but couldn't remember where the hell >>> it was. >> >> More-or-less traditional Okinawan sanshin stuff, although my >> understanding is even amongst the old-timers 'tradition' is a very >> flexible term. > > That's true from the little I know. Either the oldsters are very > flexible and apparently the up-and-comers give a lot of payback to > traditions. The little I heard was very interesting. One of the first songs I heard was an Orion Beer song, played on a plastic 三線 by an incredibly genki 30-some-odd female diving instructor who's hoping to become an "沖縄ネーネー"; gotta be some kind of definition of eclectic. > Any names to recommend? The only names I know are the more popular ones like ネーネーズ and Shikichi Kina; the people I actually heard were all locals. Dan -- "Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it." -- Dave Barry