Short but sweet

Mitsukaze was having a busy day. He had played at Field of Heaven just a couple of hours earlier along with Green Massive, but here at the Busker Stop he was alone with just his guitar, a harmonica, and plenty of good humor and sweet songs.

The rain just started pouring down as he rolled his r’s in his first song, and crowd waiting for him was small, but dedicated. They danced in time with his marching-in-one-spot groove to old folk songs, both Japanese and English.

Feeling sorry for us punters dancing in the downpour, he hopped off stage and danced in the mud with the rest of us for a bit. Which was harder on him than us, because we at least had raingear on. He did a killer version of Boney M’s Rivers of Babylon and had people linking arms and singing every line of each song by the end of the set.

As he walked back on stage, he shouted, “One love, one nation!” over and over again with a big smile on his face, and expressed his gratitude to everyone sticking it out in the rain. From the loud applause he received I’m pretty sure the feeling was mutual.