The Art Blakey festival happens this Sunday once again at the versatile Navaro live house. It’s an all day event featuring some of Kumamoto’s most popular bands like Do It Science(art/indie rock)to the Spazzmatics(Black Flag influenced Japanese punk). There are also several out of town bands or artists and one of my faves is Marron. Marron hails from Kyoto and plays a mixture of art flavored King Crimson progressive rock to Santana Latin flavored grooves.I gotta work all day and so I will miss this event. By the way the Acid Mothers were pretty good but I could hardly enjoy them because I messed up leg(Bonenkai shenanigans)!http://navaro.info/home/schedule/1223sun-art-blakey-fes/ Jay Onyskin