The band playing is called Spoon-de-Chop, they have been performing at Yong Kang Park for the past 8 years, always on Saturday nights... the band is very international, comprising Taiwanese, Japanese, an American and a Macedonian... they play a diversity of music as well, from Chinese songs to Japanese songs to Taiwanese songs, even solo performances in English and Macedonian... the lead singer is Japanese and really talented; he plays the harmonica, guitar and San Xian (a three-stringed instrument).. what's really cool about them though, is that they play for beer and not for money :) talk about combining passions for music and booze...
I sat there to watch and listen them play for almost 1.5 hours, along with quite a number of other residents...Here's a clip of them performing the very well-known Suki Yaki (上を向いて歩こう)
and here performing Grandfather's Clock in Japanese (大きな古時), a really beautiful children's song (google the lyrics if you are interested) which I learnt in music class in primary school
More clips that I recorded can be found here:
Folky Japanese song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BwFcLNsxUM
Chinese song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Y0M52ZDhc
Shima Uta 島唄 (yes the AIESEC dance song): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk8NNojfvqg
Sanshin no Hana 三線の花: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hwg6m7ptSs
To find out when they are next performing, check http://spoondechop.blogspot.com/
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