Amu Plaza has been doing a horrible job of holding live music in front of the main train station for the holidays over the last couple of years. This year, things were even more scaled-back because of the pandemic. They only had performances on a tiny, unlit stage on Sunday, Dec. 20th. The only group I had any interest in was my favorite Japanese Ska band, Bon DX. Even they were scaled-down, with just the three members: Bon on vocals and acoustic guitar, Sada on sax, and Riko, a new woman on hand drums (apparently she's a professional taiko drummer, and is going to move elsewhere soon to coach taiko professionally).
It was a fairly subdued set, running 40 minutes, but with none of the higher-energy songs that I really like.
Still, it was nice to see them again, after nearly a 1-year hiatus.
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