It was Elvis Costello and the Imposters with Allen Toussaint last night at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. We received free tickets from work, hence decided to go for it. I am not a big fan of Costello; didn’t even know many songs of him other than “Monkey Man”. It turned out to be a very enjoyable concert. It was good music eventhough it was all new and we were not familiar with it. Rock’n’roll with a jazz twist. Allen Toussaint is from New Orleans and played great jazz piano.

Before the concert, we went to eat dinner at Ann Arbor’s newest Japanese restaurant, “Cherry Blossoms”. They still don’t have their liquor license. The food was very good and didn’t need any sake to wash it down. But, still we’ll have to try it again when they get their license. On the next table sat an old couple celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. The man was in the Air Force stationed in Vietnam where he met his wife in the 60’s.