Blog 7 Obzeet(2)

I have been to Obzeet a couple more times since the last blog post and things are starting to come along. As I said before, Obzeet is South African for the word groovy, and the music culture is just that: groovy. The musicians are very laid back and have fun with the audience. One musician interacts with the audience by laying out a song sheet of which the audience can choose which song they want to hear next. (The list is obviously limited to the songs that he knows how to play.) I have seen two other artists, one which plays various old classic rock songs, and the other is a pair who plays a harmonica and acoustic guitar, putting them into an interesting mix of blues-like jazz. The weather is cold enough to where the musicians no longer play outside on the patio, but they are now inside; the restaurant has a store attached to the side of it, and the musicians play here, so they are more of a background ambiance than before where they were center stage on the patio. I have been talking to one of the waitresses that work there and have found out some interesting facts about the restaurant, which will go into my paper. Overall, I haven’t talked to the musicians themselves yet, but it is going pretty smoothly. The bands do covers of various other bands, with possibly one or two original songs put in the mix as well, so the music culture is very diverse and different from most I have seen before.