Chindonya with Saxophone in Utsunomiya

Yesterday I met a friend in Utsunomiya, a city regionally famous for its gyoza and its jazz. (It's the hometown of Sadao Watanabe and it was the home base of a division deployed to China during Japan's more warlike days.) It's awfully hard to find much gyoza or jazz in Utsunomiya before the sun goes down, but we did come across a chindonya troupe that included a saxophonist who did a great job of imparting a Japanese feel to her playing.