Konkani Folk Music Group formed in Perth, Western Australia.

Konkani Folk Song and Dance Group under the musical direction of Sardar Correia." The name "OZ-GOA-MOG stands for our land of OZ, GOA for Goans of   Australia, And MOG means love in Konkani and stands for Musicians of Goa who seek to express their love of their land of origin and love for the people in their land of adoption by a presentation of Konkani Folk songs and Dances. These songs and dances span 500 years of our social history from the 12th century to the 21st. They also seek to share their multilingual approach to Melody and Harmony, and Rhythm in their eclecticism. According to Prof. Michael Martins "The Mando is the finest of Goa's cultural creations and a synthesis of the manifold types of Goan Song. A knowledge of it gives one a clear view of a millennial tradition now languishing among Goa's hills in the Konkan strip of India's west coast and also awakens one to an awareness of a vaster but equally evanescent body of song in the great subcontinent beyond."

This presentation, of Guitars (Sardar Correia, Bernard De Sa, & Ashley Almeida), The Violins (William Remedios & Albert Da Cruz),  and the Piano (Lorraine Moniz & Muriel MacMarshall) together with the Traditional Dancers (Glynis Menezes, Robin Eliezer,& Constance Fernandes) represent the Sanskrit and Latin components of our Musical Heritage. The singers are representation by Helen Imlay, Hilda Remedios, Maureen Rodrigues, Nancy Eliezer, Brenda Picardo, Theresa Nazareth, Tina Fernandes, Norma D'Souza, Marilyn Lobo, Shannen Moniz and Sheldon Moniz, Tony D'Souza, Roy Picardo, Leonard Correia, who seek to share the great song wealth of the microcosmic India that is the Konkan as an expression of our contribution to Multiculturalism.

We were honoured to have been asked to take part in the WORLD MUSIC GIG 2000 which was hosted by KULCHA-The Multicultural Arts of W.A. The  whole of our presentation was recorded by the ABC on 25th August, 2000.

OZ-GOAMOG presentation of the 25th August, 2000 will be featured on ABC for Radio National's Paul Petran's Music Deli. This Programme which was recorded in Perth will be broadcast from Melbourne. It can be heard on Saturdays, at 7.05 p.m.after the National News all over Australia.

We invite all lovers of Konkani music to tune to this programme and enjoy the presentation and share in this presentation of our music by a band of Musicians who are dedicated to preserve, foster and encourage the recovery of our Musical Traditions in our Land of Adoption.

Please send me an E-Mail so that I can confirm with you the exact programme date and time of the broadcast. We would like all lovers of Konkani Music in Australia to tune in to this programme. We hope to bring some feeling of Nostalgia for the our Land of Origins in the Konkan (We have people from Mangalore, Bombay and Goa in our Group) and hope to get your feedback, to enable us to get to that point of excellence when we can produce our very own CD.

As we say at OZ-GOAMOG - Take care and God Bless
MOG sadamcal assuni.
Albert Da Cruz
Convenor


From: Albert Da Cruz <albertdc@ozemail.com.au>