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10th anniversary monsoon concert & other good news!
Our 10th anniversary monsoon concert will feature the children of Child’s Play and Camerata Child’s Play India. We’ll also be joined by special guest musicians. Laura Riccardi (violin) and Jonathan Bager (flute) will be soloists in the programme. They will also work with the orchestra prior to the concert. Laura and Jonathan performed for us in…
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Singing in the rain: A monsoon update from our Choral Director
As I approach the end of my six months here in Goa, we also approach the annual monsoon concert with the charity. It has been a pleasure to work with these children and young people, and to see them grow in confidence. One girl in particular comes to mind; when I first met her, she…
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Child’s Play India Foundation kids and teachers play Perpetual Motion (Suzuki) 28 Feb 2016
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSItFKPfkno]
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Start every day with a song: A post by our volunteer choral director Nicky Manlove
“Start every day with a song; add a smile and it won’t be long ’til people around you are singing and smiling along, smiling along.” (Elizabeth Gilpatrick, “Start Every Day with a Song”) This is the text to the first song I have been teaching all my children – it is simple but important, and…
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Adopt-a-Musician!
For just Rs.500 a month (6000 a year) you can support the music education of one of our children. Help us give India’s disadvantaged children the joy of playing an instrument, playing together with other children in an ensemble and gain self-confidence, self-esteem and a potential skill for employment when they grow up. We now…
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Thanks to our donors!
We have been very lucky with instrument donations. Whenever we have needed something, our generous band of supporters come through for us and somehow ensure that we get what we need. This is what happened to us recently. Some of our flutes needed repairs and it is more expensive to repair them properly here than…
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Our cello kids perform at Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts
On March 7, two of our cello kids – Vinayak and Zaheer – along with our volunteer teacher Lukas, performed at Sunaparanta – Goa Centre for the Arts. They provided the music for a play called ‘The King and Queen Want Sweat’, an English play translated from the original Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar. We…