Some years ago, I started to research into my family history, and during this process I first came to know the story of John Baptist Pinto, my great grandfather. This remarkable man was someone I have a vague childhood recollection of, dating back to a trip home to…
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Goa Culture List is pleased to carry a number of CD’s produced by the Jazz Goa organization. The CDs from Goa Culture List are cleaned up, indexed and converted to Audio CD Format. This means you can conveniently pop them in your stereo or car player. Colin D’Cruz has recently rearranged a number of Portuguese folksongs and Konkani classics within a Jazz envelope. He injected Latin rhythms and new upbeat tempos and recorded the songs in his Goa studio using accomplished and largely unknown local singers and musicians. Goa Jazz…
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Internationally known Goan Jazz bassist Colin D’Cruz supported local singer-songwriter Laura Fernandez in her recent appearance at Toronto’s Jazz Bistro. Colin D’Cruz and a stalwart group of friends, musicians, and music lovers, formed the spirited Jazz Goa organization to promote Jazz emanating from Goa
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Canada has become home of a growing number of Goans. This anthology captures their stories, fiction and non-fiction, and reminiscences.
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Inside/Out: New writing from Goa is the first anthology of the Group, which includes some of the best-known writers in the state. The book is now available in Canada.
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On 25th Jan 2017 a small team of volunteers taped a series of short interviews. The object of the exercise was to test the team’s ability to capture oral history in a systematic and professional manner
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The Active Goan Adults (AGA) meet at the Square One Older Adults Centre. They were the only Goan Group in Mississauga to accepted the Mayor’s 2017 #OneBagChallenge. Congratulations to them.
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