Happy Anniversary - La Gran Milonga - 29 Years

Wishing Luis & family a very Happy Anniversary... if you are around the Gold Coast tonight, celebrate La Gran Milonga.

Lest We Forget - Anzac Day 100 years

Remembering today - my grandfather and my uncle who gave their lives.
My father and my uncle who served. Thank you. Lest We Forget.
Image credit: London Street Artist Grafter.

On The Death Of The Beloved
— John O’Donohue

Though we need to weep your loss,
You dwell in that safe place in our hearts,
Where no storm or night or pain can reach you.
Your love was like the dawn
Brightening over our lives
Awakening beneath the dark
A further adventure of colour.
The sound of your voice
Found for us
A new music
That brightened everything.

Whatever you enfolded in your gaze
Quickened in the joy of its being;
You placed smiles like flowers
On the altar of the heart.
Your mind always sparkled
With wonder at things.

Though your days here were brief,
Your spirit was live, awake, complete.
We look towards each other no longer
From the old distance of our names;
Now you dwell inside the rhythm of breath,
As close to us as we are to ourselves.

Though we cannot see you with outward eyes,
We know our soul’s gaze is upon your face,
Smiling back at us from within everything
To which we bring our best refinement.

Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens,
When kindness glows
And music echoes eternal tones.
When orchids brighten the earth,
Darkest winter has turned to spring;
May this dark grief flower with hope
In every heart that loves you.

May you continue to inspire us:

To enter each day with a generous heart.
To serve the call of courage and love
Until we see your beautiful face again
In that land where there is no more separation,
Where all tears will be wiped from our mind,
And where we will never lose you again.

Celebrating Moshlo - thank you for the music.

Remembering & celebrating Moshlo. Thank you for the music and the dances.

Tango Paradiso play at Woodford Folk Festival 2011. In Queensland, Australia. Piazzolla's Guardia Nueva. Band members - Carla Thackrah, flute; Moshlo violin; Marco Deferri accordion; Eugenie Costello violin; Andrew Shaw bass.

Tango Paradiso performs a live broadcast for Fine Music 102.5 FM radio, St Leonards, Sydney on March 29, 2014. Interview with Moshlo.

Doina (traditional Jewish lament) from Moshlo's CD 'Doina Violin'. Performed by Moshlo on violin, Paul Hankinson, piano. Film created by Carla and Carola. Shot and recorded in The Dungeon, Berlin, 2012.

Music available at: Tango Paradiso