BITTER-SWEET MEMORIES 🎶

 

(A FB Memory from last year, on this day, 28th January '2024.)

In a week, that has left most of us friends, completely lost in thought, and bewildered by how 'Uncertain' life can be, this concert put together by Winston Fernandes, in Borivali on the 26th of January, 2024, added some Music to all our lives. 🎶

'Pulse' is a group of mostly friends from IC, some of Winston's students, and this time, a few guest performers also. 

They were doing this concert after a very long time, and since almost everyone is busy with work, meeting for a lot of practices was tough too. They did a great job though and everyone who was there, enjoyed the evening.👏👏👏 

Like both Winston and Karen said, during the course of the evening: We owe our love for the old songs, to our Parents. They are the ones who first introduced us to Music, that was popular, well before we were even born. 

It was nice to hear 'Pulse and Friends' singing songs across many genres, and especially a lot of the older evergreen melodies, that most of us love.😊❤️

Winston Fernandes (The brain behind the event, Vocals, Keyboard, Guitar, Voice parts arranger and lots, lots more)

- Savio D'Silva (Lead Guitar) - One fabulous Musician

- Roshan Thomas (Bass Guitar) - I was a 'Proud Teacher' as I watched Roshan play, because he is also one of my students from DB.

- Jeetvan and Suwellyn D'Cunha (Drums and Rhythm)

- Ryan Menezes (Keyboard)

- Bimal Chatterjee (Guest Musician - Alto Saxophone)

- Karen Rai Kingsellers, Melissa Serrao and Johncie Correia (Vocals)

- Trevor Loyola and Carmelita Fernandes - Guest Vocalists

The group did a 'Special Dedication' during the Concert, with very heavy hearts, to one of our dear friends (who is also a part of 'Pulse'). She lost both her husband (who was our friend too, and had only recently turned 50) and his mum, 6 days apart in the same week. In fact, his mum passed away on the day of the concert itself. We have no words to express how we feel, but we all share the pain of the Family.🤗❤️

(What an unforgettable few weeks those were, last year in January!😔

Two days ago, on Sunday the 26th, 2025, which was exactly a year later, we sang a couple of hymns, at both the graves of our friend and his mother,  together with many of our old Choir friends.

Time - It gallops along...

The Memories - They remain.😢)