Violin for International Peace Day

Hi everyone,
Wednesday was International Peace Day and we were asked to perform at a celebration in Brisbane. Here is a pic. of us practicing for  Peace Day.




 The Peace Day Celebration was held at Kupidabin Wilderness Cultural Centre.

They started with adding a plaque to the Peace Pole then they had a Traditional Peace fire.

After there was afternoon tea and this is where we played. It was a great day.

Since then we have busked at an Art festival, done an art workshop and performed at a Women's Celebration. We will tell you about all of these later.
P.S. we may be posting late next week.

Tune in Soon  A & R


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Camping

Rawhinia and Astar at the camp site

Well as you know we went camping on the weekend. It was perfect weather. On Friday we had tennis lessons and after tennis finished we were meant to pack the car, BUT Astar fell off a scooter on to the road and grazed her arms quite badly. So we ended up at the hospital (because the cuts were to big and deep for mum to fix). Astar is quite tough and she still wanted to go camping, so we packed on Saturday morning.


Rawhinia and Astar at the creek (Astar keeping her arms dry)


It was really good fun. We set up the tent near a fire-pit and relaxed through the afternoon. On Sunday some friends arrived for a picnic lunch and joined us for a swim in the creek.
This Wednesday is International Peace Day and we have been asked to perform in Brisbane at a celebration. We will take some photos and write about it on Monday.

Tune in Soon  A & R 

Queensland Youth Orchestra

This last week we have been practicing for a concert with the QYO2 (Queensland Youth Orchestra). The concert was on Saturday at the Old Museum in Brisbane. The QYO2 are amazing, it is hard to put down our violins now that we have heard how fantastic they are. Sergei V Korschmin, their conductor, is so passionate and gives it his all. One of the pieces they performed was 'Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor' so cool.
The SCYO (we are in the first violins) played 'Bellingrath Gardens', 'Overture to the Wasps' and 'Overture to the Marriage of Figaro'.

Next weekend we are going camping with mum, so we may be a bit late in posting.

Tune in soon  A & R

Fundraising for Charity

Hi, Welcome to our Journey
As you can see we are identical twins and very passionate about music especially violin. We are 12 years old and have been given a wonderful opportunity to go to the UK for a musical educational experience, including meeting up with Nigel Kennedy (the famous violinist). We just need some help getting there.
To read more have a look at Our History page.
Tune in soon, A & R

Hi this is Katusha.

Astar and Rawhinia are busy doing assignments and have asked me to do the post for them.
I thought that you might like to hear about what the girls do for charities. They always say yes when they are asked to perform for charities.

 They perform for leukaemia patients, to raise money to help the families. They have been asked to perform at a fundraising event for women with cancer. They have played for  children at local kindergartens. Astar and Rawhinia have performed for International Peace Day (and will be performing again this year for this event). When the cyclone ripped through North Queensland Astar and Rawhinia went busking to raise money which they put towards things that the children effected by the cyclone could use. When the fires decimated Victoria the girls went busking and donated money, along with nearly all their toys and a lot of their clothing, as they wanted to help the children affected. Astar and Rawhinia have performed at nursing homes to brighten up the residents day. Astar and Rawhinia have also sent books to New Guinea for remote schools to use.
And there's MUCH more. It is so nice to see the girls getting pleasure from helping and inspiring others.
The girls will be posting again next week.

Cheers Katusha