Happy New Year



Rawhinia and Astar Christmas Day 2011

  We had a wonderful Christmas day. We decided to do something different this year so we found a group that serves a Christmas lunch to homeless and underprivileged people. We were in charge of handing out presents to the children. If you are ever stuck for something to do or you want to do something extraordinary then we recommend that you volunteer to help, like we did. It was the best!!!!  There was a little boy that came up to us and told us about his favourite toy. He had been given a Transformer by another child but even though it had no legs it was his favourite. We found 2 new transformers toys and gave them to the boy and his face lit up like the best Christmas Tree ever,
SO COOL!!!!!!!!

We want to wish you an amazing year 2012

Tune in soon   A & R





Christmas Carols

Hi it's Katusha here. The girls have been very busy and as a result have not had the time to post. SORRY.

Astar and Rawhinia turned 13 and for their birthday we went to the ice skating rink and then to the beach with some of their friends. It was a perfect day.

The girls have also been performing a lot lately for community Christmas parties. Playing carols as background music is a fun way to perform.
Hopefully we will be posting next week.

Cheers Katusha

Melbourne Cup

Hi everyone, just  to give you a catchup. A fundraiser was held for us on Melbourne Cup Day. It was a lunch with all the bells and of course us playing violin.

We would like to extend a big thankyou to Tanya Mundt and Lisa Leadbeatter for all the work organising the Melbourne Cup fundraiser, without them it would not have happened. With the help of some very generous people at PURE CATERING – Chrissy, BELLBIRD CREEK TEA HOUSE, KENILWORTH BUTCHERY, AFFORDABLE ON ELIZABETH, MARLENE HANKINSON and GRANT MUNDT,  $500 was raised and donated to our violin trip to Europe.

Once again a very BIG THANKYOU from Astar and Rawhinia.

Tune in soon A & R

Healthy Hints Page - A little bit about the Magic of Turmeric

Freshly Picked Turmeric

If you go to Nana`s Healthy Hints Page you can find out all about the amazing healing plant Turmeric. We grow it in our garden and harvest the rhizomes in September after the plant has died back. When you cut the rhizome the inside is a bright orangey-yellow. It is what makes Indian food go that bright yellow colour.
You can use it to also dye clothes!   


We will be posting later - it has been a really full-on Melbourne Cup Week!

Tune in again,  A & R

Children in Zambia

Astar and Rawhinia had a busy weekend. Starting on Saturday they were asked to help out some young violin players with performance on the Sunshine Coast.

On Sunday they had the privilege of performing (with the SCYO) to raise funds for unprivileged children in Zambia. It was a wonderful event and everything was donated from the performance, which meant that 100% of the money goes straight to the School and Orphanage in Zambia. They have over 800 children that they look after.  It is amazing.

Cheers Katusha

Busking at Kenilworth Arts Festival

Recently we were invited to busk at the Kenilworth Arts Festival. This is a festival that is held every year at Kenilworth. This year they had roaming buskers. We had a great time and as a bonus we won an $50 encouragement prize.

Nigel Kennedy

We have found a couple of pieces of music for you to listen to by Nigel Kennedy on Youtube. Kennedy is playing the violin, this one is  when Kennedy was younger playing The Four Seasons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PipHtumoiL0&feature=related 

This next piece is a deeply moving piece of music that shows up Kennedy's perfect playing. Just beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKn-RiSpFcs&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeQm2ls_Cu4-cm-RRVT8IVO

We hope that you like the music.

We will post again next week.

Tune in soon  A & R

Womens Celebration

Hi everyone, sorry we haven't posted for a week. We have been very busy.

On the holidays we had the honour of performing at a Women's Celebration. The celebration is held every year. Each year different women are invited to perform at a dinner that celebrates what women can achieve. We were the first to perform (because we were the youngest). The celebration started at 6:30pm and finished at around midnight (we didn't stay all night). Although we didn't stay all night all of the acts that we saw were fabulous, ranging from folk singers, jazz, and pop music. We are still baking and busking to save up for our trip to Europe (a long way to go but we are not giving up). We will post again on Monday next week.

Tune in Soon  A & R