The Forefront * Blue Orange * Imagination * Symphony * Jazz Junction * Sparks * Foremost * Bondo * Remo * Beat Four * Les Vandals * Top Ranks (Kuwait) * Blue Turtle * Silver Lining * Jazz Quarter * Indiana's Abel * Muzik Mann * Sky * Artwork * Syndicate * Brood of Vipers * William Drums * Pirates * Moderates * Sonia & Fausta * Johnson & His Jolly Boys * The Merry Makers (Saligao) * Luis and His Melodians * Ebony * Sky * Jazz Quartet with Victor Shreves at the Taj Sinquerim * The Yamaha Music Invasion (RP Stadium) * The Great Music Revival (KA) * Top Ranks (Kuwait) * The Sting (led by August Braganza) * Remo-Bondo-Abel-Lala * The Jazz Swingers (Dar es Salaam) * Braz Gonsalves * Simla Beat Contest * Royal's Hotel Calangute * Bing * Lucia Afonso (accordion) * Poison Ivy and Casual Encounters (all-girl bands) * Fame (from Bombay, with Kim Cardozo and a drum machine) * Radio Serenaders * Luis and His Melodians * Valadares Sisters * Carmen and Arlita * Silver Lining * Black Slades * Silver Strings * Genesis * Gerard Machado Network from Bangalore * Big City Band * Lynx (old ad new) * sCascades * India * Limits * The Band * Climax * Strangers * Chocolate Highway * Rolling Beats * Rocking Beats * Links * Emiliano D'Cruz and The Gay Caballeros * Billy Rangers (Tuninho Nogar, Lucia Afonso, D Tony Godinho, Remo Fernandes, Alex Rosario in 1959) * Billy n De Kids * The Music Company * Nandinho Lobato de Faria * Fatima Lobato de Faria * Arlem Festival * Caetano Abreu * Alexandre * Dilip Chico * Nite of the Fortnight (FM Rainbow) * Valerio Jorge * Sameer Kapadi * Silk Route * Emmanuel Antao * Seby Forefront * Hugo's Hungry Hill * Forefront Unplugged * The Bassman's Band featuring Stella Pinto * Piqueno (late Victor Alvares from Loutolim) * Victor Alvares (bass player, Loutolim) * Triad (Herman Abreu, William D'Souza, late Victor Alvares, amazing keyboard-trombone player Ramon from Blore) * Alexandre * Chris Perry * The Walking Grunt (rapper) * Cloud Burst (with Neville D'Souza from Curtorim) * Magnum Opus (with Black Michael) * The Coffee Cats * Alexandro Rosario from Ponda * Oscar * Fr Archie on the Sax ... and many, many more.
Do these names (in no order of importance) spell music to your ears? Have you danced to these Goan bands? Do you recall their music wistfully? If so, now is the time to pay tribute to those heroes (and heroines) who crafted music for Goa ove the years. Calling on all who were part of Goa's bands to join the WhatsApp group called *Bands in Goa* (send in your request via +91-9822122436, WhatsApp). Please note, this is currently a rather heavy volume WhatsApp group, with about a hundred messages buzzing around each day. For a lighter version of the same, check out the *Bands in Goa: A Timeline* Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/286605529063663/ FN -- FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556 <https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha>