A music workshop for underprivileged children was conducted Saturday by the Spanish Jazz band, Jaume Vilaseca and Trio, at the St. Inez slum area in Panjim. The event was organized by Goa ForGiving, the charity wing of Trancemedia which owns two popular music foundations, Konkani Rocks and Heritage Jazz.

About 50 kids belonging to the economically weaker segment of the society attended the event. Jaume Vilaseca and trio introduced Jazz form of music to...Read More...

Whenever international or famous artists perform on the Heritage Jazz stage, we make it a point to give back to society as well. Under our charity wing Goa ForGiving, we try and bring cheer to the underprivileged. Yeshua the revolutionary worship rock band from Mumbai, worked with the underprivileged kids from the St. Inez slum. Cameron, the lead singer of Yeshua, worked his magic with the kids. The songs and dance appeal to the kids and they joined in...Read More...

Trancemedia, under it’s sister brands Heritage Jazz, Konkani Rocks and Goa ForGiving has been organizing Jazz Festivals in Goa over the past decade with the focus on a variety of topics and issues like peace, heritage, religious worship and so on.

This year the jazz festival’s limelight will cover Goa and its environment, which is a burning issue at present as garbage piles up and the government and...Read More...

Goa ForGiving brings Christmas cheer to senior citizens

Caroling is common worldwide, to usher in the Christmas-New Year festivities. This year’s caroling will remain a special memory for the 72-year old Estelvina Fernandes, an inmate of the Lar Santa Margarita Home for the...Read More...

Saskia laroo has always been keen on doing workshops with underprivileged children. And this is where our heart is too.  So, when she was around in the month of November 2010, we went about inspiring slum kids at St Inez.

As Armando Gonsalves and our team went about being with the...Read More...

The Charcoal sketching Workshop was organized by Rajendra Ussapkar. He  is a well-known Goan artist.

A heaven for tourists and lovers of art & culture, the state of Goa has produced many great figures in the fields of music, art, drama, literature and other performing arts, due to its rich cultural heritage and history. Like most Goan artists, Rajendra received his early training in drawing & painting...Read More...

 Blind With Camera (a project of the Beyond Sight Foundation, Mumbai) will be in Goa on 10th & 11th July for a photographic workshop headed by Partho Bhowmick along with the visually impaired people from Goa at the Sta.Cruz i.e.opposite football ground  behind Virdavan Hospital ,2:30-6:00pm. This is the first of its kind workshop conducted in Goa with the locals.

The workshop is conducted in coordination with NAB (National Association for the Blind), Goa and...Read More...

 Heritage Jazz continues to do many things on the social platform whether it has been working with the blind, or raising funds for tsunami victims, or having music workshops for school kids across Goa, or organizing peace events through music, or helping out various NGO”s in different ways, or teaching Konkani music to the St Inez Nullah kids or doing so many other things that pull at the heart strings! But the latest initiative, of celebrating...Read More...

Once again the veranda of the beautiful Gonsalves Mansion was buzzing with life and vibrancy! It was fizzing with paints, colors, brushes, easels, canvases and young murmurs! Heritage Jazz in association with eminent artists, Unnati Singh and Salvador Fernandes has organized a 4 days painting workshop for the underprivileged kids from the St. Inez Bandh. The workshop commenced on Monday, 7th June 2010 and continued till Thursday, 10th June 2010 every afternoon...Read More...

After having the crowd enthralled with their Gypsy jazz flair, The ‘Harri Stojka Quartet’ was all set to imbue the same innovative music techniques in Goan musicians. A fun-filled, thrilling and enlightening workshop was conducted at the Home of Jazz, the beautiful Gonsalves Mansion on the 3rd of May.

Late in the afternoon, the young gifted musicians started pouring in with guitars on their backs, eyes sparkling with anticipation and...Read More...

After having set the jazz courtyard ablaze with emotions on 7th March, the Barbara Carlotti Quartet set out to fill the young hearts with all shades of human feelings in the air of Mount Carmel’s college campus on the 8th of March- ‘The International Women’s Day’. The girls were truly excited and actively participated and interacted with the band; they found Barbara resourceful, self driven, talented as she set an example of her. They were...Read More...

Before the stage lights were on at the Jazz courtyard, for the last courtyard show of this season, the band headed around the bend to Don Bosco’s high School Panjim, for an afternoon of music, laughter and fun.

This time around Heritage Jazz presented Francois Bourassa, renowned jazz pianist and lovely chanteuse Jeanne Rochette from Quebec supported by two of India’s finest Jazz performers, Gino Banks,...Read More...

After leaving the jazz savvy crowd speechless at the Jazz yard on Sunday, the Marcus Wyatt quintet was on the road again on this exquisite South African musical Safari. Their next stop was The Green Rosary Girls High School in Dona Paula, for a wonderful workshop with the students on Monday, the 18th of January 2010, afternoon.

The hall was filled to the brim with the energetic little lasses excited about all the fun they were about to have. They...Read More...

‘Heritage Jazz’, played host to Acuri, World famous Brazilian instrumental maestros. They performed live at the Gonsalves Mansion on August 15 th 2009, in aid of Brasil Futebol Academia (BFA).On August 17, 2009 Heritage Jazz also organized a workshop with The King's School, Margao.The Workshop was held by the band members themselves, i.e.Pedro Carneiro (Keyboards and Melodica),Cacá Guifer (Flute, Saxophone and Percussion), Roberto Kauffmann (Drums,...Read More...

Heritage Jazz organized a music master class in Classical Guitar on Thursday, 16th April, 2009 at Garden Central Studio, Ribeiro Building.The masterclass was being conducted by Ms. Louise Southwood , who is a graduate from the world famous Royal College of Music, London. As many of you will be aware, it is one of the most prestigious music colleges in England. She has attended master classes by Bream, John Williams and many others...Read More...

Saskia Laroo Quintet along with Harri Stojka Quartet conducted a workshop for our upcoming musicians at the Gonsalves Mansion, Courtyard in Campal

Andy Grosskopf at Sharada Mandir School teaching the students how to work out any kind of song, style of music and instrumentation.

The Parent Teacher Association of Sharada Mandir in association with The Spirit of Goa Charitable Trust organized The Heritage Jazz Workshop. It was conducted by The Trumpet Queen Saskia Laroo along with her Quintet Warren Byrd on Piano, Philippe Lemm on drums, William Sebastien on beatbox and Daniel Gueli on bass.

Students from Sharada Mandir School and Sunshine School attended the 3 hours workshop that was held...Read More...

The Sascha Ley Quintet held a workshop for the Sharada Mandir School kids of the age 10-15 years at the Gonsalves Mansion,Courtyard in Campal. The basic theme of the workshop was about the instruments that the group played, and how the music was put together. There was a Jazz song and one of the pieces from the concert program to demonstrate. A total of about 15 children participated...Read More...