Finally, the long-awaited opening of Aldi in Western Australia. Over a span of 3 days, Polkadot + Moonbeam (P+M) roved Belmont Forum and celebrated with busy crowds serenading them with our four-string swing. Popular classics presented in the flavour of the 40s to 50s with the sweet sounds of the Melodica and ukulele and our voices in harmony.
The grand opening on 8th June 2016 drew queues that the mall couldn’t hold. And we interweaved the crowds and entertained the Aldi-curious families with prams and excited little children. Channel 9 news also caught a special moment of us singing to a little child in the queue curious about all that jazz. We loved roving the wings of the expansive mall interacting with ‘children’ from 1 to 92. So many treasured memories for us to take away with: Lovely smiles and kind words from lovely ladies from the cafes complimenting us on the music and how it made their day (their smiles made ours), and a wonderful Indian gentleman who came up to ‘join’ our band amazing us with his air-flute talent; an accordion player who came up to say how I (Polkadot) played the Melodica like an accordion; little children whose eyes still wet from tears lighting up as we crooned a little song to them and the moments they break into smiles, or the little African girl whose shyness didn’t stop her from taking side glances and coming up to us to clap for us, and last but not least, the beautiful moment that made both of us sing with tears in our eyes when a Filipino toddler (that didn’t stop him) literally raced up to tuck his beautiful little head on me just as we struck the 4th chord in My Baby Just Cares for Me, and he never left ’til the first chorus of the song, looking up with all innocence and wonder-ment at Moonbeam whilst resting against my cheek.
Hurray for Aldi in Perth! Hurray for Belmont Forum and their little elves for doing such a fine job! Hurray for all of us celebrating another beautiful weekend with music and lovely memories. Bless you all. xx Thank you Champion Music for the gig!