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The Fiji Times » Making music that lasts forever


Viliame Odrovakavula
13 May, 2021, 8:00 pm
From left: Joji Toge, Jone Rusa and another band member at Namada Village in Nadroga. Picture: ATU RASEA
Jone Rusa still remembers the nights when his father, Ulaiasi Vasuitaukei, would get home from work with a couple of bags of yaqona and ask for a mix.
Rusa said he and his brother, Joji Toge, would leave whatever they were doing and get the utensils ready.
They knew the night would be a combination of music and history lessons.
“That was how my brother and I learnt how to play the guitar and sing,” Rusa said.
“It was so beautiful to share a basin of grog with our father and sing all the old timers and Cripple Serenaders songs.”

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