villagers from socorro came together to celebrate goas heritage culture music and food during the patoienchem fest last week organised by the sucorro socioart and cultural association and festakar marius fernandes the festival was a mix of tradition and true goan spirit we had catered to 1500 and the food was finished but everyone got to taste we had done 1000 patoleos 1000 pudes and sannas it was a fantastic festival of colour and culture says mariusthere was a group of women performing the fugdi children from primary school performing goan dances village groups performing music and dance and performances by oluv and others we promote goan things through our festivals the patoleos are close to the hindu and catholics goans so we promoted patoleos and the ghumot during this festival says mariusoluv sung his original composition ghum ghum ghum which is based on the ghumot he performed with the biggest ghumot which has a special strap made of the kunbi fabric we gifted the ghumot to people who have been supporting the festival since its inception we had senior citizens take part and each one had one minder each to take care of them they did a small music programme as well