Philoxia was renowned for its Saturday evening musical soirees throughout the spring, summer and fall, which brought families and visitors for dinner and music from hundreds of miles away, along with entertaining the dozens of in-house guests. Iilah's original melodies allowed Philoxia's music to take on a whole new flare each weekend, sometimes it was Jazzy, the next week it could be very Latino,, then there were great blues nights, as well as Caribbean and Reggae nights.
Iilah played a variety of instruments from guitars, drums, banjo, keyboards and accordion, while Tawlia was and is, as Iilah puts it, "the bass of his band", along with the other fine live-in musicians who were part of Philoxia's community.
Every week at Philoxia,,, people were entertained by our house band. Depending on the crowd sometimes it was Eclectic, Jazz, Latin, Caribbean, Gypsy or Angelic Funk.
Best of all, Philoxia always had very interesting, international guests, who, as friends do, would just pop in now and then, play for the weekend and off they'd go, leaving Tawlia's and Iilah's Spa guests bedazzled. Like on the weekends when Yahn Henko would come by with his wonderful Ukrainian family and that night they would be having a Gypsy Soiree. These folks played with the Chevchenko Orchestra, Woi!!, , , people couldn't believe what they were seeing, hearing and being a part off. One really fine, bright eyed conscientious eatin', gray hair'd lil' Grand Ma summed up the Philoxians music very well one night. She was visiting for the weekend with her family and had seen the constant serving of food to the hundreds of guests from breakfast time onto the feast that was served by the Philoxians that evening. When all was cleaned and washed, the Philoxians took 10 to change and fluff, to get up on stage in their beautiful, hand made stage outfits in front of 130 plus guests. As they finished their opening song, this Grandma stood up and said, "Now that's a band that really cooks", and right she was.
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