Victor Ratnayake’s ‘Thotupala Aine’ and ‘Viduli Dumriye Chanchala Nadaya’ sung by Rupa Indumathi and Lakshman Rodrigo are rare exceptions when it comes to experimentation with song writing. Last week, ...

‘Lil Enza’ is the newest singing sensation in the Sinhala music world. Rappers are rare in the Sinhala scene and specially female rappers very limited to Colombo only. But Ardithya Rathnayaka ...

No stranger to Colombo’s music and theatre scene, the very talented Dmitri Gunathilake is venturing into a new sphere for her with “Mathakayan”, a tribute to much loved Sinhala classics, ranging from ...

(MENAFN- NewsIn.Asia) Colombo, August 30 (Facebook): Incomparable master composer R.Muthusamy Ramaya Asari Muthusamy was born on January 5, 1926 in Nagerkovil in Tamil Nadu bordering Kerala in South ...

Right at the outset I need to justify the above subtitle. The readers may be understandably perturbed that the use of the word Christian is an irrelevant identity marker, given the violence that ...

The pioneers of the cultural revival which materialised in countries like Sri Lanka in the early 20th century laid the groundwork for the evolution and modernisation of the arts in the region. Yet ...

‘Rituals and Music in the Temple of the Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka’, was Donaldson’s doctoral thesis at Monash University for research on which he visited Sri Lanka in 1996. “From my Hotel room ...

In this month we are introducing a secondary school girl Hiruni Perera from Perth who has won the state music awards and her own two solo Sinhala songs recently released “The Next Generation” ...

The Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka organised an evening with musician and Magsaysay award winner Pandit Amaradeva, at India House here on Monday, to celebrate his six decades of excellence in ...

What connects music composer M.S. Viswanathan to a group of Sinhalese people shaking a leg at a weekend party? An all-time hit Sinhala song that was inspired by his rustic 1970s composition ‘Ennadi ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, I juxtapose the ways the "father of modern Sinhala drama" John De Silva, and the Sinhah language reformer, Munidasa ...