Legendary singer Latha Walpola, fondly known as the Nightingale of Sinhala Music, has passed away at the age of 91.Family ...

‘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 ...

Himaw Arana brings out many things that we have not known about Amaradeva and his music, it's a fitting tribute to the great musician. Jayasena Kulatunga, Maradana, Colombo Amaradeva's greatest ...

In Modernizing Composition: Sinhala Song, Poetry, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka (University of California Press, 2017), Garrett Field emphasises the role that radio played in ...

Commercialisation’ of Sinhala music with the advent of ring-tone music and some new FM radio channels selling air time packages to play songs of present and past musical creations of singers have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Dr. Donaldson noticed a close link between ‘Thewava’, the Dalada Maligawa ritual drummer music and Sunil Santha’s—and the uniqueness of the laghu-guru rule. While Australian universities assign ...