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 ...

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 ...

Before introducing two new CDs released by Sri Lanka's leading songstress, Nanda Malini with a selection of her film songs sung over the years, it's opportune to look back and see how Sri Lankan film ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The final rites of the 'Nightingale of Sinhala Music' Kalasuri Latha Walpola will be held this evening at Independence Square ...

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 ...

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

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 ...