
Their second disc was released in June 1971 in Philips label. After that as the English singer Anil Bharathi joined there but guidance of Clarence they entered to sing sinhala songs. As the main songstress Lankika Perera joined golden chimes group. After that Clarence who left moonstone group started a new group of The Golden chimes with Shanaka Perera.The first song disk of golden chimes was released in January 1971.Kimada nawe, “Mage pelpathe”, “Sihin sinawai” and “Samanalayo” songs were in that disk. While it was a poem what Abesekara wrote about his son to the Silumina News Paper, with his permissions Clarence Wijewardane converted it to a song. ‘Dileepa Podi Puthu’ song what is the first and last song which he sang with moonstone music group. 1969 was an important year for the moonstone group because ‘Dilhani’which was the best sales in Sri Lanka released in that year at the same time an immortal man was born in moonstone group. A new songstress joined the moonstone group in 1969. ‘Mango Nenda’ song which was broadcasted in radio in ‘Hit Parade’ program selected as the best sinhala song. “Kalu mama”, “Rosa male”, “Ramani” and “Goyam kapanawa” songs were there. It was named ’More Hits by the Moonstones ‘with the first label of Sooriya (CHB 001). Mango Nenda, Ruwan Puraya, Seethe Udaya etc were in that album.While 5000 of copies were sold, the second release of that group was released November in the same year. After that first E.P disk ‘Mango Nenda’ was released in 1968 under JVPC007 Philips label. While Ravi Shankar was inserted to the ‘Beatles’ music group in England as a Sitar player, Upali Abesekara was inserted to the moonstone group as a sitar player to make changes in Sinhala pop-up music of Sri Lanka. After that he could make changes in Sinhala Music by Introducing electric guitars for the Sri Lankan music.Ĭlarence who researched in music built a new foundation by inserting peradiga & batahira music. The songs which were famous could make those people who were used to hear only English songs hear Sinhala Songs. They could broadcast their songs in wireless at 9.00 pm – 9.15pm in Saturday Star Program. Some of them are “Mango Nenda”, “Ruwan puraya”, “Seetha ude” and “Menike”. In 1966 they could create some new songs which were recorded in radio station. He did it after recognizing their skills in 1966. Mr.Wijaya Koreya who was the program, executive of radio gave them a chance to publish their music with wireless. While he was finding a songstress for the moonstone group, he met Anesly Malewana. While he didn’t sing songs in that time duration, he confronted only for harmony. He worked like that with his friends by constituting a music group name of Moonstone. He who started his music life in 21 st was a Guitar player, musician and a director. He was born in 3 rd August 1943 in Haputhale as the elder of his family. At the same time Clarence Wijewardane who skilled in that time duration was the king of Sri Lankan pop-up music. Elvis Prisly was called as the king of pop-up music. If we hit our target of $2,700, it will cover printing and venue hire for our workshops.End of 60 th decade and in 70 th decade was an important period for the pop-up music in the world because the golden period of pop-up music was started in that duration. Larger donors and sponsors can have their logos or ads in the program, or just chat to us about what that could mean.
#INDRANI PERERA PROGRAMS FREE#
Our program supports and promotes independent poetry and spoken word events as part of our program, with over 50 events this year, many of which are free and with open mics, this festival supports poets and events often ignored by mainstream and funded arts organisations. Our print program goes to the printers in a couple of short weeks, and without this money, we're not able to use our program to reach new people and bring in wider audiences to the festival, something that people rely on for the success of their events. This year, with the festival set to kick off in July, we need support to pay for upfront costs of getting the festival off the ground, for printing and a couple of venue bookings, before we're able to sell tickets. With no government funding, and just the generous support of donations and a few sponsors we pulled it off, and think that Melbourne, with already so many festivals, needs a festival dedicated to the artforms of spoken word and poetry. Last year we ran the first Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival, in May 2018, with over 35 events over two weeks, heaps of events were either sold out or packed out.
