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‘Royal-Thomian Cricket Carnival’ on CD from Rajiv
By Poorna Rodrigo
The Royal -Thomian Cricket Carnival recorded live - the latest to hit the market by Rajiv and the Clan is indeed a “mixed bag” with a bit of hard-to-forget Sinhala and English old hits.

The CD comprising four medleys has a bit of everything in it. It includes some popular English songs of the good old days such as ‘Send me the pillow’, ‘Blue Berry Hill’, ‘Do what you do, do well’, ‘Save the Last Dance’, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’, Lemon Tree’ and ‘Ballad of John and Yoko’.

Not forgetting the Sinhala music lovers, the second medley starts from the song “Ese Madura Gee” and followed by ‘Nelum Ville’ and ‘Shantha Me Reyame’, Yamuna’, ‘Podi None’, ‘Siripade’, ‘Pele Wasana Ran Mali’ etc.

The next medley is a segment of popular Baila including ‘Yaman Bando’, ‘Irine Josephine’, ‘ Dompe Aaya’ Iskole Kale’ etc and the final part is only music of some famous hits such as ‘Saints go marching in’ , ‘Indira’, ‘Me Rate Minissu’and ‘Rasa Ahara Kawala’ and ‘Te Pan Sadai’ .

The use of Ginger’s voice especially for old Sinhala songs was a welcome change. She surely has done a good job of it. The Royal Thomian Carnival organised by the old school boys association living abroad with an aptly name called “Exiles” was to celebrate S. Thomas’ 125th anniversary.

Soon after launching the CD, Rajiv Sebastian left for Dubai and Abu Dhabi to play with “Aquarius” and straight from there back at home for a dinner dance at ‘Earls’, where he performs with his band.

On the 25th of March he took off for another show in Kuwait- where he performed for the second time and ended up with an invitation to be there by the end of the year for another show.

Apart for the show in London with the band “Sunflower” held at the Country Club in early March, the Jordan tour where he performed is “much rewarding” for Rajiv. Within a span of eight days four shows were performed. The busy schedule apart, much more is on the cards. On top of the list is a show with Annesley Malewana. Two more CD’s are also to be released.

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