Dance
the body music with ‘Misty’
Misty, the popular dance band will come alive on New Year's Eve
Dinner Dance at the Water's Edge with the Gypsies. Apart from the
New Year's Eve Dance, the band will be in action at the Millennium
I.T. Dance at the Colombo Plaza on December 18 and number of Christmas
gigs during the coming weeks.
The
band Misty has played more than twenty five dances and number of
concerts in and out Sri Lanka during this year, making the most
sought out dance band of the year.
'Tour
to France in May and perform at the at the Cannes Film Festival
("Festival du Cannes")along with Channa Upuli and their
dance troupe was the most outsatanding event in our musical career.
I think we were the only Sri Lankan band to have played at Cannes
Film Festival.' Said Ranjith Rupasinghe, the leader of the band.
The
band is about eight years old, the limelight, and the popularity
they have gained is much high. 'ITB in Berlin in March was a big
event too and SriLankan Airlines new destinations launch ceremonies
in China and Thailand in June were some of the outstanding events'
he said.
Misty
has played for more than 10 SriLankan Airlines events in Frankfurt,
Paris, Dubai, Pakistan , India and most recently in Thailand and
China. said the leader. Misty stepped in to the Sri Lankan music
scene in 1998 as a trio. Ranjith along with his pals Marlon Mendis
and Viraj were together for nearly two years, before they decided
to go as a full band.
Tour
to Bahrain to perform the annual Sri Lanka Club Gala Evening at
the Crown Plaza Hotel and Tour to U.S.A. to perform at the annual
Ananda / Visakha College "Unity ball" in New York in September
and October were other top tours in 2005. 'We also played at the
Lanka Lions Night at the Ramada Renaissance in Dubai last month'
Ranjith said.
St.
Peter’s College ball, DSS Dance, Trinity Dance, Old Bens and
Mahanama Dance along with MAS Holdings, Mardi Gras Ball, Access,
Architect Dance, Zonta Club Dance, Apparel Ball, Architect Ball,
HSBC Ball, Uva Club Dance, Freight Link Dance, Tea Traders Ball
and Union Assurance Ball were the major dances they have played
in this year.
Ranjith
some time goes solo for gigs 'but I always give preference to the
band and we work as a team' he said.
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