Asanka Jayawardena is a versatile keyboardist and a vocalist who can handle any kind of song and is ready to take a challenge to branch out to different fields in the music industry.
Asanka followed the basics in music with Dilup Gabadamudalige in 1999. He started professionally in 2000 playing a contract at the GOH with the band Shine. Later contracts at Hilton, Mount Royal, Triton, Palm Garden, Eden, Blue Water, Austasia, MGM, Bally’s & Bellagio, while playing with bands he also performs as an one man keyboardist covering weddings & other private functions, he further displayed his versatile keyboard abilities on the popular TV entertainment programme SAVANATA VADANAK for three consecutive years. 2007-2008-2009
Bands he has played with are ‘Shine’ 2000 – 2003, Original ‘Heat’ with Janath 2004 – 2005, ‘Breeze’ 2005 – 2006, ‘Water’ 2006 – to date, ‘Judy & Scintillate’ - 2010 to date. With the full band ‘Water’ he plays at three contracts in Colombo, with ‘Judy & Scintillate’ they perform as a quartet with Asanka on keyboards/vocals and Samudra Devanarayana on guitar/vocals backing the popular mother and daughter combination Kanthie & Judy de Silva. He is one of the most sort after keyboardists engaged in work all seven days of the week.
Talking about taking on challenges… being a commercialized musician playing mostly popular English, Sinhala and Hindi songs, Kanthie de Silva veteran Jazz singer spotted Asanka’s potential and perseverance as a musician and suggested him to back Kanthie and Judy at the Jazz Unlimited Session.
On the 4th September he made his début appearance at the Jazz Unlimited Session playing alongside Timal Jayamane and Royle Andrews two more experienced jazz musicians joined in by Basil Paiva and Rashid Abdur Rahman together with Samudra Devanarayana on guitar. He proved to be a true live musician playing the piano and keyboards handling difficult songs such as This Masquerade, Fly me to the moon, Shadow of your smile, Mas que Nada, Blue Moon, Blue Skies, Night Birds by Shakatak, Night and Day by Cole Porter, Caravan by Duke Ellington...etc… he was well received and highly complimented by experienced jazz musicians, regular members and guests present at the event.
With this era where lots of solo keyboardists are depending on midi files Asanka has mastered the keyboard he uses and plays 100% live music.
Take a break at Clancy’s with Wendo
Take a break from the hassles of day to day life and step into Clancy’s Irish Pub and Restaurant at CH &FC.
It is a prestigious club which has entertained its patrons for more than 14 years.
Clancy’s Pub has become a popular spot now with Wendo performing live music on keyboards every Sunday evening. Clancy’s restaurant offers a different environment to different people with Irish and Western cuisine by International Chef Clint Williams. The restaurant overlooks the CH and FC grounds. The Restaurant recently opened doors for lunch serving the most delightful Irish menus which are divine and rich in flavor and reasonably priced.
The club also provides a relaxing and chilled out atmosphere in the evenings to host corporate or personal parties and functions. At night the tables turn over and the heat gets on when Colombo’s party goers hit the area. The place transforms into a typical club like zone with fabulous lighting and music and is a definite place to party and chill.
Majestic to get three more cinemas
A good news to cinema lovers, the Majestic City complex will soon add three more cinema halls to the existing newly refurbished Majestic cinema on its fourth floor.
Following the world trend of multi-complex cinema halls system, the move by Ceylon Theatres private limited would enable to release several latest movies at once and would attract many theatre goers to country’s capital.
One of the leading cinema theatres in Colombo, Majestic was reopened recently with Bollywood blockbuster ‘Ra- One’ after a refurbishment.
Two-weeks long refurbishment included replacing a new screen and new seating facility with a cost of Rs. 10 million.
The Majestic cinema housed in the Majestic city complex was opened in 1995 and it was later leased out to a different movie distributor. In 2002 Ceylon Theatres Ltd took it back and refurbished with dolby digital sound system and opened with the release of ‘The Lord of the Ring’. |
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