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| Sunday, 14 July 2002 |
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The music fraternity will undoubtedly be happy to hear that the versatile keyboardist/pianist Samantha de Silva is in Sri Lanka on a holiday away from his second home Australia. Its been quite some time since Samantha left us while performing weekly at the Trans Asia Hotel. "I am coming back to Sri Lanka after eight years and will be on a three weeks holiday" writes Samantha who holds a day job as a Warehouse Manager but continues with his music, playing four nights a week at a popular restaurant in Melbourne. He also plays at many of the Sri Lankan dinner dances and functions. A one man band Samantha uses a Technics KN 5000 keyboard with a grand piano and tell us the combination sounds really good. Once when the Driffers were on tour, they turned up at the restaurant Samantha was playing and one of them decided to sing just one song and ended up singing for half an hour! Music lovers will however remember the Aussie group White Man Can't Reggae who were in Sri Lanka for performance dates. Well Samantha has played with them for many dances. "There is a lot of work for solo performers and Duos" continues Samantha "and what is satisfying is that you get an excellent audience patronage and response when you are playing. People here (Melbourne) do not want you to play top 40 all the time, they will appreciate whatever you play be it from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. "I really enjoy playing here" concludes Samantha de Silva. Hope he will be able to exchange memorable conversational chords with his musician friends over here and will we be able to catch an act of his? We wonder! |
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