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Festival Of Drums
The Festival of Drums is celebrated in Sri-Lanka annually. The event is somewhat equal to UK's Glastonbury Festival and includes concerts in Kandy and Colombo. This event attracts world's most talented master drummers and percussionists. The island celebrates its 2500-year association with drums, an intrinsic part of their culture and heritage. The festival showcases at least 14 different groups and artists from 12 different including Bill Cobham (USA), The Dhol Foundation (UK and India) and the Drummers of Burundi. The festival is a beautiful coordination of the local drumming and dancing performance that have a distinct Sri Lankan flavor, reflecting the huge cultural diversity of traditions throughout the country.
In the year 2005, the festival featured an outdoor concert at the Royal Peradeniya Botanical Gardens in Kandy; four indoor theater concerts at Bishop's College Auditorium and four Club Night Sessions at The Gallery, Beira Lake in the capital Colombo. Workshops were also held during the day at The Gallery, so that the festival-goers can have the opportunity to meet and learn from the artists.
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 The main outdoor area for the festival is the lively "festival field" on Colombo's Galle Face Green. This lavishly decorated space also features a Global Village of crafts, textiles and musical instruments, as well as an exciting selection of Sri Lankan, Asian and other international cuisine.
The WOMAD Foundation organizes the Festival of Drums right from the year 1983 and is a registered educational charity. The festival introduces a series of educational sessions introducing the musicians who have come from different countries, to present their traditions as well as explore the traditions of Sri Lanka.This programme also provides platform for both young as well as professional musicians and singers to share their cultural heritage converges and diverges. It lends a cross curricular approach. The
educational resources and background materials created by them broaden and strengthen the curriculum. A typical festival that consists of live musical performances, workshops, stalls and events for children. Also, WOMAD has helped, revived as well as launched the careers of many world music artists. One of them being the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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