Sri Lankan musicians at Brent Town Hall
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Sri Lankan musicians at Brent Town Hall
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 28 Jun 2008
The Brent Town Hall can be hired for all sorts of functions.Today it was transformed as a Hindu Temple for a Sri Lankan Wedding. These players of the nathaswaram (it sounds like a rustic bombarde, or shawm - very loud!) and the thavil (drum/contrasting percussion) performed with enormous skill and invention for around two and a half hours throughout the ceremony.I heard later that they had been flown in from Germany specially just before the wedding, and only just arrived in time.
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