Open Mic: Delon Weerasinghe and Hania Mariam


Delon Weerasinghe Reading Stand-Up Comedy (Part 2) from Indrajit Samarajiva on Vimeo.

These are two of my personal favorite performers from the Open Mic. This is Delon Weerasinghe reading (basically) stand-up comedy and Hania Mariam singing. My other fav was Harean’s Terrace From Hell Story, but I messed up the video on that. Delon is a Graetien Prize winning playwright. Here he’s reading jokes about life here, from the traffic to economic situation. His act really lightened and livened the evening, just as it had at the Galle Literary Fest. It’s very funny. Hania is a beautiful girl and singer and a dear friend of mine. Her voice is absolutely captivating and everyone loves it, and her. This is her singing ‘In The Arms Of An Angel’ by Sarah McLaughlin and ‘Silver Dagger’ by Joan Baez. Note that she hadn’t prepared everything, this is just off the top of her head after the audience insisted that she perform.

Note that you can watch these Vimeo ones in HD if your connection supports it.


Hania Mariam Singing In The Arms Of An Angel from Indrajit Samarajiva on Vimeo.

Above are actually the second bits of their performance. Below are the first bits, Delon’s For Toffee monologue and Hania’s Silver Dagger. I’m getting a bit fed up of YouTube. Think I’ll switch back to Vimeo.

Posted on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 in Art, Colombo, Music, Sri Lanka, Video.

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Comment by David Blacker
2009-02-16 10:23:16

Yup, I enjoyed those two the most.

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Comment by chandare
2009-02-16 22:32:47

suicide bomber joke was good.

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Comment by Aruna Kulatunga
2009-02-18 18:21:23

Hi Indi,

Are these videos from your LX3?

Regards,

Aruna

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Comment by indi
2009-02-19 09:04:24

Yes

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Comment by Aruna Kulatunga
2009-02-19 21:27:05

HD comes out very well. I was fortunate to listen to Hania live at Vraie’s wedding. Isnt there another open mic event on next week at Barefoot?

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Comment by indi
2009-02-20 08:23:50

We’re deciding on the time. Might be in another two weeks. Reconciling schedules you know

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Comment by Aruna Kulatunga
2009-02-20 18:26:24

Was hoping to catch it if it was next week. If not, my bad luck!

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