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.

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.