{"id":23977,"date":"2018-02-24T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=23977"},"modified":"2018-02-24T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:01:48","slug":"papare-band-melbourne-taste-sri-lankan-culture-story-marie-pietersz-photos-courtesy-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/papare-band-melbourne-taste-sri-lankan-culture-story-marie-pietersz-photos-courtesy-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Papare Band Melbourne &#8211; a taste of Sri Lankan culture &#8211; Story by Marie Pietersz &#8211; Photos courtesy of Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Papare Band Melbourne &#8211; a taste of Sri Lankan culture &#8211; Story by Marie Pietersz &#8211; Photos courtesy of Band<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23986\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23978\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"402\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23979\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23980\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"339\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23981\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"398\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23982\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23983\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"446\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23984\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"404\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23985\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"369\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23987\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"406\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23988\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Papare-Band-Melbourne-a-taste-of-Sri-Lankan-culture-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Papare Band Melbourne &#8211; a taste of Sri Lankan culture:\u00a0<\/strong>Story by Marie Pietersz<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Photos courtesy of Band<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">This year the Papare Band\u00a0made an appearance at the Australia Day parade in Melbourne at the invitation of the Consular General of Sri Lanka for Victoria, W.G.S. Prasanna.\u00a0The Sri Lankan community sees the band as a significant part of the Sri Lankan culture in sport and this has now extended to other Australian events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Papare Band Melbourne is\u00a0a well-known feature of sideline entertainment at Australian cricket matches. They now have a presence\u00a0in the Australian sporting calendar, performing at AFL and Soccer League games and in demand by Councils for community events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Dihan Nammuni Dewage is the leader of the Band and has this to say on how it started:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">&#8220;I first took the trumpet to the MCG but security wouldn&#8217;t let me take it in because there was a policy of no instruments in the stadium. They said I could leave the instrument with them\u00a0and collect it on my way out. So I did, and when outside\u00a0I decided I would play it on my way to the train station. I played one of the most popular Sri Lankan bailas, Surangani. A crowd followed me and started to dance. We stopped at the car park and I played a few more songs. That&#8217;s when we thought of forming the band, having found five instrument players (trumpeter, saxophonist, two drummers and a cymbalist). Now we have grown to twenty players and we get invited to entertain at\u00a0many public events. We also perform at private events, like parties and\u00a0weddings.\u00a0We do encourage anyone with talent and passion to come and join us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The Papare Band Melbourne has Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts for those who would like to get in touch with them and see what they are doing. The contact is Dihan\u00a0on\u00a00432 027 704. The band profile brochure is attached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12891 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marie-Pietersz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Story by Marie Pietersz<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object class=\"vanilla-pdf-embed\" data=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ProfileReportPW-3.pdf#page=1&view=FitH\" type=\"application\/pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\">\n    <p><a href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ProfileReportPW-3.pdf\">Download the PDF file .<\/a><\/p>\n<\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papare Band Melbourne &#8211; a taste of Sri Lankan culture &#8211; Story by Marie Pietersz &#8211; Photos courtesy of Band &nbsp; Papare Band Melbourne &#8211; a taste of Sri Lankan culture:\u00a0Story by Marie Pietersz Photos courtesy of Band This year the Papare Band\u00a0made an appearance at the Australia Day parade in Melbourne at the invitation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2548,2201],"tags":[3500,3499,3498],"class_list":{"0":"post-23977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-home","9":"category-marie-pietersz","10":"tag-dihan-nammuni-dewage","11":"tag-papare-band-melbourne","12":"tag-papare-band-melbourne-a-taste-of-sri-lankan-culture-story-by-marie-pietersz-photos-courtesy-of-band","13":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Papare Band Melbourne - a taste of Sri Lankan culture - Story by Marie Pietersz - Photos courtesy of Band<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This year the Papare Band\u00a0made an appearance at the Australia Day parade in Melbourne at the invitation of the Consular General of Sri Lanka for Victoria, W.G.S. 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