Music for dancing will be provided by Replays 6 with Sandra and Esric and the show will be hosted by Vijay Corea from Sri Lanka and Leon Belleth. The show which is being produced by the close buddy and schoolmate of Dallas, Alston Koch, will be telecast in its entirety in Sri Lanka and Canada. 
A great musician of Sri Lankan origin will celebrate his fifty years in music with an evening bound to be rich in melodic reminiscence and rhythmic nostalgia September 29 in Melbourne, Australia. He was one of the many gifted people who became a loss to Sri Lanka when the country embarked on a racial and religious paranoia.Dallas Achilles who was a member of the great jazz and band team, The Sharps, migrated to Australia and became a live wire of not only the Sri Lankan community there but also won the love, affection and admiration of his colleagues, neighbours and connoisseurs of music in the Victorian State capital Melbourne especially jazz and the popular variety. What is also admirable is the fact that The Sharps team too stayed together supportive to each other and during this long association, they have made great contribution to their kind of music.
The anniversary celebrations will be held at 90 Cathies Lane, Off High Street, Wantirna South and will begin at 7 30 PM.
As befits such a landmark evening of celebrations, renowned musicians from the most popular bands of the 50’s and 60’s will participate. They include Desmond Kelly and The Semitones, Arthur Speldewinde and The Cadets, Conrad de Silva, Ernie Walker, Claude Selvaratnam, Jimmy Peck, Elmo Mulholland, Felix Fernando, Derek Stewart, Peter Menezes, Cathy Menezes Sequeira, Milroy Passe de Silva, Chris Pietersz, Eden Pompeus and also personal guests from India, the Legendary Maestros Tommy ‘Guitar Boogie’ Smith and Bob Sheppard and some surprises too.
Music for dancing will be provided by Replays 6 with Sandra and Esric and the show will be hosted by Vijay Corea from Sri Lanka and Leon Belleth. The show which is being produced by the close buddy and schoolmate of Dallas, Alston Koch, will be telecast in its entirety in Sri Lanka and Canada.
Show inquiries could be obtained from Sandra Jackson 0431 284 854 or 9700 4135 AH, Dallas Achilles 0402 080 341 or Seeta 9551 4872, and Arthur Speldewinde 0421 094 573 or 9874 5749 AH.
The Sharps were the first dance band to hold a jazz and popular music recital in Jaffna. This was in 1964 when they sent a packed audience at the Jaffna Municipal Council Hall into a frenzied and passionate response to their music, the like of which was never heard before in this northern city.
Show inquiries could be obtained from Sandra Jackson 0431 284 854 or 9700 4135 AH, Dallas Achilles 0402 080 341 or Seeta 9551 4872, and Arthur Speldewinde 0421 094 573 or 9874 5749 AH.
The Sharps were the first dance band to hold a jazz and popular music recital in Jaffna. This was in 1964 when they sent a packed audience at the Jaffna Municipal Council Hall into a frenzied and passionate response to their music, the like of which was never heard before in this northern city.
My name is Arden Forster who was the leader and lead guitarist of "The Hezonites' who won the Beat Jamboree in 1965. I was a part of this show too, but no mention given
Has it been broadcast over the networks in Sri Lanka & Canada?
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