JMF at Jaffna Municipal Grounds

Bringing back the cultural renaissance to historic northern capital, the Jaffna Musical Festival 2013 will feature Sri Lanka's fascinating, diverse musical heritage along with musical groups from different parts of the globe together when the second biannual musical extravaganza stage at the Jaffna municipal ground on March 1 and 2.

The festival will also cater to classical music lovers showcasing Hindustani, Carnatic, Orchesrtal, Brass and Opera music styles. Local classical musicians will share the stage with veteran Hindustani and Carnatic artists to blend distant traditions.

The concert will also feature contemporary music at its best with experimental groups who brought Sri Lankan music to new dimensions. Some of the internationally acclaimed local groups will entertain the Jaffna crowd with their masterpieces of folk fusion, percussion works and improvisational jazz music giving tradition a touch of novelty.

Music groups from Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Norway and Palestine will bring international essence to the event interlinking far cultures trough the universal language of music. The foreign group performances withhold their nations' unique identities were greatly cherished by the local audience at the previous Jaffna Music Festival, leaving testimony to similarities of expressing human emotions such as happiness, sorrow and love though they belong to different backgrounds.

Apart from the evening main stage concerts from 5 pm to 10.30 pm on both days, local and international groups will join in morning performances from 9.00am to 12.00pm on four stages dedicated to folk, classical, contemporary music and children's activities.