PARAI MELAK KOOTHU

PARAIMELA KOOTHU: This is wide-spread in Mattakalappu. In this there is just dance alone and no songs. In this dance-tradition the drummers who play the ‘parai’ accompanying the music produced by the combination of the instruments Sornaali, Parai and the Silambu. The findings of several research-studies hold that the source of the dance-form called Kandian Dance which is popular among the Sinhalese has come from this Paraimela-Koothu.