A GROUP of boys in Negri Sembilan who went viral online playing Indian folk music with makeshift instruments has received proper urumi instruments, thanks to Datuk R. Ramanan, Makkal Osai reported.
The boys and their parents met with the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Deputy Minister’s special officer Vickneswaran Gunasekaran, who handed over the instruments worth more than RM5,000.
The father of three of the boys, identified as Manimaran, said the six boys are from the same neighbourhood in Pertang, who go to the same primary and secondary schools.
The boys, who are very keen about urumi music, began making their own instruments with tin cans, rubber bands, tree branches and whatever other materials available.
They became so good at playing the instruments that at one point, they were invited to play at the Maduraiveeran Temple festival in the area, which they did for 49 days.
● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
