Aliwan Fiesta takes to the streets this week
Aliwan Fiesta takes to the streets of Manila and Pasay once more on April 11-13. Twenty street-dancing contingents from all over the country will compete.
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Aliwan Fiesta takes to the streets of Manila and Pasay once more on April 11-13. Twenty street-dancing contingents from all over the country will compete.
What once was the dusty backwoods in the northern reaches of the Davao region is now a commercial and cultural hub: Tagum City, home of the country’s fastest-growing arts festival, Musikahan sa Tagum.
The Malasimbo Music & Arts Festival this year is headlined by two music greats: reggae artist Jimmy Cliff and soul singer Joss Stone.
Sunny Cebu is brightest and wildest when it celebrates its annual Sinulog Festival. Through the streets of the city, fields of colorful, feathered masks and headdresses abound. Dominating as well the urbanscape were street dancers, dressed in glittering costumes and bearing painted shields, who flocked the parade routes.
The feast of Santo Niño de Cebu was celebrated with the usual devotion and splendor. An estimated 2.7 million people joined the procession or watched along the sidelines of its route.
Lighted pyramids and cathedrals, glittering temples and pagodas, glowing lanterns and Disneyland characters—they came together to bathe this city in light and color as the Christmas season officially began here on Saturday night.
When I told my bellicose and history-conscious cousin, the architect Toti Mendoza, that I was going to Tacloban, capital city of Leyte, he proclaimed: “Good! Will send you excerpts of how MacArthur’s staff treated Sergio Osmeña.”
Just as easily as they party, Filipinos find an excuse to dance—for leisure or entertainment, as a manifestation of worship or as a social valve for relationships.
When I breezed into the Peninsula Hotel Manila, I knew instantly it was a Citibank affair. The world-renowned Citibank was hosting a thanksgiving dinner for its clients, hoping for continued partnership and stronger ties with them for another year.
We got a fairly good idea of the audience for classical music in Calbayog City in Western Samar with the opening of the First Samar International Music Festival on Oct. 29 with violinist Gina Medina and pianist Mary Anne Espina.
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