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December 23 – R&B band South Border reunited with past and current members Jay Durias, Luke Mejares, and Duncan Ramos in the first live concert in the country since the COVID-19 pandemic at the Mall of Asia Arena. [9] [10] December 26 – alternative rock band UDD vocalist and keyboard Armi Millare has left from the band after 17 years. [11]
The festival consists of religious processions and street-parades, showcasing themed floats, dancing groups wearing colorful costumes, marching bands, and people sporting face and body paints. The street parade is known as Sadsad , which is also what the locals call their way of dancing where the foot is momentarily dragged along the ground in ...
There are more than 42,000 known major and minor festivals in the Philippines, the majority of which are in the barangay (village) level. Due to the thousands of town, city, provincial, national, and village fiestas in the country, the Philippines has traditionally been known as the Capital of the World's Festivities.
This is a list of notable Philippine-based choirs, orchestras and musical bands. Bands listed fall under any of these main Philippine music styles: Philippine folk, Manila sound, Pinoy reggae, Pinoy pop, Pinoy rock and Pinoy hip hop, as well as the jazz and ska music genres.
Taking their cue from the marching bands or from a recording, they will dance for hours till noon to the tune of joyful music as they wave their wands in the air. In the province of Batangas, this version performed in the municipality of Ibaan consists of a lady who acts as the Kapitana, similar to Saboy, but accompanied with two male escorts. [52]
Buling-Buling Festival is a religious and cultural event celebrated annually in Pandacan, Manila in the Philippines on the third Saturday of January, in time with the town's fiesta, to honor its patron saint, Santo Niño — a wooden image of child Jesus Christ. It is a festival of street dancing where its people, Pandaqueños who are well ...
In the Philippines, drum and lyre corps is a marching ensemble consisting of strictly percussion instruments and a color guard section. The drum and lyre corps originated in the Philippines, as an economical alternative to regular brass bands or drum and bugle corps.
January 4 – President Duterte signs Republic Act No. 11510, institutionalizing the alternative learning system (ALS). [2] [3]January 18 – The Department of National Defense announces its unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines which took effect three days earlier over claims that the New People's Army is recruiting members in the universities' campuses.