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Music of Philippine Festivals and Theatrical Forms

The document summarizes several major festivals celebrated in the Philippines: 1) The Ati-Atihan Festival honors the Santo Nino with colorful costumes and tribal dancing to drum music. Festivalgoers encourage the dancers and celebrate for a week annually. 2) The Sinulog Festival also honors the Santo Nino with a grand street parade imitating native dances of Cebu. Participants call out and believe their prayers will be heard. 3) The Kadayawan Festival celebrates the harvest with floats of fruits and flowers and costumes. It originated from thanksgiving rituals of local tribes and features the icons of Mt. Apo and durian fruit.

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Music of Philippine Festivals and Theatrical Forms

The document summarizes several major festivals celebrated in the Philippines: 1) The Ati-Atihan Festival honors the Santo Nino with colorful costumes and tribal dancing to drum music. Festivalgoers encourage the dancers and celebrate for a week annually. 2) The Sinulog Festival also honors the Santo Nino with a grand street parade imitating native dances of Cebu. Participants call out and believe their prayers will be heard. 3) The Kadayawan Festival celebrates the harvest with floats of fruits and flowers and costumes. It originated from thanksgiving rituals of local tribes and features the icons of Mt. Apo and durian fruit.

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MUSIC OF PHILIPPINE

FESTIVALS AND THEATRICAL


FORMS
Claire E. Ogue
Teacher I
Festivals of the Philippines
Ati-Atihan Festival
• The Ati-atihan Festival is known as the wildest of the Philippine
festivals which means “make-believe Atis” wherein participants
portray the natives of Kalibo, Aklan called, “Ati or Aetas”.
• It is a week-long festival held annually every third week of
January that consists of a tribal dance parade with drum music,
costumes and indigenous accessories to honor the Santo Nino
or the Holy Christ Jesus.
• People cheer and shout “Hala Bira!” and “Viva Santo Nino!” to
encourage enthusiasm and continuous dancing for the duration
of the festival.
ATI-ATIHAN FESTIVAL
Sinulog Festival
• The Sinulog Festival is an annual cultural and religious festival
held on the third Sunday of January in the city of Cebu to honor
the Santo Nino, commemorate the Filipino rejection of their
former religious views, and acceptance of Christianity.
• This festival is famous among local and international tourists for
its grand street parade which imitates the type of dancing done
by the natives of Cebu before they were baptized as Christians.
• The petitioners often yell out ‘Pit Senior”. They flock to the
festival for prayer requests and thanksgiving while dancing,
believing that Santo Nino will hear them.
SINULOG FESTIVAL
Kadayawan Festival
• Kadayawan Festival is held in Davao every third week of August in
celebration of thanksgiving for good harvest with parade floats of fresh
fruits and flowers, and street dancing with colorful tribal costumes, and
accessories.
• Kadayawan comes from the word “Madayaw” meaning thanksgiving for
nature’s gift; warm and friendliness greeting; and to describe things that
are good, valuable, superior, and beautiful.
• This celebration originated from tribal festivals of the “Lumad” and Muslim
tribes of Davao in the 70’s featuring the dances and rituals of thanksgiving.
• It used to be called “Duwaling” to promote Davao’s famous icons: the
highest peak of the country “Mt. Apo”; King of fruits “Durian”, and queen of
orchids “Waling-waling”.
KADAYAWAN FESTIVAL
Tawo-Tawo Festival
• The Tawo-tawo Festival in Bayawan is annually celebrated on the
month of February. It marks another season of bountiful harvest in
the city of Bayawan. This festival is a thanksgiving celebration as
well to the patron saint of the city, who is Santo Tomas de
Villanueva.
• The term “tawo-tawo” literally means person-person (or person
like). The tawo-tawo, better known today as scarecrows, drove the
crows or maya birds away making the town happy again with the
harvest. Of course, farmers didn’t want to kill any of these lovely
crows or maya birds so they so they decided to invent something to
drive them away.
Tawo-Tawo Festival

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