Almost recovered from Gongsters Paradise: A New Force. Probably should share some highlights here soon
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Almost recovered from Gongsters Paradise: A New Force. Probably should share some highlights here soon
Gratitude to everyone who was part of Gongsters Paradise: A New Force. Magic was abound and memories were forged like bronze gongs ready to be struck in times of storm.
Expect many surprising moments at #GongstersParadise this Saturday. Tickets still available.
What would Lapu Lapu do
Sk8 or die
She looked up Kapwa and her heart woke up.
Woke up and realized the music festival I am co-producing is in ten days
Thrilled to announce that my college kulintang ensemble is fully enrolled after only three days. Feeling grateful and excited.
Thank you Racers!
Still a few tickets left that include the Dear Flor package but now to taste the flavors and hear the gongs all on May 3 #GongstersParadise
www.eventbrite.com/e/gongsters-...
Rest in power, Pilita Corrales (1939-2025). Her voice, acting and comedy defined television for generations of Filipino viewers. Your legacy lives on.
*Credits to Carlo Orosa.
If you are thinking a music festival that featured Filipino culture and its evolving iterations would be a paradise, you found the right account. #GongstersParadise
When I discovered Kulintang music, a part of me thought I was in a position to somehow be a part of “saving” a dying tradition.
What I didn’t understand is that kulintang music thrived even in 2005, evidenced in the existence of kulintang music festivals held regularly across kulintang country.
It squashes then stomps on it then boosts the sub frequencies and squashes it all again
Talking non-stop about kulintang music when you can buy a ticket to the only kulintang music festival of its kind #GongstersParadise
www.eventbrite.com/e/gongsters-...
Aga Mayo Butocan trained a generation’s worth of kulintang players coming from UP Diliman. She developed cypher notation still used by many today and does not let a student get away with bad habits especially in posture. Her playing style is lively, smooth, & melodic.
youtu.be/OTZ_4fpg0oQ?...
Tusa Montes is the go-to session musician in Manila when a project calls for quality kulintang, working with artists like Nadine Lustre and Mishka Adams. As an educator she has trained a generation of World Music practitioners at UP Diliman or from workshops far and wide.
youtu.be/51t92E8ezqU?...
Brubeck lived in the region I grew up
Titania Buchholdt may be the most prolific kulintang player in America, studying, performing, teaching, and touring kulintang music since the beginning of the contemporary Filipino American arts movement. Her style is commanding & she holds an unmatched depth of stories.
youtu.be/aTOP1gjbwzI?...
Leslie Damaso introduces kulintang kundiman jazz to the Midwest with her double album Sirena which was also considered for a Grammy.
She reflects on her experience developing her sound on the frontier before performing to the Filipinx community at #GongstersParadise
youtu.be/pZfQjWeocCI?...
I didn’t whip or nene
Motivated to find the same misfortune
Caroline Julia Cabading keeps kulintang, jazz, blues, and Kalinga music alive on the streets of old Manilatown in San Francisco.
Her album Sugilanon weaves all these music styles together wrapped around a Filipina American story and was considered for a Grammy.
youtu.be/uLmV6Z7FMaE?...
Kim Kalanduyan holds a family tradition of kulintang music despite living thousands of miles from kulintang country.
Received with joyous ovation, she non-verbally announces her homecoming in Mindanao and pledges herself to the Kalanduyan tradition of master musicianship.
youtu.be/oACJ-gBhZsk?...
That’s pretty much where this current interest exploded
I see eyes in a riverbed
My daughter is now obsessed with Bakunawa
Sold. Bring on the flood!
The flames of creativity and artistry carries on in kulintang country as well as the diaspora in the hands of women.
One of the most successful contemporary Kulintang acts is the 21st Century is Pantayo, all women, and no shortage of gongs.
youtu.be/yWvM7VQ647s?...
A story told to me about the origin of kulintang music is a tale that involves a river spirit sighting.
A river spirit embodied as a woman,
playing kulintang music on river stones arranged in a graduated row.
She vanished from sight but her music was so memorable a whole tradition was birthed.
