Evo & Grace: The WanderLusts

Dong Abay It rains hard that night of July 31, the last day of the month but like music, its unstoppable and didn’t dampen our spirit to catch Bandang 90’s concert, one of the two shows to close the weeklong celebration of “Linggo ng Musikang Pilipino 2019” celebration at Historia Bar in Quezon City. Head by Organisasyon ng Pilipinong Mang-aawit with National Commission for Culture And Arts, the festival aims to promote awareness and appreciation of all forms of Filipino music through many platforms, it started last July 20 and it covers different music venues nationwide from Metro Manila up to Davao City. Dong, Cooky and Wency Bandang 90’s feature four OPM icons of my youth, the band we look up and that music who give us joy and inspiration back in the days, Wency Cornejo of the band After Image, Color It Red and Cooky Chua, Dong Abay of the band Yano, and Barbie Almabis of Barbie’s Cradle. Wency Cornejo First to perform is Wency, with his opening song Mangara...

Team Candon Music Festival 2019 From the City of Arts and Culture in the whole Ilocos Sur, a new summer festival is born combining modern to classical music that features more than 30 artists, bands and performers all over the country, it is the first ever Candon Music Festival scheduled this May 23 to 25, 2019 at the Bagani Campo Concert Grounds. The three day festival is headed by National Artist for Music, Ryan Cayabyab as the festival Director,  who see the event as a opportunity for the young minds to appreciate music in different genre, plus he include in the Festival some Ilocano songs to be perform by different orchestra including his own Ryan Cayabyab Singers, plus two notable Ilocano singers to perform, Noel Cabangon and Davey Langit. Mr. C aka Ryan Cayabyab, National Artist for Music “If there is anything about this festival, for me overwhelming kasi tatlong gabi na iba ibang genre kada gabi ng performances, iba ibang artist, iba ibang persuasions, and ...

It was a long day for us last June 20, 2015, but the music keeps us alive until wee hours, because we enjoy every single performance for the annual Fete De La Musique, the world known convergence of music artist in different genre, in line with the celebration of French Month in Makati City. At around 4pm we arrive at A-Space in Makati City, it’s a jampacked crowd but and still we find a space for us, most of the artist performing are from the indie circuit, but musicality they are so great and you can really feel their passion even for 3 to 5 songs that we never heard, only until that night.  Among the performances that blown us away are from Reese Lansangan whom we think can be called the Taylor Swift of Indie Music, her poetry in lyrics is amazing.  Manskee is a crowd pleaser, this man really have the heart in his music, and its catchy I tell you. And of course from Basti Artadi of rock band called Wolfgang, his machismo gesture with surprise humor is really a pl...