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On July 25, 1987, President Corazon Aquino promulgated the Administrative Code of the Philippines. [1] Chapter 7 of this code specified a list of ten nationwide regular holidays and two nationwide special days and provided that the President may proclaim any local special day for a particular date, group or place.
The National Music Competitions for Young Artists Foundation or NAMCYA was founded in the Philippines in 1973. It was created by virtue of President Ferdinand Marcos ' Presidential Proclamation No. 1173, which declares the period between November 26 and December 12 every year as National Week for Young Artists. [ 1]
Dinagyang. The Dinagyang Festival is a religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines, held annually on the fourth Sunday of January in honor of Santo Niño, the Holy Child. It is one of the largest festivals in the Philippines, drawing hundreds of thousands to over a million visitors every year. [ 1][ 2]
The orchestra traveled to Baguio to host a music festival in 1940 and 1941. War and post-war. During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in 1942, Zipper was briefly detained by the Japanese as a "political prisoner" and the Manila Symphony Orchestra refused to perform as a protest and hid their instruments.
The Philippine Association of the Record Industry ( Filipino: Kapisanan ng Industriya ng Plaka ng Pilipinas, abbreviated as PARI) is a non-profit and private trade organization, that represents the recording industry distributors in the Philippines. The PARI was formed on February 10, 1972, and today is composed of 14 corporate members and 13 ...
Brown Academy of Music is a performance-based music school located in Cebu City, Philippines. [1] It is located on the 2nd Floor of Northgate Centre in Banilad on Gov. M. Cuenco Avenue, across the street from Gaisano Country Mall and next to University of Cebu-Banilad. [2] The school serves as one of the premier sources of music education in ...
The festival is viewed by some people living outside the Philippines, notably Filipino-Americans who call themselves "Filipinx", as "controversial", allegedly for the use of blackface. [ 5 ] [ 9 ] This has been disproved, as the coloring of the face and body of non-natives is an Ati-atihan tradition that predates the blackface phenomenon in the ...
Manila sound. Manila sound is a musical genre that began in the mid-1970s in the city of Manila. The genre flourished and peaked in the mid to late-1970s. It is often considered the "bright side" of the Philippine martial law era and has influenced most of the modern genres in the country, being the forerunner to OPM .