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P-Pop takes the stage as Ant Savvy Creatives and Entertainment Inc. produce the first Tugatog Filipino Music Festival happening this June 18, 2022. Get to see all your favorite P-pop groups in one stage featuring Alamat, BGYO, Bini, Litz, MNL48, PPop Generation, Press Hit Play, VXON, 1st One and many more. Catch a whole array of fresh takes on your favorite songs plus special artist collaborations within the line-up. The event will be streamed online via TicketMelon. Tickets will be available beginning March 1, 2022. Premier tickets are at Php 1,800.00. Special exclusive content is also in store for VIP ticket holders along with access to the stream priced at Php 2,700.00 per ticket. Music + Heartbeat + Peak = TUGATOG. Tugatog was born as a festival that celebrates a rising genre of Pinoy music. It’s a play on the words “tugtog” as “play,” the sound of a beat or heartbeat (tug-tug), and plus “tugatog” that means “peak” or “summit”. Tugtugan sa Tugatog. Tugatog Filipino Music Festi...

Unstoppable – that’s the word that best describes the FEU Dance Company (FDC). After the pandemic hit, schools and dance studios closed like most establishments but that did not stop the said company from creating art and immersing people in it. Company members juggled their responsibilities as family members, students, dancers, and human beings, all while being confined within their homes. On Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 4:30 P.M, the FDC will premiere LockDance, a virtual dance concert that took two years to make. It will be streamed through the FEU Center for the Arts’ YouTube Channel. LockDance features creative choreographers namely: FDC Artistic Director Eduardo Malagkit, Kevin Francisco, Carlo Padoga, Danyel Reyes, Micah Soriano, Brielle Zulueta, Angelikha Bay, Kiera Elizares, Ahren Bitong, Jahmil Dayao, Elvin Salazar, Cirus Bonifacio, Mya Samonte, and Claire Planas, and their dances that tell stories of reminiscing, contemplating, struggling,...

Nicole Laurel-Asensio with Basically Saturday Night A "musical blind date." This is how Nicole puts how she met the band Basically Saturday Night. Definitely, this is one blind date gone right. A suggestion over a video call started everything. Entering the collaborative space Basically Saturday Night fondly calls "The Lab" was a new experience for Nicole. She was new in the environment while the band had been playing for years. She did know what to expect, but they found common ground in their mutual respect for soul, jazz, and blues greats. It was natural as "good energy was traveling throughout the session," Junoy Manalo, Guitarist of Basically Saturday Night, says. Nicole's experience and Basically Saturday Night's signature sound got to know each other better as they recorded at Wildgrass Studios. The vibe ushered in the chords, melodies, and riffs while Migie Garcia's vocals complimented Nicole's. The high from their collaborative...

In the last two years of lockdown, the Friends for Cultural Concerns of the Philippines has been hard-pressed to raise funds to continue supporting its 28 student-artist-scholars. To continue a successful attempt to fundraise by means of an online recital of some of its scholars, the FCCP will feature tenor Radnel Ofalza with pianist Dr. Raul Sunico, who also chairs the Scholarship Committee, in a recital on February 5 at 8PM (Philippine time) via Zoom. Radnel, who has been a scholar of the FCCP since he was a college student at the University of Santo Tomas is now taking his Masters in voice at the Mannes School of Music in New York City. Other FCCP scholars who will participate in this online production are sopranos Athena Marsha Macatangay and Donna Klariz Baluyut. A donation of P1,000 corresponds to 1 link and can be deposited to the FCCP's Metrobank account # 292 3 29280045 3. Please email a copy of the proof of payment to: fccpoffice@yahoo.com....