• MEBUYAN artists win awards at the annual World Music Competition in Davao City, Philippines

    30Aug
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    MEBUYAN’s Maan Chua and Geejay Arriola won 2nd place and 3rd place, respectively, at the Tunog Mindanao Annual World Music Competition held in Davao City on August 18, 2009. Top 10 finalists included MEBUYAN’s Gauss Obenza and stalwarts of the alternative music scene in Mindanao–Popong Landero, Frank Englis and Cesar Padilla, who won first place.

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  • The Third Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival

    29Aug
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    [MEBUYAN note: Dan Godston invited Geejay Arriola as Artistic Director of Mebuyan to participate in Chicago Arts Calling. Deepening discussions conducted online led to the collaboration with Renee Baker who initially chose two of Geejay's compositions but ended up choosing to work on Geejay's co-musician Paolo Sisi's award-winning "Mag-iban Kita." This "last-minute" change was not reflected in the press release below and the Chicago Arts Calling website, but Geejay mentioned this in the live phone call during Renee's performance.]

    EVENT:
    U.S. and abroad. These collaborations will be prepared or improvised, and some performances will involve live feeds between Chicago and elsewhere.

    Among the scheduled projects are: a Chicago-based musician/composer collaborating with a composer from the Philippines, and a Chicago-based musician collaborating with a British visual artist. Venues for CCAF3 include Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery, The Velvet Lounge, Black Rock Pub & Kitchen, Heaven Gallery, Little Black Pearl Art & Design Center, WNUR (Northwestern University), Peter Jones Gallery, 32nd&Urban Gallery, AV-aerie, Café Mestizo, and other locations.

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  • ‘Pagdiriwang’ wins world music fest

    21Aug
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    ‘Pagdiriwang’ wins world music fest

    Cesario Padilla of Iligan City bagged the grand prize in the 2009 Kadayawan Festival’s Tunog Mindanaw World Music Festival during the final competition last August 18, Tuesday at the NCCC Mall.

    Padilla, who has won various regional and national songwriting contests, beat nine other semi-finalists with his entry “Pagdiriwang”, which he describes as “an invitation to celebrate life by love to all forms of life on Earth”. He won P100,000.

    Awards for the first and second runners up went to Marie Anathea “Maan” Chua and Ma. Cecilia “Geejay” Arriola, respectively. Both from Davao, Chua won for her entry “Itadyak”, which talks about the ancient form of worship by the tribes, praising nature, sun, the moon and other elements, and becoming one with them, while Arriola won for her entry “Iisa”, which talks about oneness in the country, in the world amid the wealth of differences and unique creations.

    Chua received P50,000 while Arriola received P30,000. The seven other finalists received P20,000 each.

    Tunog Mindanaw World Music Festival is an annual pop music composition contest that incorporates significant Mindanawon indigenous and folk music traditions.

    The finalists were judged according the following criteria: Musicality (30%), Creativity (30%), Lyrics/Literary Merits (10%), Commercial Appeal (10%), and Music Performance (20%).

    –from Mindanao Daily Mirror

    http://www.dailymirror.ph/August/pep&events08202009&01.html

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  • Tunog Mindanaw bares finalists

    12Aug
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    Tunog Mindanaw World Music Festival, a pop music compositions contest that incorporates significant Mindanawon indigenous and folk music traditions, bares the top ten entries that made it through the final round of the competition.

    This year’s finalists and their respective composers are: “Taluktok Ng Mt. Apo” by Francisco “Frank” Englis, “Dad-A Kos Yuta” by Felipe Velez Abrogar, “Pagdiriwang“ by Cesario Padilla, “Iisa” by Ma. Cecilia “Geejay” Arriola, “Kalikasan” by Danilo Gillesania/Mark Cutad, “Itadyak” by Marie Anathea “Maan” Chua, “Sayaw Ng Pasasalamat” by Rosario “Gauss” Obenza, “Tara Na!” by Ronolfo “Popong” Landero, “Balaanong Kinaiyahan” by Kalumon Performing Ensemble/Mario Leofer Lim, and “Tahanan” by Elenita “Boots” Dumlao.

    Criteria for judging are Musicality 50%, Creativity 30%, and Commercial Appeal 20%.

    All ten finalists will be performing their entries live during the public performance and final judging on August 18, 2009, 5:00 PM at the NCCC Mall.

    - from Kadayawan Official Website http://www.kadayawan.com/?page=news&newsID=38

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