--by John Christopher M. Datiles
(Click the link above and hit play button for the
musical score)
You won’t have to go to Bacolod to try a Maskarra
festival experience. It’s just within your reach, within the bounds of your
stingy personality, within the corners of your up-to-date resources. Have you gone
to PUP last August 7, 2013? Well, that’s a missed one if you haven’t. I just
wanna share a Masskara festival experience in PUP. Lemme.
It is the 12th Foundation Anniversary of the Polytechnic
University of the Philippines – College of Communication that made me brought myself
in there and joined the gaiety. And as part of their annual celebration, there
was a streetdance organized. Arrayed in bright colors, participants dance to
their graces with the festivals they are representing of. Caught my ear was the
musical score of the Masskara Festival group from BABRC I-1N. Energy.
Liveliness. That suggests the festival of Masskara. (Because, indeed, there is
no such festival that hasn’t merrymaking or dull-spirited festivity.)And the
lovely smiles that would attract and make you show yours too, it’s such an
experience worth watching. It does not only highlight the beauty of our land
but touches our socio-cultural values.
Did you have a visit on the link above? The music is
something away from the current genres we have at present, isn’t it? From a
folk music, it transcends to an upbeat, modern one. A proof that tastes of
people differs from time to time, generation by generation. “Kari na sa Bacolod kag magsinadya kita sa MassKara!” (Come
to Bacolod and let’s have fun at MassKara Festival!), as the song says and it’s
like you can never refuse to such invitation.
We look for (mostly) several foreign songs that are
reiterated time to time in radios. We get hooked at it. We forget the ones we
are rooted upon. But thanks, we have events like this, for the unremembered
will be remember, the tones that will linger in our soul, that once bound our fellows
as whole, -- Masskara Festival, its music, will be ours in our home. “Masskara, Pasigarbo kanato ini!”(Masskara,
This is Our Pride!)
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