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*Araw ng
Dabaw - Davao City
A week-long celebration of the charter anniversary
of the city beginning 16 March. Activities include
civic/military parade, agro-industrial fair, sports
competition, tribal/cultural shows and beauty
pageant.
*Pasayaw Festival - Canlaon City, Negros Oriental
A harvest festival featuring agricultural/trade fair
concerts and beauty contest being held every 10-19
March. Festival highlight is the street dancing of
participants, dressed in colorful costumes made from
indigenous materials.
*Kaamulan Festival - Malaybalay, Bukidnon
Expect the Bukidnons to go tribal when the streets
of Malaybalay take on that familiar fiesta theme.
Banners, bandaritas and beer will be the norm, as
well as the sweet, haunting sound of native music.
All this revolves around the Kaamulan Park, just
behind the Provincial Capitol, where most of the
activities will be performed.
*Kisi-Kisi Festival - Negros Occidental
Kisi Kisi Dance Parade is a dance parade which
stands for the way fishes flip-flops and twitches as
they are hauled during the bountiful harvest. It
starts at 1:00 in the afternoon where participating
groups wear costumes and headdresses adorned with
multi-colored shells & fish nets while props include
bamboo poles and baskets used for fishing. Before
the dance parade a re-enactment of the Sinulod is
being shown wherein the town’s patron Sr. Sto. Niño
saved the village from the moro raids. Held every 25
March.
*Moriones Festival - Marinduque
A festival of the "Moriones", the colorfully garbed
and masked Roman Soldiers and centurions, culminates
in the re-enactment of the beheading of Longinus.
This is being held every Lenten Season.
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