The Garden of Grace blog has the meatiest content on the Lang-ay Festival 2009 that I've seen so far. Photos, a video and a blog post capture a lot of the activities during the festival.
The St. Louis University Dance Troupe apparently took part in the street dancing on April 7. This Flickr photo gallery has just a few but very high quality photos.
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This is a placeholder post for the Lang-ay Festival 2009 Photos, Blogs, News and Videos. The festival has completed and there's almost no coverage in the local news. Maybe bloggers will need time to post videos and photos so I can filter those I find interesting. The above photograph was taken from the TRIBASIA.com website which I think is being considered as a spam site by Google. I'll be updating this post as data trickles in.
April 6, 2009 Video: A Bontoc Welcome to the Lang-ay Festival -
Mountain Province's biggest crowd drawer is currently on-going. The Lang-ay Festival which started on 2004 will be featuring an agro-industrial fair, tribal sports, indigenous games and exhibits, a fashion show, and cultural dance presentations including the much anticipated street dancing parade on the last day of the festival. The town of Barlig has consistently performed well in the street dancing category and will be a favorite again this year. Hoping to end Barlig's reign will be entries from Bauko, Besao, Bontoc, Natonin, Paracelis, Sabangan, Sadangga, Sagada, and Tadian. I'll definitely be rooting for Sagada to do well. E-esten yo!
Links: 2009 Lang-ay Festival Program of Activities; Lang-ay Festival Photo Gallery 1; Lang-ay Festival Photo Gallery 2; Lang-ay Festival Youtube Videos
Photo: Baguio Country Club's float featured a pharaoh's head accompanied by belly dancers. Dunkin Donuts float had giant donuts and munchkins made of flowers.
Big businesses didn't tone down on the float parade for Baguio's Panagbenga 2009. The cost for the participation of the Baguio Country Club (BCC) alone almost reached half a million pesos. It didn't disappoint as the more than 350,000 tourists feasted on an Egyptian-inspired float complete with accompanying belly dancers and performers in Egyptian costumes. BCC general manager Anthony de Leon was quoted as saying “We are not really toning down the festivities and we are not being conservative amid the crisis. This is the time that people should spend more. The direction should be towards consumerism. People should go out to spend; it helps local economy. Tourism provides jobs.” Uhhm sir, I don't agree. That amount of money could have helped finance a dozen micro-businesses and in the process made for some great PR. Other businesses participating in the parade included SM Baguio, Surf, Greenwich, Abanao Mall, M. Lhuillier and Chowking.
Related News: Floral carpet spreads in Baguio (Inq7.net) | Flowers help Pinoys have fun amid downturn (Business Mirror)
Check this out. I'm seeing photos and videos of the street dancing competitions for Baguio City's Panagbenga 2009 Festival in the Inquirer.net VDO webpage. More than 20 schools participated in the parade, and Baguio played host to 300,000 visitors during the week. The float competition starts March 1. The first float to roll down Session Road will be that of the Baguio Country Club (BCC). The cost for this massive float alone is a staggering P320,000 - add this to the P170,000 bill for the accompanying dancers and their costumes and you have the BCC spending almost half a million pesos for this year's celebration!
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