Bacolod MassKara Festival Earned the Raves of Boholanos

Posted by EricD on August 12, 2005

“Nindota kaming ihaya sa Bacolod kay morag pang internationa”, (That bacolod is beautiful and seems to be of international standards) quipped a Boholano in the street.

The Bacolod MassKara Festival contingent once more earned the raves and “ohs” of a huge crowd of Boholanos and their local and foreign guests during Bohol’s biggest annual event which is the Sandugo Festival held last July 24, 2005 in Tagbiliran City.

Led by Bacolod City Mayor Evelio R. Leonardia, city councilors Homer Bais, Dindo Ramos, Jude Thaddeus Sayson and Jocelle Sigue, the MassKara group that showed its form were contingents from Barangay Villamonte, Barangay 23 and Barangay Alijis who were the top winners in last year’s Masskara street dance competition.

The crowd in the major streets of Tagbiliran City and the audience at the Carlos P. Garcia. Memorial Stadim which has a capacity of almost twenty thousand seemed to agree that Bacolod’s MassKara differed and was far more superior than any of the other four festival contingents that were invited by the City of Tagbilaran.

The Sandugo Festival of Bohol celebrates the historical blood compact between the Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legaspi and Bohol’s Sultan Sikatuna as a truce of friendship that is why this year’s Sandugo has the theme “Reaching Out to Friends and Neighbors”.

Tagbilaran City Mayor Dan Lim said that the Sandugo Foundation had decided to bring to Bohol the five major festivals of the Visayas in order to afford their people to see these festivals without going out of their backyard especially for those who could not afford to travel.

The five Visayas contingents to the Sandugo Festival were the MassKara Festival of Bacolod, Mantawi Festival of Mandaue City, Yagyag Festival of the Province of Negros Oriental, the Ati-atihan Festival of Kalibo and the Dinagyang of Iloilo City. (CMO/PIO/isk/osb)

Masskara Festival in Bacolod City
Source: http://www.bacolodcity.gov.ph