Here are the videos I took during the recently concluded Sinulog Festival in Cebu City. Sinulog Festival is held every third Sunday of January in Cebu City Philippines.
Sinulog is a prayer dance offered to Senor Santo Nino. Chants of Viva Pit Senyor! Can be heard all over the city as the various contingent from Cebu and from other cities and provinces present their prayer dance number in a whole day streetdancing competition.
Placer Masbate SB Category, portraying the Sala ti Mais FolkDance
Here are some more photos from the recently concluded Sinulog Festival in Cebu city. I was at the Queen City of the South from January 13-17.
There was just a lot of people moving around. I read from the news that the estimated crowd during the Sinulog highlight was somewhere between 3.8 to 4 million.
Thank God the weather is bright and sunny, compared to last year’s Sinulog where it rained cats and dogs.
A Speedster made with local materials like bamboo and coconut. This was displayed in SM NorthWing
Last January 5 I was in La Castellana Negros Occidental to cover the annual celebration of the Bailes de Luces Festival. Every December 30 the town of La Castellana holds the street dancing competition while every January5th Bailes de Luces Arena competition is held at the town plaza.
This is one amazing festival that is better experienced by watching it live or videos rather than just staring at the photos. The interplay of lights is just so amazing.
Check out the video of Brgy Robles, this year’s champion who is also a Grand Finalist in the recent GrandFinals of ABS CBN’s talent show, Showtime,
The Sinulog Festival streetdancing competition is finally over and the winners have already been declared. By watching the performances earlier this afternoon in the streets and inside the Abellana sports Complex, I would say that this year is probably is one of the Sinulog year with the tightest competition. there are a lot of good contingents this year!
Alangalang Leyte
Here are the winners of this year’s Sinulog Festival 2012
