José Íñigo Homer Lacambra Ayala, professionally known as Joey Ayala, is a Filipino singer, songwriter and former chairman of the music committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. He is well known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music.
Alicia, officially the Municipality of Alicia, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Bohol, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,374 people.
The Las Piñas Boys Choir of Las Piñas, Philippines is a boys choir made up of scholarship students at the St. Joseph's Academy, and performs regularly in the annual International Bamboo Organ Festival and at the Parish of St. Joseph.
The Las Piñas Bamboo Organ in St. Joseph Parish Church in Las Piñas, Philippines, is a 19th-century church organ. It is known for its unique organ pipes; of its 1031 pipes, 902 are made of bamboo. It was completed after 6 years of work in 1824 by Father Diego Cera, the builder of the town's stone church and its first resident Catholic parish priest.
The legislative districts of Bohol are the representations of the province of Bohol in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its first, second, and third congressional districts.
Barangay Mansâsâ is one of the 15 districts or barangays of Tagbilaran City, capital of the province of Bohol, in the Philippines. It is located on the southern part of the city, just a minute ride from the city proper.
The Bohol Island State University, formerly the Central Visayas State College of Agriculture, Forestry and Technology (CVSCAFT), is a public institution of higher learning in Bohol, Philippines. The institution operates campuses spread throughout the province, with the main campus in Tagbilaran city, Bohol.
A bamboo cannon is a type of home-made firecracker which is popular during the Hari Raya festive season in Malaysia, and during New Year's Eve celebrations in the Philippines.
Sonia Cubillo Malasarte-Roco is the widow of Filipino senator and Presidential candidate Raul Roco. She ran for the Senate in the 2007 Philippine Midterm Elections under her late husband's party, Aksyon Demokratiko, which is allied with the broad opposition coalition called Genuine Opposition. She joined the coalition after JV Ejercito, son of deposed President Joseph Estrada, pulled out as an opposition candidate at his father's behest.
A kalaleng is a nose flute made from bamboo from the Philippines.
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines Laboratory High School, abbreviated as PUPLHS, is the laboratory school of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines College of Education located in PUP Mabini Campus, Sta. Mesa, Manila. It was established in 1954 as the Philippine College of Commerce High School offering commercial courses, and is the first high school to offer commercial curriculum in the Philippines. The school has a student population of 541 in 2015.
Cecilio Kapirig Putong was a Filipino scholar, educator, writer, UNESCO fellow, author. In 1952, he became the Secretary of Education of the Philippines. He was one of the most brilliant minds from Bohol having a reported IQ of 138 based on Otis Intelligence Scale Test.
Armando V. Salarza is an internationally acclaimed concert organist, harpsichordist, conductor and the titular organist of the Bamboo Organ of Las Piñas City, Philippines.
Villa Teresita is one of the 44 barangays of the municipality of Ubay, in the province of Bohol, Philippines.
Bamboo's natural hollow form makes it an obvious choice for many musical instruments.
Barangay elections was held on Monday, October 28, 2013. The election shall elect the Punong Barangay, more commonly known as barangay captains, and members of the Sangguniang Barangay, or barangay council, in 42,028 barangays throughout the Philippines whose terms start on November 30, 2013. Barangays are the smallest local government unit in the Philippines.
Banda Kawayan Pilipinas is an orchestra based in the Philippines that uses musical instruments made from bamboo and other indigenous materials. It was established as a bamboo orchestra of Philippine College of Commerce High School in 1973 by former PCCHS principal Gloria R. Talastas and faculty member Prof. Siegfredo B. Calabig. It was known as PUP Banda Kawayan and was under the Polytechnic University of the Philippines University Center for Culture and the Arts until it separated itself from the university in 2014.
Leo Renier is a former Roman Catholic priest and Belgian musician, living in the Philippines since 1969, responsible for the preservation of the Spanish Historical Organs in the Philippines and the revival of its organ culture. He is the moving spirit behind the performance of Baroque music in a country, which eventually may lead to the discovery of Philippine Baroque music. He is the founder of the Las Piñas Boys Choir (1969) and of the International Bamboo Organ Festival, held every year since 1976 at the St. Joseph’s Church of Las Piñas, Metro Manila, a former school director of St. Joseph's Academy until 1994.
Pierre Bleuse is a French violinist and conductor who made an international career. As a violinist, he played in the Satie Quartet and was concertmaster of the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra. As a conductor, he worked with French and international orchestras, beginning with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and also with the Opéra de Lyon. He co-founded and has conducted the ensemble Lemanic Modern Ensemble, focused on contemporary music, and the Musika Orchestra Academy, a European school of orchestral studies.