TAGUM CITY, Davao del
Norte, Mar 02 (PIA)--- Tagum City Mayor Allan Rellon Saturday opened the
Musikahan Festival with his call for aggressive promotion of the
city’s tourism industry as the country opens its doors to ASEAN (Association of
Southeast Asian Nation) Integration.
He called on local
prime-movers of the city’s tourism industry to move ahead and not wait
for the national government to promote “our place and (our) festivals as
tourism destination.”
“We must initiate
aggressive campaign to forefront our local tourism industry especially to
international market,” he said in his Musikahan Festival opening remarks
Saturday, during which he unveiled the musical note marker to signal the start
of the trio-event to unfold this week in Tagum City.
Aside from the
Musikahan Festival, the City of Tagum will also be celebrating its 17th
Founding Anniversary and will be staging Tagumenyo Bisa’g Asa which is a
celebration of “successful and united Tagumenyos worldwide”.
Rellon revealed that
efforts to position Tagum as the music capital of the south and the city of
festivals “has gained international recognition and appreciation” leading the
city to foster sisterhood relations with Vermont of the United
States through exchanges in music and arts.
“This will be a
promising future venture to boost our local tourism industry,” he said.
He also expected
the city of Tagum to draw international attention in 2016 as it is
being considered to host the International Brass Band Competition next year.
Meanwhile, Rellon
aired his call for Tagumenyos to continue creating festivities to hand
down to the next generation the tradition of celebrating success, culture, joy
and happiness.
Bringing the
involvement of children and youth at the forefront of this
year’s Musikahan Festival, the organizers will feature the hundred voices
concert of the city’s local choral groups which are both school and
community-based.
Another significant
feature of the Musikahan is the string instrument concert which
will bring together, for the first time, all graduates of the Music Makers
Program to render a series of special musical rendition.
“We call it a reunion
of music maker graduates in one concert,” Rellon said.
Rellon also
revealed that innovations were made in holding some of the Musikahan
competitions and that new ones were introduced to go with the trend
in music competitions and to level up to international standards.
He was confident of the
achievement of such objectives with the guidance and mentorship
Maestro Arnel Feliciano, a national icon of the National Cultural Commission
for the Arts and President of the Pambasang Samahan Ng Mga Banda ng Pilipinas
(PASAMBAP). (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)
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