MusicArtsPe—PHILIPPINE FESTIVALS AND THEATRICAL FORMS

• Religious festival celebrates with a patron saint
• While Non-religious Festival celebrate with out a patron saint
• Pahiyas Festival

  Pahiyas is derived from the word "Payas" which mean decoration or to decorate
• Pahiyas Festival is a religious celebration every 15th of May held on Lucban, Quezon
• Kiping is a firsthand Filipino Leaf-shaped wafer made from glutinous rice
• Obando Fertility Rite is a dance ritual and catholic festival celebration every May in Obando, Bulacan. This Festival is a religious festival
• Couples who are childless can take this occasion to appeal the intercession and dance to please the Virgin of Salamboa
• Moriones Festival is a lenten rites held annually on holy week on the island of Marinduque
• The "Moriones" are men and women in costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Roman soldiers as interpreted by the local folks.
• Ati-Atihan Festival

  Ati-atihan Festival is the mother of all the Philippine Festival. It is celebrated every 3rd Sunday of January in honor of the Santo Niño in several towns of the province of Kalibo, Aklan.

  The festival is consists of tribal dance parade and people are shouting 'Hala Bira" and "Viva Santo Niño.
• Sinulog

  The word "Sinulog" maans graceful dance. Cebu is known for the Sinulog Festival The native dance of the string to to commemorate the acceptance of the Filipino people to Christianity
• The Dinagyang festival is a religious festival in IloIlo City held on the 4th Sunday of January, of right after the Sinulog in Cebu and the Ati-atihan in kalibo, Aklan
• Santacruzan

  Flores de Mayo is a festival held in the Philippines in the month of May.

  It is one of the May devations to the Blessed Virgin Mary and lasts for the entire month
• Panagbenga Festival It is a month-long annual flower occasion in Baguio City.

  Panagbenga is a Kankanaey word which means "season of blooming". This Festival is non-religious festival
• Masskara Festival

  It is an annual festival with highlights held very fourth Sunday of October in Bacolod (City of Smiles).
• Kaamulan Festival(Non-religious Festival) This is an ethnic cultural festival held annually in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. They celebrate this festival by telling legendary stories, reliving ancient rituals playing and listening to ethnic music and doing traditional dances.
• 7 Tribes of Bukidnon Talaandig

  Higa-onon

  Bukidnon

  Umayamnon Matigsalug

  Manobo

  Tighawanon

  
  

  These names of tribes were derived from the rivers/watershed areas that they inhabited.
• Kadayawan Festival

  It is a festival of thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture and the bounties of harvest and serenity of living that is derived from the Dabawenyo word "madayaw" or good value and superior in English
• The term Masskara is coined from two words: mass meaning crowd, Spanish word cara meaning face