And to show this, the Songspell group is staging a concert and a play here on May 16 in a show dubbed Madayaw na Pagpanaw (A Walk in Peace).
Supported by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, the show aims to help promote peace in Mindanao by involving young artists in a show of cultural songs, dances and play.
The repertoire includes songs invoking God’s blessings, Broadway selections, children’s songs and Filipino classics.
The second part will be the play Da’ngan ni Rahe’ela, a Maguindanaoan love story with composition, arrangement and audio production by Agnes Manalo and Von de Guzman and libretto by Ruby Lopez.
At the helm of the show, to be held at the CAP Auditorium on Anda street, is known director and choreographer Douglas Nierras. Nelly Domingo Castro is musical director.
The show is for the benefit of the scholarship program of the Songspell Foundation and the Children’s Hour Foundation. – Edith Regalado