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                    [Title] => Bacolod's Granada MassKara dancers parading in Hong Kong for Chinese New Year
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                    [Title] => 36th MassKara Festival kicks off  BACOLOD
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The city’s world-famous MassKara Festival, now on its 36th year, kicked off with an opening salvo at the Public Plaza last Thursday.

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The Philippine Postal Corp. (PhlPost) will issue this week commemorative stamps featuring the country’s four famous festival masks.

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Bacolod literally burst at the seams on the weekend closest to Oct. 19 — the city’s Charter Day Anniversary — while thousands of guests from neighboring cities and towns, faraway provinces and distant islands, together with foreign visitors and balikbayan guests, excitedly converged at the City of Smiles, to be dazzled and experience in awe. In fabulous masks, street dancers made up of students from all levels of education and representatives from the various barangays, slowly inched their way down festive, crowded Lacson Street. They were witnessed by noisy, celebratory merry makers for the Grand Parades — all three of them on three succeeding days — that climaxed this year’s MassKara Festival, the most anticipated annual event in the so-very-underrated-and-yet-so-much-to-offer tourist destination.

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MassKara Festival mask & costume display at City Walk Robinsons

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Masskara by the Sea 2014 gallery

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Bacolod City invites everyone to experience its annual world-class MassKara Festival celebration with this year’s theme, “One Rhythm. One Bacolod. A Million Smiles.”

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Nakaalerto ang kapulisan kaugnay ng  ipinatutupad na seguridad sa pagdiriwang ng “Masskara Festival 2014” sa Bacolod City, Negros Occidental sa susunod na linggo.

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Masskara Festival 2014 Schedule of Events

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People celebrate the MassKara Festival by wearing smiling-faced masks, colorful costumes, and unique accessories, while parading and dancing on the streets of Bacolod.

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                    [Title] => 36th MassKara Festival kicks off  BACOLOD
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The city’s world-famous MassKara Festival, now on its 36th year, kicked off with an opening salvo at the Public Plaza last Thursday.

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The Philippine Postal Corp. (PhlPost) will issue this week commemorative stamps featuring the country’s four famous festival masks.

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MassKara Festival mask & costume display at City Walk Robinsons

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Masskara by the Sea 2014 gallery

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Bacolod City invites everyone to experience its annual world-class MassKara Festival celebration with this year’s theme, “One Rhythm. One Bacolod. A Million Smiles.”

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Nakaalerto ang kapulisan kaugnay ng  ipinatutupad na seguridad sa pagdiriwang ng “Masskara Festival 2014” sa Bacolod City, Negros Occidental sa susunod na linggo.

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Masskara Festival 2014 Schedule of Events

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People celebrate the MassKara Festival by wearing smiling-faced masks, colorful costumes, and unique accessories, while parading and dancing on the streets of Bacolod.

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