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Monday, September 13, 2004
Pop fest’s magic 12
By Sam Costanilla
Spotlight
CONCERT. Hundreds of people, including balikbayans, filled the San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish grounds in Malabuyoc the other Sunday when Voice of Asia second-placer Sheryn Regis staged a concert. It was produced and directed by Father Ponce Jed Bellones. The parish priest initiated the show as a fund-raising activity for the century-old Malabuyoc church. Sheryn’s guest performers were fellow Cebu Popular Music Festival interpreters Zenith Rivera, Jan Michael Banaynal, Oscar Pagas and Norelyn Endrina. The Heartbeat band provided the live accompaniment to Sheryn’s numbers. This writer was commissioned by Father Bellones to emcee the show.
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DELIGHTFUL. Despite some technical problems (the sound system technicians were inconsistent in adjusting the mixer), the petite concert star still managed to pull through with the show. Mind you, Sheryn and the band didn’t have an actual rehearsal as she arrived in Malabuyoc straight from the airport due to her very hectic schedule in Manila. I gathered that her husband, Earl, who is also her musical director in Manila, just provided the band members with the notes of Sheryn’s songs days before the concert so they could rehearse them. But the entire show was a delightful treat for all those who came to watch and listen to the cute concert star. Her rapport with the audience kept everybody fully awake while young balikbayans Paulo and Chino Creus from New York offered Sheryn bouquets of fresh flowers. Their impromptu onstage antics brought the house (or stage) down because Sheryn was in her very playful self and the Creus brothers played along so well. Cheers to Bellones and the many sponsors for putting up such a wonderful concert.
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HOME. Fellow radioman Choy Torralba (he has a daily noontime program over dyAR Angel Radio) is home. He is back in action after a well-deserved, two-month vacation in the US mainland and Hawaii. He says he was able to visit a total of 15 states during the entire period and that Japan would have been his last destination but he decided to cut his trip short due to homesickness. Welcome back, Choy. Your listeners already miss your fiery commentaries.
SILVER. Being its silver anniversary presentation, silver is obviously the motif of next year’s Cebu Popular Music Festival when it goes on stage in Jan. 14 at the New Cebu Coliseum. The annual songwriting event has indeed gone a long way already in the arena of music and entertainment, not to mention the numerous individuals who are now big-time stars in their own right after having performed in it in previous years. Vying for big prizes are the following entries and their respective composers and/or lyricists: “Apyot Manananggot” (Leo Manlanat and Guillermo del Mar, composer and lyricist, respectively), “Apan” (Johnrey Pagalan, composer); “Kakulian” and “Garbo sa Sugboanon” (Dennis Martin and Norms Tomada, composer and lyricist, respectively); “Usa ka Tingog” (Melvin Corpin and Jude Gitamondoc, composer and lyricist, respectively); “Gihigugma Ko Ikaw” and “Gipalaom Lang” (Lauro Flores, composer); “Samtang Dili Pa Ulahi Ang Tanan” (Bien Racho, composer); “Ana Lang” (Glenn Salve, composer); “Pan Init” (Frederick Villarojo, composer); “Balikon Ko Ikaw, Pinangga” (Dennis Emmanuel Cabahug, composer) and “Ang Kalinaw” (Joseph Abella and Eugene Tan, composer and lyricist, respectively).
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FEE. It’s been two months already since a local concert had been staged in an uptown establishment but until now, several of its performers remain unpaid. (Email at samcost@yahoo.com or text 0916-3483333).
(September 13, 2004 issue)
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