For the second year in a row in the pandemic era, the International Bamboo Organ Festival will go online to provide a continuing stream to the country’s longest-running musical event. Now on its 47th edition, the festival is set inside the majestic St. Joseph Church in Las Piñas City featuring…
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The event is scheduled from March 5 to 7 at 8 p.m. and the program will be available on https://www.facebook.com/ibof46online so that people from around the world can watch regardless of their time zones.
Through the camera, there will be a unique view on the keyboard of the Bamboo Organ to be played by Armando Salarza, an international concert organist and has been the titular organist of the Bamboo Organ for 28 years.
Salarza, currently the artistic director of the International Bamboo Organ Festival, will also introduce the pipe organ of the San Scholastica College of Music and the organ at the San Ezekiel Moreno Oratory.