DAGUPAN CITY, April 12 (PNA)–Seven Flipino rock bands, including movie celebraties, will spice up the fun in the Bangusan Street Party to be held here on the night of April 30, one of the highlights of this year’s Bangus Festival in Dagupan.
Mayor Belen Fernandez said they will again close the Jose R.de Venecia Expressway on that day to give way to the street party which is a certified crowd drawer and earlier acknowledged by the Departmwnt of Tourism (DOT) as one of the best attended street parties in the country in recent years.
The rock bands invited to come are “Parokya ni Edgar”, “Spongecola”. “Abra”, “Gloc 4″, ” Kamikaze”. “Lunar Light” and “Join the Club”, all from Manila. The celebrities coming are Ton Rodriguez and Dennis Trillo.
Fernandez said grills will be sold to firms and individuals who will grill in embers of charcoal their own millfish and other food items like meat, hot dog, oysters and others which their groups will partake during the party that will last till the week hour in the morning.
The cost of grills include charcoal, one to two kilos of milkfish, including condiments that will go with the fish.
Incident ally, the theme of this year’s celebration is Bangus Festival: The Happiest Fishtival ever.
A concert by the famous Philharmonic Orchestra is also slated on April 15 at the CSI Stadia in Barangay Lucao.
Fernandez said the soft opening of the Bangus Festival was last April 6 with the owning of a trade fair and food strip along Galvan and Zamora streets, respectively, it’s formal opening is yet set on April 17 with the holding of the “Gilon-Gilon Ed Baley”, a street dance competition participated in by 19 contingents from 31 barangays of Dagupan.
The competition includes a street dance parade along Dagupan’s downtown loop and focal presentation by each contingents at the city plaza, to be made more lovely by a silent drill of cadets of the Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA).
Barangay Pantal is the defending champions in the ‘Gilon Gilon” street dancing and also the Festival of the North champion.
Whichever win in the ‘ Gilon Gilon dance will represent Dagupan in the Festivals of the North where 14 street dancing champions north of Manila will see action. (PNA)