Aeta children performed during Balagtas Day . Rey Valera and Rody Vera were given the Dangal ni Balagtas 2019 for music and drama, respectively.

The all-star cast, Alice Reyes Dance Philippines’ dancers, and the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by National Artist for Music Ryan Cayabyab, performed a reprise of the epilogue to ...

It’s a special non-working holiday today in Bataan in observance of the 220th birth anniversary of the great Filipino poet and orator Francisco “Balagtas” Baltazar.

ORION, Bataan — The coastal village of Pag-asa Wawa here, also known as “Hardin ni Balagtas” (Garden of Balagtas), was silent witness to the solemn ceremony that conferred on singer ...