I am the one and only BUKO PAN GUERRA. Buko "young coconut", Pan "bread", Guerra "war" ... thus I am the Young Coconut Bread War. A banjo playing bandit who has a heart of pearls and the voice of a siren.
Feel free to check out my Flamenco Bollywood Disco Punk Band, THE SWORDS OF FATIMA ,with Drummer Nick Scott
Buko also plays banjo in SUN TRASH
My Origins:
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The Sinigayan Festival in Sagay City, Negros Occidental is held every 19th day of March. This festival is the City's way of preserving the heritage of her people. The gentle, joyful and hardworking Sagaynon whose name God chose to be symbolized by this humble spherical shell which dances as it allows the roaring waves to toss it to shore and pulls it back to the sea in ritual merrymaking.
Historically, Sagay derived her name from a semi-spherical shell, "Sigay" which abounds in many islets and shores of the City. The abundant marine resources continue to provide to this day sustainable economic benefits to her people.
The dynamism of the Sagaynons is the City's assurance of riding high above the waves of change in this new millennium. Sinigay is an expression of art and culture of the hardworking and God-fearing Sagaynons displayed and exhibited during the annual Sinigayan Festival as an eloquent assertion of thanksgiving for the bountiful blessings showered on the past year.
It is a native dance evolving out of the once religious rituals of our forefathers carried out through the ages and enriched by then intermingling of diverse Filipino customs and traditions, now gradually developing as a typically Sagaynon culture.
