Joey Ayala to perform on Munato Festival '08

Yeah that is absolutely true. Joey Ayala will perform on Munato Festival.

Well, last day I was called by one of my classmate and ask me to buy a ticket regarding the concert of Mr. Joey Ayala in our Munato Festival 2008, the theme this year is Ang Galing mo Sarangan (You are good Sarangan).I am not an avid fan of him, but I'd heard and read some awesome things about him. So just I always do ,I surf the net for information about Mr. Joey Ayala and I'm amazed on who really was him. And then I remember my physics teacher is a fan of him. This are the things I've found.

Joey Ayala (born June 1, 1956) is a contemporary pop music artist in the Philippines. He is well known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music. His professional music career started when he released an album recorded in a makeshift-studio in 1982. To date, he has released six albums.
Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use include the two-stringed Hegalong of the T'Boli people of Mindanao and the 8-piece gong set, Kulintang melodical gong-rack of the predominantly Muslim peoples of the southern part of the country. He also uses modern instruments in his music, such as the electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums.
He is one of the few Filipino contemporary songwriters who insists on putting his creative energies at the service of cultural/social development, so much so that he has ventured directly in to non-formal education - the running of workshops demonstrating the use of arts as a language for education.

[edit] Awards and Honors Received:
Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Award for Social Artistry, Federation of Catholic Schools’ Alumni/ae Associations (FeCaSAA)in partnership with the Good Citizenship Movement [GCM], 2007
Musical Intelligence Award, Multiple Intelligence International School, 2007
Datu Bago Award from The City of Davao (“for being an outstanding composer-performer-bandleader-lyricist, arranger, writer who has defined the ethnic character of Mindanao music that he renders magnificently well using his voice and indigenous instruments resulting in the consciousness of the Filipino soul of intimations of its moral values and environmental responsibilities.”) Awarded March 14, 2000, 63rd Araw ng Dabaw, Marco Polo Hotel.
Special MAGIS Award for Outstanding Alumni, Ateneo de Manila High School (, “For creating music that delineates the unique Filipino soul, for defining the ethnic character of Philippine music through the use of native instruments, especially in harmony with foreign instruments like drums and acoustic guitar, and for awakening in the Filipino an awareness of its own heritage as a people . . .”), 1996
Gawad ng Pagkilala - Komisyon sa Wikang Pilipino. Recognition from the National Commission for the Filipino Language (Dahil sa paglikha ng mga awiting mayaman sa pagpapahalagang moral sa wikang Filipino at paglalapat ng musika sa pamamagitan ng katutubong mga instrumento.... nakatutulong sa pagpapayabong at pagpapaunlad ng wika at kalinangang Pilipino. [For writing songs laden with moral values in Pilipino, for musical arrangements using indigenous instruments . . . for helping enrich and develop Pilipino culture.]), 1993
Outstanding Alumnus in the field of the Performing Arts, Ateneo de Davao University Alumni Association, 1993
Nomination: Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Award for Cultural Achievement, Junior Jaycees Chamber International, 1993
The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) Award, The Philippine Jaycees, (“for humanitarian efforts directed towards the two objectives of art - as relevant socially-oriented medium and as aesthetic principle”), 1989

[edit] Albums
Panganay ng Umaga (Firstborn of the Morning)
Magkabilaan (Dichotomies)
Mga Awit ng Tanod-lupa (Songs of the Earth-Guardian)
Lumad sa Síyudad (Native in the City)
Lupa't Langit (Earth and Heaven)
16lovesongs
Awit ng Magdaragat (Song of the Seafarer)
Organik
Basta May Saging (As Long as Theres Bananas!)
JoeyAyala: RAW
Encantada (Music from a Ballet Philippines dance-drama, 1992.)

(Informations are affirmed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Ayala)

See! Mr. Joey Ayala's concert is something to be worth to spend a few bucks of. So Don't be surprised when you see me in the concert.haha