Experience Negros – MassKara Festival, Bacolod City
Bacolod City in Negros Occidental celebrates October like no other in the Philippines, when the city celebrates its Charter Day. It’s one whole month of gaiety and festivals, street dancing and competition, food and a charged atmosphere of fun.
The month-long activities culminates with the MassKara Festival, a street dancing parade through the main highway of Bacolod by locals and tourists wearing elaborately decorated masks and costumes. This video montage captures the festival’s fun-factor:
Now one of the most sought after festivals in the Philippines for its 10-scale decibel of fun, the MassKara was born out of adversity and crisis. MassKara comes from “Mass” meaning multitude or mass of people, and “Kara” for faces, so coined together the festival is a “multitude of smiling faces”.
I’m trying to look for pictures of the festival, so hang in there, I hope to have them by next week. Meanwhile, Promdiblogger has a cool site features Negros and highlights his first MassKara festival.
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i almost got to bacolod for this one…almost…
been to bacolod but only for a day. i’d love to return there someday
The maskara here in bacolod was incredible there so many people here who visited us here.