Bring the family for a day of dance, activities, and songs, and jam to genre-sweeping Filipino songs of empowerment with Ihaw-Ihaw!
Ihaw-Ihaw is Tagalog for barbecuing, which reflects the natural, laid back quality of their music. Starting in 2004, the core group decided to make their jam sessions an annual tradition at the infamous Pinoy Hill at Seward Park. The Ihaw-Ihaw Jam Project is a collection of musicians that play Original Pilipino Music (OPM). OPM is a sweep of music genres from rock to folk, to pop with a twist of Filipino culture. The unique intertwining of the U.S.-Philippine cultural relationship fostered a surging of OPM in the tumultuous 70s, highlighted by activism against abuse in the arena of socio-political issues.
This special Ihaw-Ihaw Family Concert will feature other active community groups sharing songs of protests. Along with Ihaw-Ihaw’s folk group featuring pre-Spanish, anti-colonial “kundimans” to the more current songs of empowerment, the Gabriela Group will also render songs from the Filipina women’s movements.
