Kapampangan Music

Pampanga Province has been a breeding ground for musicians for ages. There have been many talents that sprouted from small beginnings here. Apple Pineda from the Black Eyed Peas is one true monument for Kapampangan musicians to be proud of. Thia Megia of American Idol, her parents hailed from Angeles City and once visited our humble town several months ago to get back to her roots.

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Old Kapampangan Games

OLD GAMES – VERY MUCH ALIVE IN MAGALANG

Advance tecnology changed the ways the children played. Before, there is bonding between the father and son in making toys like gariton and burarul. The mother make garing-garingan for the daughters. Nowadays, children just point at toys in malls and upon going home, there is the toy. In the sidewalk and tiangge, inexpensive toys are easily available.  Every Friday, Apu Day, almost all kinds of very cheap toys are available around the area.

During our childhood, only the rich have imported dolls and other toys. How we envy their miniature bale-balayan with complete pink kitchen utensils and dining sets. Our bale-balayan is a rectangular table with the ulas (blankets) made of koku or suput arina (flour sacks) as walls. The three sides of the table are covered and the fourth serve as the door or entry. At the imaginary kitchen there are kurang-kurangan(miniature pots and pans made of clay). The white ulas also serve as a movie screen with a paritan as the light. Then a person will make hand formation technique to show a bird or some other objects. When an airplane is on the screen, the mouth gives sound of a plane.

While some girls play the bale-balayan, some girls and boys play outdoor games like maro, tambubung, tumbang preso, luksong tinik, shatung and many others. Sometimes the road serve as a playground because few vehicles and calesas pass. There are also many vacant areas available. Shatung was common in the vacant areas. Children only need two bamboo sticks to play. Girls usually draw lines on the ground for the pikung otso and pikung sampaga. At present, the children use chalks because the streets are cemented. Tirador (slingshot) can be made from a guava branch and the rubber can be purchased in the neighborhood sari-sari store just like the yoyo and the pasi (trumpo). The two famous softdrinks company issued their own yoyos. Old folks believed that if the trumpo are used, there will be hardships but with the yoyo there would be abundance. Babagwa (spider) games will mean that there would be war.

 

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Hot Air Baloon Fiesta In Clark Pampanga

The Balloon Fiesta In clark Pampanga hopes to fuel the passion of flying to both the young and the old to help move the aviation industry forward. It also hopes to create jobs and business opportunities by promoting Tourism.

The Fiesta hopes to instill discipline in the young pilots participating in it so that they may be safe aviators for the country as well as impart the spirit of volunteerism to everyone.

For More Info Pls. Visit http://www.philballoonfest.net/about.html

 

The parol of star lantern

The parol of star lantern is perhaps the paramount Filipino Christmas symbol – colorful, crafted with love and aglow with the spirit of the season. The Christmas lantern or Parul Sampernandu in Kapampangan can never be distanced from the town which created it, the City of San Fernando. It is what San Fernando is known for. And it is what has made the city famous all over the country and even around the world.

 

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Pampango Proverbs

1. Matas at mataluctuc masaldac ya pangabaldug.
(The higher the climb, the harder the fall.)

2. Ing paro macabaluctut dalan ne ning masalusung agus.
(A bent shrimp allows the current to pass through.)

3. Ing asung macabaluctut butul man e macapulut.
(A lazy dog will not find even a bone.)

4. E ca lalapit qng api nung e ca bisang mapali.
(Don’t come near a fire if you don’t want to risk being burned.)

5. E mangaplas ing alang sugat.
(If there’s pain there must be a wound.)

6. Alang asung quinaung a e ra queungan; alang meiling e ra quelian.
(No dog barks unless barked at; no one smiles unless smiled at first.)

7. Queng maranup alang masias a tinape.
(No bread is ever hard to a hungry person.)

8. Ing malulumud pataram man calawatan na.
(A drowning man will clutch even a blade.)

9. Ing itu balican ne ing labug na.
(A mudfish always retraces its path.)

10. Panayan mu caring anac mu ing depatan mu cang tata mu.
(Expect your children to treat you the way you treated your father.)

Source: Hazel Clark Taylor, Pampangan Proverbs, 1918 and Ricardo Ortega, Pampango Proverbs, 1915 in H. Otley Beyer’s Philippine Folklore, Social Customs and Beliefs Vol. IX (Unpublished).

Makatula talaga!

Inang ng Juan: Juan sali na cang ema keng palengke

( malagwat salita meras na I Juan keng palengke micasali na yang ema pinabilinan ng Juan ing ema na muna neng muli karila )

Juan: Muli na ca muna na ca kanaco atin cu pang puntalan “dininan na pang tanda nung nukarin ya muli” ( Nang minuli ya i Juan la ya pa ing ema karila kitang ng inda na nukarin la ing ema )

Juan: Ot ala yu pa ing ema minuna cu pa kaya sinabi cu keng ema muna naya ot ala ya pa

( minwa ya ing inda na “e ya wari mulala pepaulya ne ing ema”( pepatunan na nemo I Juan ning inda na ng adwang gatang Oneng metung mu ing kalerang gatang menintun ya pang metung gatang kutang ng inang na ot mainge ya ing kayang tutun..)

Juan: metung mu pin ing kecatamung gatang menintun cu pang metung oyta ing tinun cu adwa na lang gatang ot e la pa lalambot?

Taynida mu Juan!

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Proud To Be Kapampangan

Ancient Pampanga’s territorial area used to include portions of the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, Tarlac and Zambales in the big Island of Luzon of the Philippine Archipelago. The province derived its name from the Kapampangan words “Pangpang ilog” meaning “riverside” where the early Malayan settlements were concentrated along the Rio Grande de la Pampanga (Great Pampanga River) until such time the adventurous Malayan settlers expanded their domain into the hinterlands of the Kapampangan region.

Pampanga was the first province in the island of Luzon inaugurated by the Spaniards. It was founded on December 11, 1571 in the same year the City of Manila was established by Spanish Governor Miguel Lopez de Legaspi as the seat of national government. For governmental control and taxation purposes, the Spanish authorities subdivided the province into towns (pueblos), which were further subdivided into districts (barrios) and in some cases into royal and private estates.
In a report of Philippine encomiendas on June 20, 1591, Spanish Governor Gomez Perez Dasmarinas reported to the King of Spain that La Pampanga’s encomiendas were Batan, Bitis y Lubao, Macabebe, Candava, Apali, Calompit, Malolos, Binto, Guiguinto, Caluya, Bulacan and Mecabayan. The encomiendas of La Pampanga at that time had eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty whole tributes, or seventy-four thousand seven hundred and twenty souls.