Voicing The Ancestral Sacred: Grace Nono and Ensemble

Grace Nono, together with Charles Wandag, Bo Razon, and Faisal Monal, will give voice to Philippine oral traditional chants with sacred themes that were taught to them directly by elders from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. They will perform these chants at a time when these are not taught in schools, or heard over the radio and television, or cultivated actively by most communities, many of them burdened by serious threats to their ancestral domains, militarization, mining and environmental destruction. For Grace and her ensemble, singing these chants is their contribution to the collective prayer for peace and the survival of the indigenous lands and peoples of the Philippines.