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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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KALIBO, Aklan – Around 1,500 merrymakers are expected to join the opening salvo for the 2017 Ati-Atihan Festival.
Street dancers and drummers from 41 Tribal and Modern groups will lead the Tamboe Salvo this coming Oct. 21.
The opening salvo will not only see “drumbeats dominating the main streets” but will also be “blazing with pageantry and revelry,” said Albert Menez, chairman of the organizing group Kalibo Santo Niño Ati-Atihan Foundation, Inc. (Kasafi).
A more grandiose Ati-Atihan celebration in honor of Señor Santo Niño is to be expected from Jan. 6 to 15, 2017.
Six-time Tribal Big champion Black Beauty Boys will lead Tamboe Salvo merrymakers along with Kabog, Maharlika, Pangawasan, Tribu Ano-noo, D’Kamanggahan, Tikbalang, Tribu Ninolitos, Tribu Timawa, Tribu Alibangbang, and Tribal Small champion Tribu Bukid Tigayon.
Modern group champion Aeang-Aeang and 29 other Ati-Atihan groups were also participating.
Among them were Pirates 162, Lagalag, Pagmukeat, D’Emagine, Emper-D-Bly, Delex 300, Eleven ’05, Village People, Akatsi, Bantod Smile, Balong, Road Side, Bae-ot Bae-ot, Etcetera, and Youngkeys;
Skylarks, Part’z of the Sea, Meresi, Remember the Family, C-Nimu-Ron, Bunggos, 509 Society, Gala Drumbeat, Sto. Niño Village, Toronian Hotshot, Royal Scorpio, D’Goons, Anino, and Kamicousins.
Rep. Carlito Marquez, Gov. Florencio Miraflores, Mayor William Lachica, and candidates in the 2016 Miss Earth will join the opening salvo crowd at the Pastrana Park.
Kasafi will also launch the first-ever upbeat Ati-Atihan song arranged by Dante Beriong and Sammy Rubido, and present the 16 finalists in Mutya it Kalibo Ati-Atihan.
All streets leading to the Pastrana Park — portions of XIX Martyrs, S. Martelino, C. Laserna, G. Pastrana, W. Regalado, Archbishop Reyes, and Rizal — will be temporarily closed to traffic at 12 noon. (Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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