PINIKPIKAN

started 1989 at the first

Baguio Arts Festival
As they sat around the
Cafs "dap-ay . . .

PINIKPIKAN
Grace Nono
The music was
called "Rock n
Runo" as opposed
to rock n roll.

PINIKPIKAN: The Name

Manong BenCab,
Visual artist and
founding member of
the Baguio Arts Guild,
named it PINIKPIKAN,
after a Mountain
Province chicken dish
in which the native
chicken is prepared
with a "rhythm" stick
before it is cooked

PINIKPIKAN: The Music

Diokno Pasilan calls the concept a a
lifestyle based on an intuitive notion of
coming together and sharing the moment
with the creative impulses of music and art
according to the participants' own
understanding."
Interactive

PINIKPIKAN: The Band

Sammy Asuncion (guitars, vocals)

Carol Bello (vocals)
Louie Talan (bass)
Fritz Barth (drums)
Tito Martinez (bongos, kubing, log drum)
Dante Bosch (djembe)
Boy Garovillo (djembe, hegalong, tungatong, kubing, gangsa gong,
debakan)
Jerry Baguio (djembe, shakers)
Boyu (wood block, percussion)
Butch Aldana (percussion)
Billy Bonnevie (kubing, percussion)
Budeths Casinto (derbouka, gangsa gong, kulintang, djembe, vocals)

Bayang Barrios

PINIKPIKAN: Albums

1999

PINIKPIKAN: Albums

2000

PINIKPIKAN: Albums

2003

PINIKPIKAN: Awards

Best World Song and Best World Performance for "Kalipay

Best Instrumental Performance for "Singkilan
Best World Album
Best Album of the Year (2000)
"Kahimanawari" and "Ani-Wana", had also been nominated
for Best World Song and Best World Performance
that "Aumoon", "Ina-Nene", and "Sakayan" (with Grace Nono
on vocals) were similarly nominated for Best Instrumental
Performance
"Singkilan", "Aumoon", "Sakayan", and "Ina-Nene" were also
nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement with
Accompanying Vocals.

PINIKPIKAN ---> KALAYO (2013)

Visayan word for
fire
music has a
seriously funky
edge to it