Kulintang Arts Nov 1989 Kapimpilan

In 1986 a handful of San Francisco based artists started Kulintang Arts with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts. Along with the good fortune of hooking up with Master Artist, Danongan Kalanduyan, we were able to receive training directly from the Master. Within 3 years, Master Kalanduyans students in Kulintang Arts began conducting primary research on their own, by traveling to the Philippines directly, having earned further support from the NEA. Again through good fortune, we be-friended a nun in Cotabato City who was involved in a livelihood project, a bronze foundry which made Kulintang instruments (primarily for show). She took us to the foundry because we were interested in bringing some Kulintang instruments back to the US. We insisted on their tuning the instruments before we would buy them (we were not interested in simply hanging them up on the wall). After the tuner had tuned this particular set to the tuning they preferred, the local folks graciously played a little for us (the strangers from America). Then it was our turn to share our music with them. What ensued was pure magic. An amazing National Geographic, East meets West moment. Who would have known that the Kangangudan piece we performed for them was one of their favorite tunes. Late 1989 a pioneering time for this sort of thing. Performing for Kulintang Arts: Frank Holder, Robert Henry, Joey Maliga, Marcella Pabros. After over 20 years Kulintang Arts (now KulArts) is still bringing it, under the able direction of Alleluia Panis. Look up KulArts at http://www.kularts.org/.

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