Loboc Children’s Choir thanksgiving concert at SM today

CEBU, Philippines -  The pride of Bohol, Loboc Children’s Choir, will hold a thanksgiving concert in SM City Cebu Northwing Atrium, 4 p.m. today, in line with SM’s 20th year anniversary.

The Loboc Children’s Choir was founded in 1980 at the Loboc Central Elementary School in Loboc, Bohol. It is a school choir established to give color to school and community events. In 1993, it won first prize at the National Music Competitions for Young Artists. It was awarded first prize again in the same competition in 1995.

In 1996, the choir toured different cities in the United States for a special performance in a concert “On Angels’ Wings: From Bohol to the World.” It has performed with the World Youth Orchestra during the latter’s concerts in Bohol and Cebu in 1999, and with the University of Santo Tomas Symphony Orchestra. As a ‘cultural treasure’ of the Province, the group often sings for visiting dignitaries, and local and foreign tourists. Its concert repertoire is a combination of classical, folk, modern and children’s songs.

The choir also garnered two major awards in Europe and its Songs 6th International Folksong Choir Festival, which was held this year in Barcelona, Spain, from September 17 to 21, 2013. This feat was received with great adulation and admiration from an overwhelmingly impressed audience of hundreds of mostly European singers from thirteen competing choirs. (PR)