Music of the Philippines

Fiesta Filipina is an album of traditional music from the various regions of the Philippines features music that accompanies ritual and ceremonial dances of the mountain dwellers of Luzon and the remote hinterland of Mindanao played with hand-held gongs, bamboo flutes, clappers and drums.Spanish influenced music with small mandolins and guitars rubs shoulders with the music of Filipino Muslims and their markedly different musical traditions.