Wooo!  A music post!  Yes, I still play music, and lovin’ it! :)  

Last Tuesday, I played at the monthly FOLK U! showcase, subtitled “Backless to School” and held at Route 196.  FOLK U! is an amazing haven for singer-songwriters who desire a safe space and attentive listeners to share their original music with.  It’s definitely one of the things that I will miss when I leave Manila in 5 weeks time (!!!)  

Setlist:

16

Trojan Horse

Last of the Cowboys 

Unfortunately I didn’t get video but there were cameras all over the place — I’ll update the post if anything pops up.  But the set is the same as my Red Couch concert back at Stanford if you haven’t seen the vid yet; I’m really proud of it :)  Watch here!

Pics of my performance, taken by Piya Constantino:

P.S. the writing on my guitar is from Freddie Aguilar.  He wrote it in Filipino - “Mabuhay ang musica” - but it roughly translates to “long live music.”

Highlights:

-Watching Fando and Liz perform.  They have such cinematic songs.  And Ledh, the singer, also is the one who puts on FOLK U!  Thanks Ledh for inviting me time and time again :)

-The Pittsburgh med students coming in for the last song of my set.  They were a fun bunch to hang out with!  

-The singer-songwriter Kate Torralba, who had some really great songs with a Regina Spector vibe.  Her song “Video” has this rad piano-electric bass interplay with JM Quiblat that makes me want to boooooooogie in an angsty way.

-Another singer-songwriter, Miro Nicolai Capistrano Valera, who totally had this 90s-alt-rock-ballad-Creed thing going on, but had a killer voice and catchy melodies.

-The host, Kristine, who was hilarious and energetic, even though I couldn’t catch half of her Tagalog (ok, more like 80% of it).  She remembered me from the last FOLK U! and mocked my deep voice hehe, all in good fun :)

Till next time…