Dagitab Festival (Naga)
Christmas for the southern town of Naga was even brighter and merrier as they celebrated their Dagitab Festival last December 23, 2010.
This is a grand festival of light that starts simultaneous with the feast of the Immaculate Conception and goes through the Christmas season.
Dagitab, which means electricity, is translated into a festival as it is the town’s pride for being the home of one of the leading electric utility provider in the country, KEPCO (Korean Electric Company) which is set to address the looming power shortage in the Visayan Region.
The festival expresses six aspects of dagitab’s contribution to Nagahanons: light, progress, industry, tourism enhancement, economic development and employment.
A group performs during the Naga Dagitab Festival.
Battery-operated twinkling lights adorned the dancer’s costumes and props, sparkling in different hues as eight contingents from different elementary and high schools in the town battled it out to be the brightest group in the ritual showdown set in the evening.
Tribu Hugpong Balironganon of Balirog National High School dazzled the crowd with their green and red costume with oversized flowers and ribbons. They took the first place in the ritual showdown and as well as the the Best in Costume award.
Tribu Pundok Masidlakon of Naga National High School and Tribu Pamilyang Dominikano placed second and third.
For the street dancing, Gleaming Tribe of Tuyan National High School got the first place followed by Tribu Sidlak Cultural Arts of Professional Academy of the Philippines and Tribu Hugpong Balironganon in the second and third place respectively.
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