Saturday, October 20 from 5:45 to 9:30 pm:

8:45 pm - Joey Ayala
The Pinoy Rock Stage features a special performance of Joey Ayala from Davao City, Philippines. The prolific singer-songwriter, poet, story-teller, artist, ecology campaigner and internationally acclaimed ethnomusic performer has won numerous awards for his work, which includes six albums, and is destined to become a Filipino national treasure. Last year, Joey was bestowed with the Datu Bago Award from The City of Davao, "for being an outstanding composer-performer-bandleader-lyricist, arranger, writer who has defined the ethnic character of Mindanao music that he renders magnificently well using his voice and indigenous instruments resulting in the consciousness of the Filipino soul, of intimations of its moral values and environmental responsibilities." The Pinoy Rock Stage of the Asian American Festival offers a rare opportunity to see Joey Ayala for the first time in Texas, taking a break from his year-long tenure as the Director of Pusod, an environmental and educational resource center in Berkeley, California.

8:15 pm - Bobby Banduria
With two cds released and consistently playing to packed houses in their Bay Area base, this will be Bobby Banduria's Texas premiere. Should one dare to define the "Fil-Am sound," one would be hard-pressed to find anything closer to it than Bobby Banduria. Musically as diverse as the 7100 islands of the Philippines, Bobby uses the octavina and the banduria, Filipino traditional stringed instruments, to deliver catchy pop melodies and jazz chord progressions within a rock framework.

7:45 pm - Phuz
Fresh off the national circuit with Sade's Lover's Rock Tour and the release of their second cd, Houston's own Phuz has been garnering critical praise. Nominated in the Houston Press Music Awards as Best Funk/R&B, Phuz is described as "cool-school jazz/European-style ambient funk music that wouldn't sound out of place in a Paris bistro or a Berlin cafe."

7:20 pm - The Dread-I-Knight and Lady Pinay
Well-established in the LA underground artist community, the duet Dread-I-Knight and Lady Pinay embark on a soulful emotional journey with violin, guitar, rap and beat box.

7:00 pm - Malaya
The Malaya Music and Dance Collective from San Francisco integrates Filipino and other Southeast Asian traditional dance with modern elements, presenting a wide range of ethnic instrumentation from the region and beyond.

6:35 pm - East Babylon Symphony
Led by modern Filipino composer Eugene Baylon Jaceldo from Carigara, Leyte and joined by three of his brothers, the repertoire of Austin-based East Babylon Symphony includes a melange of traditions ranging from indigenous Filipino influences to classical African-American music.

6:15 pm - kayumanggi
A Pinoy rock band with a Philippine-centric socio-cultural focus led by songwriter Kokoy Severino from Manila, kayumanggi's Tagalog lyrics explore issues crucial in one's search for a Filipino identity, such as the painful longing for the homeland, the political violence that permeates Philippine society, and the enigma of nationalism. Described in Dirty Linen Folk and World Music Magazine (Baltimore MD) as "obliquely political and colorfully poetic."

5:50 pm - rodSUN
Modern rock band rodSUN has been busy on the local college circuit and is being hailed as the next act from Houston to be established on the Pinoy rock map.


Email any questions or comments to kayumanggi at sepoykoy@aol.com.


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