Bohol’s youths join efforts to nurture Bohol Dayegon Christmas tradition
Bohol’s young people are giving hope that the province’s cherished tradition of Daygon would not suffer extinction and continue to be enjoyed by future generations
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Folk Society’s Christmas Musical Tradition Dying in Bohol
The folk carol tradition is considered an endangered folk Christmas community theater act now and is rarely practiced in the towns of Maribojoc, Antequera and Baclayon.
Christmas “Daygon” tradition fast disappearing
Text and Video By COOPER RESABAL MARIBOJOC, Bohol – Simeona Guilen, in her sixties, opens the pages of a discolored notebook containing the handwritten lyrics of “Daygon sa Igue-Igue/Pagkatawo” (Praise for the Birth), a fast disappearing folk Christmas musical tradition in the island province featuring dancing “pastores” (shepherds) and the Holy Couple being refused a
