Loboc Choir to sing peace at “Taghoy sa Kalinaw”

WITH the angelic Loboc Children's Choir leading in singing “Let there be Peace on Earth” and “One Little Candle,” peace advocates from here across the globe would be united again for that singular cause as they converge in Bohol, September 16 at the Loboc Church. The concert, spearheaded by the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) is a highlight in the National Peace Consciousness Month this September comes a part of a three-day series of activities aimed to cultivate a peace culture. Such activities include a reassessment of the local rebel returnee program, the peace concert Taghoy sa Kalinaw and a civic action in an identified lair of rebels across Bohol 's history.

The victory concert, Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) panel Undersecretary Danilo Encinas said is a celebration of the Bohol successes over the promotion for peace. Top-billing it all is Taghoy sa Kalinaw, the peace concert set inside the heritage church located beside the cinematic Loboc river.

The concert would also gather international peace advocates from the United Nations, leading dignitaries from countries into peace negotiations and key government officials along with former rebels now rejoining the mainstream. The concept is for everyone to pray for peace and make music and culture the thread to stitch everyone to singularly strike a chord for peace, Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) Commissioner Karla Villarta said.

The four canto pro-peace concert gathers United Nation Children's Educational Fund, United Nations Development Program, the Royal Norweigian Government, Spanish Government and local peace counterparts in a gala activity. Concert organizers have said that Alma Taldo, choir musical director has been excited about the concert especially that it entails widening the culture of peace.

Known all over their role being Bohol ambassadors of peace, the choir has hade a lot of development projects funded using their angelic voices, and for them to sing for peace was not a problem, Villarta said. At the church concert, messages of peace also become invocations while national, international and local peace workers state their messages of peace. A child of a rebel returnee is also set to give a testimonial in one of the concert intermissions, concert organizers said.

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