The beloved UP Honest—the annual week-long advocacy-led music truthful led by the College of the Philippines—is again to stage its dwell competition return after virtually three years as a result of pandemic.
The college truthful’s hip hop-focused live performance known as ‘Kalye Tunes’ will happen on the second day of the festivities, January 15, at Sunken Backyard within the College of the Philippines Diliman campus in Quezon Metropolis, Philippines.
Among the many introduced acts are kiyo, Al James, Loonie, Abra, Morobeats, Kartell’em, Zae, As a result of, Ron Henley, Pricetagg, SHNTI, and extra.
Tickets go on sale at present (January 25) and can be found on-ground at EMC² Fraternity Tambayan, third Flooring, Melchor Corridor, UP Diliman. Those that want to attend can even buy tickets on-line through Ticketmax, ranging between PHP150 and PHP300.
That is the primary time that UP Honest will resume its dwell occasions since 2020. The 2021 and 2022 editions had been each held on-line.
This yr, UP Honest shall be held from February 14 to February 18, 2023, with every day devoted to a particular theme: REV (Tuesday), Kalye Tunes (Wednesday), Dimensions (Thursday), Polaris (Friday), and Cosmos (Saturday).
This yr’s theme is “Kaisa Ka Sa Musika” (You Are One With The Music). In an announcement shared on January 21, UP Honest recalled how their final dwell version in 2020 got here at an awfully difficult time, with the pandemic upending many establishments within the nation, compounded by the disaster throughout former president Rodrigo Duterte’s regime.
They wrote, “Sa ating muling pagtitipon sa Sunken Backyard, isapuso natin ang kasaysayan ng ating bansa na siyang kasaysayan din ng walang humpay na pakikibaka para sa ating kultura, kabuhayan, at karapatan.” (As we re on the Sunken Backyard, let’s take our nation’s historical past to coronary heart, which can also be the historical past of the relentless battle for our tradition, livelihood, and rights.)
See what went down within the 2020 version beneath: