Lucban mayor celso olivier dator (in orange, 2nd from left), quezon 1st district rep. Katrina enverga (left), vice mayor armando abutal (...
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| Lucban mayor celso olivier dator (in orange, 2nd from left), quezon 1st district rep. Katrina enverga (left), vice mayor armando abutal (3rd from right) and town councilor arnel abcede (2nd from right) lead the parade around town which started the buhusaya music festival 2018. (John bello) |
by John A. Bello
LUCBAN, QUEZON -- An estimated 15,000 participants gathered to be splashed and soaked wet from water while swaying, dancing, and merry-making at the Buhusaya Music Festival here on Easter Sunday.
The festival kicked off around 8am with a multisectoral grand parade led by Mayor Celso Olivier Dator accompanied by Quezon 1st District Rep. Trina Enverga, Vice mayor Armando Abutal and Sangguniang Bayan member Arnel Abcede as it went around the town proper.
Water was being splashed and poured from everywhere on the participants who gamely took it from residents standing and waiting on the roadside with their buckets, water containers and water toy guns as the grand parade passed by.
Dator, Enverga, Abutal and Abcede were soaking wet along with thousand participants of the parade which ended at the town plaza in front of the municipal building.
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| The festive wet crowd at the town plaza in Lucban during the height of the Buhusaya Music Festival last Sunday. (JOHN BELLO) |
The participants, some of them from neighboring provinces of Laguna, Batangas and even from Metro Manila, rapidly grew in numbers as the party started in earnest around noon with water gushing from water hoses of 3 firetrucks and artificial foams are being emitted from a device with non-stop dance music pounding and adding to the excitement and frenzy of the crowd.
“Masaya ito at lahat ng kalahok ay naliligo sa buhos ng tubig habang sumasayaw kaya nagtutungo dito ang galing sa iba’t ibang bayan ng Quezon at kahit sa mga karatig na lalawigan ng Laguna, Batangas at sa Metro Manila,” said a resident-participant of the festival who declined to be named.
The festival is named this year as Buhosaya Festival 2018 and started 4 yrs. ago as an event after the week-long observance of Holy Week. Named then as Buhosan Festival, it is now being considered as an addition to the town’s main tourist draw called Pahiyas Festival, a month-long cultural event in May here which made the town to be included in the tourism map of the country.
“Number 7 pilgrim site na ang Lucban worldwide as per information ng Department of Tourism for 2018, at kahapon ay 15,000 ang estimated na nag-attend ng ating Buhusaya Festival,” the 38-year-old mayor Dator told Business Mirror.
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