MANKAYAN, Benguet — Seventy-three years ago ... the iron shells of the spent bombs could be flattened and forged into gongs, the most essential musical instruments in the Cordillera region.

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The gongs were silent in this year’s Adivay Festival to allow residents to offer prayers for those killed in recent disasters in Cordillera, including the landslides in ...

The youths exhibited the community dances of Kalinga, Mountain Province, Apayao, Abra, Ifugao and Benguet to dramatize ... or communal discussions whenever gongs are played, she said, to explain ...