Vlad Bunoan

Pinoy Playlist Music Festival is back to celebrate OPM

Article (news)

PPMF

ABS-CBN News

<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1763952833605PPMF 2025 Cover Photo.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib fr-dragging" width="960"/></div>The Pinoy Playlist Music Festival (PPMF) is back to celebrate the diversity and creativity of Filipino music with the theme “Halo-halo, Sapin-sapin, Sabay-sabay.”The festival highlights how Pinoy music is, first, a layered blend of flavors and influences (halo-halo); second, a tapestry of overlapping inspirations across time (sapin-sapin); and third, a sound embraced instinctively and simultaneously by Filipinos (sabay-sabay).This year&#x27;s lineup features KIKX and Day One, Somatosonic, The Brat Pack, Gab Cabangon, The Bloomfields, Tres Marias, Trina Belamide, Dingdong Avanzado, Bugoy, and many more.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1763952774987PPMF 2025 Poster.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/></div>This year, PPMF honors Homer Flores, Lorrie Ilustre, and the APO Hiking Society as Ryan Cayabyab awardees. Special performances by Zsa-Zsa Padilla, Nicole Asencio, The Itchyworms, and more, will grace the night to honor the  awardees. There will also be a special segment, Musik-A-laala, remembering legends National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Nora Aunor, and Ms. Pilita Corrales, with special tribute performances. PPMF 2025 will also feature “PPMF Conversations” that will be candid and enlightening forums where the topics this year will be on “Outliving the Uso” with Padilla and Cayabyab, who will share their insights on what it takes to live through the highs and lows of a life in music; “Music as Medicine” with medical students and researchers Justine Regala and Kasandra Tan, with science writer Maria Isabel Garcia, as we explore the role of neuro arts in healing our bodies and souls; and “Musikastorya: 3 OPM Books in focus” a heralding of support for books on the history of Pinoy music and music icons, featuring books by Krina Cayabyab, Jim Paredes, and Susan Claire Agbayani. All the events are happening at the three stages of BGC Arts Center --  the Globe Auditorium, Zobel de Ayala Recital Hall, and Sun Life Amphitheater on November 28-30. Curated by Cayabyab, Moy Ortiz, Noel Ferrer, and Maria Isabel Garcia, PPMF 2025 invites everyone to celebrate the many voices, stories, and sounds that define Filipino music. Tickets are available via www.bgcartscenter.org/ppmf2025  or at TicketWorld outlets nationwide, including the BGC Arts Center Box Office.

The Pinoy Playlist Music Festival (PPMF) is back to celebrate the diversity and creativity of Filipino music with the theme “Halo-halo, Sapin-sapin, Sabay-sabay.”

The Pinoy Playlist Music Festival (PPMF) is back to celebrate the diversity and creativity of Filipino music with the theme “Halo-halo, Sapin-sapin, Sabay-sabay.”