Sandugo Festival – Fusion Nights Official Opening
The Provincial Government of Bohol through the Bohol Economic Development and Investment Promotion Office (BEDIPO), in partnership with the Bohol Association of Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants and the Isang Dugo Foundation, will officially open the Sandugo Festival – Fusion Nights 2022 on July 22, at the Sandugo Festival Grounds, Old Airport, Tagbilaran City.
The Opening Program will feature the Loboc Youth Ambassador Band and to be hosted by Ate Chevie Torillo, followed by a musical band performance after the program proper.
Aside from the ongoing food fair participated in by small food establishments, Fusion Nights will be a special 10-night feature that will showcase fusion cuisine from the different hotels, resorts and restaurants of the province into one venue from July 22 until 31.
This year’s participating concessionaires are Kew Hotel, Modala Beach Resort, Ocean Suites Boutique Hotel, Astoria Bohol, Panda Tea Garden Suites, Pepperoni’s Pizza, Celene’s Racket Food, Coco Craze, House of Lechon, Jzaki Enterprises, MCSA Corner Restaurant, Pearl Teepee, ROJO Panglao, Sweetniest88, Wing It! and Balamban Liempo.
The annual culinary feature event was launched in July 2014 as the International Fusion Nights- a product of a challenge to make the Sandugo Festival more exciting and attract greater attention after the province was struck by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake back in 2013. This showcased the resiliency of the Boholanos and our commitment to rapidly recover and build back Bohol better as a tourism and investment destination.
This year is being made special with the comeback of the month- long Sandugo festivities after two years of cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Provincial Government of Bohol and Isang Dugo Foundation have created a bigger and better line-up of events and surprises for the annual Sandugo festivities including a variety of nightly entertainment such as local musical bands, cultural presentations and other events.
National artists such as the rock band ‘Sponge Cola’ that produced the songs ‘Jeepney’, ‘Bitiw’, and ‘Tuliro’ among others on July 29 and the “Queen of Hugot” Moira Dela Torre on July 31, are the main features of the Sandugo Music Festival and during the Culmination Night.
The Sandugo Festival extends its gratitude to this year’s sponsors and donors who have made the festivities more vibrant: AirAsia, Bellevue Hotel, Coca-Cola, Baba & Jane Yap, City Government of Tagbilaran, National Grid Corporation of the Philippines, Globe Telecom, Smart Communications, Converge ICT Solutions Inc., the Department of Tourism, Beautywise, Cornerstone Entertainment Inc., PH-Cares Pamayanang Handa, Bluewater Panglao, Gardeners Bohol Association, San Miguel Beer, Tanduay, Paymaya, I-Fern, Modala Beach Resort, Standard Insurance, Cosmetique Asia Corporation, PLDT Home, and Bohol Gardeners and Landscapers Association.