• Aurora Festival
    last Sunday of August to first week of September
    • Aurora Festival
    Date: last Sunday of August to first week of September
    Venue: Tanjay, Negros Oriental
    Brief Description:

    The festival features evening novenas participated in by more than 40 clans, which culminate in a nocturnal fluvial procession at the Tanjay River.

  • Hin-ay Festival
    September 1-29
    • Hin-ay Festival
    Date: September 1-29
    Venue: Irosin, Sorsogon
    Brief Description:

    This features a cultural show, trade fair, and a street dance depicting the archangels’ victory over the “Black” Angels.

  • Bicol Food Festival
    September 1-30
    • Bicol Food Festival
    Date: September 1-30
    Venue: Naga City
    Brief Description:

    This is a festival of Bicol cuisine: pinangat and laing, bicol Express, inolokan or tilmak, pecadillo and cocido.

  • Sarakiki Festival
    September 1-8
    • Sarakiki Festival
    Date: September 1-8
    Venue: Calbayog City
    Brief Description:

    The festival features street dancers dressed as cocks swaying to the beat of ancient Samareño instruments.

  • T’boli Tribal Festival
    3rd week
    • T’boli Tribal Festival
    Date: 3rd week
    Venue: South Cotabato
    Brief Description:

    This is a gathering of the major ethnolinguistic groups in the province together with representatives from Davao.

  • Djanggo Festival
    September 28-29
    • Djanggo Festival
    Date: September 28-29
    Venue: Nassiping, Gattaran, Cagayan
    Brief Description:

    This commemorates centuries-old religious and cultural tradition based on the life of St. Michael.

  • Banigan-Kawayan Festival
    September 29
    • Banigan-Kawayan Festival
    Date: September 29
    Venue: Basey, Samar
    Brief Description:

    This celebrates the banig and the kawayan crafts industry flourishing in Basey.

  • Linapit Food Sharing Festival
    September 30
    • Linapit Food Sharing Festival
    Date: September 30
    Venue: Gueday, Besno
    Brief Description:

    This is a festival with a delightful pre-planting feast at its core where natives share their food with everyone.

  • Busig-On Festival
    September 7 - 9
    • Busig-On Festival
    Date: September 7 - 9
    Venue: Labo, Camarines Norte
    Brief Description:

    A festival based on the epic Busig_on of Labo town, which exemplifies heroism and Bicolano values. The festival features the town’s distinct historical values and sentiments through talent and skills competitions featuring the town’s places of interest.

  • Traslacion (Penafrancia Festival)
    September 13
    • Traslacion (Penafrancia Festival)
    Date: September 13
    Venue: Naga City
    Brief Description:

    Traslacion is the transfer of the Image of INA from the Basilica to Naga Cathedral, carried by hundreds of male devotees. It marks the start of festivity and the 9-day Novena Mass in honor of the Feast of the Our Lady of Penafrancia, Patroness of the Bicol Region.

  • Peñafrancia Fiesta Festival
    3rd Sunday of September (Sept. 21)
    • Peñafrancia Fiesta Festival
    Date: 3rd Sunday of September (Sept. 21)
    Venue: Naga City, Camarines Sur
    Brief Description:

    A religious festival honoring the feast day of Our Lady of Penafrancia, Patroness of the Bicol Region. Main highlight is the fluvial procession along the Naga River.

  • Dalit Festival
    September 21
    • Dalit Festival
    Date: September 21
    Venue: Tangub City
    Brief Description:

    A thanksgiving for a bountiful harvest is expressed through a tableau presentation, a dancing parade and competition and a fashion show. Miss Tangub is also held during this time and other cultural activities.

  • Dahunog sa Dipolog
    September 26- October 07
    • Dahunog sa Dipolog
    Date: September 26- October 07
    Venue: Dipolog City, Region IX
    Brief Description:

    “Dahunog” is one of the most ceLebrated festivals in Dipolog where marching bands converge for a parade and compete by showcasing talents to produce the most thunderous, lively and entertaining musical revelry.’ Dahunog [da.ht.i.nug.}is a Cebuano word which means rumbling sound. During the event the city streets resonate with the sounds played by the bands specially the drums, thus the name of the festival.

  • Megayon Festival
    September 27-30
    • Megayon Festival
    Date: September 27-30
    Venue: Provincial Capitol Complex, Dao, Pagadian City
    Brief Description:

    It is a weeklong celebration of the solidarity of the various cultural groups held every September on the occasion of the province’s founding day. The Philippines in known for its colorful and lively festivals (the fiestas) which derive their forms from the unique and diverse culture of different people groups populating the archipelago. One of these festivals is the Megayon Festival of Zamboanga del Sur. Spearheaded by the Provincial government, it features and highlights trade and travel products, culture and traditions of different municipalities including their local festivals.

  • Diyandi Festival sa Iligan
    September 27
    • Diyandi Festival sa Iligan
    Date: September 27
    Venue: Iligan City
    Brief Description:

    Fiesta in honor of St. Michael the Archangel. Festivities include Miss Iligan, Street dancing and Tableu Competition, Ceremonial dance offering of the union of the Maranao men and Higa-onon women in marriage as well as the offering of their union and harvest to the patron saint.

  • Lapay Bantigue Dance Festival
    September 28
    • Lapay Bantigue Dance Festival
    Date: September 28
    Venue: Masbate City
    Brief Description:

    It is a local dance art festival that originated from the graceful movements of hovering birds known as seagulls or the LAPAY, found abundant in Barangay Bantigue, Masbate. Flocks of lapay seagulls created a marvelous scenery and inspired the old folks to come up with a local folk dance, that since then has exited and has become an important aspect of the local culture of the people of Brgy. Banitgue and the entire Masbate.

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