With smiles on their faces, they shared their stories. Earning a living for their family Struggling with a limited income when the lockdowns began, 25-year-old John Amistad from Cebu was more than ...

Johnny Alegre created Humanfolk, a suite of compositions and the subsequent World Music concept band he undertook with the New York based percussion and indigenous music advocate, Susie Ibarra, ...

Later on, he moved to Cebu and established his own guitar factory. Now 72, Fernando has been running Alegre Guitars for 30 years. GUITARIST.

Humanfolk, a world music project of Johnny Alegre (guitar, bamboo percussion, voice), Susie Ibarra (kulintang, drums, percussion, voices), her husband, Roberto Juan Rodriguez (drums, percussion ...

Manager Fernando Alegre showed her how Alegre’s craftsmen assemble guitars, banjos and ukuleles from designing, binding, sanding to finishing. She clamped tight a guitar body and stringed a ...