is a discipline and a mistress of
good order and good manners,
she makes the people milder,
and gentler, and more moral,
and more reasonable...
Igorot Pride
September 28, 2007"The past decades have unfolded before our countryside folk music lovers in the region an era marked with an unprecedented growth and development of Cordillera countryside songs and music. Within this period, we have seen the dramatic and spectacular shift in the fondness and passion for folk music - from the Western "cowboy songs", melodies and ditties to what is distinctly Cordilleran in melody, air and strain.
It would not be amiss to aver the fact that among all the contemporary Cordillera music artists artists today, LOURDES has given the most of her God-given talents towards the propagation and wide acceptance of Igorot music even outside the Cordillera Region…"
DR. MARCELINO T. DELSON, ExecutiveDirector, Cordillera Executive Board (1990)
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