Even before Christmas is celebrated by Filipinos today, Bikol Pastores was already a Bikolano's commemoration of Christmas. A musical reenactment of the nativity, the Pastores, a folk festival held in Legaspi City on the third week of December. it is a celebration of Christmas tradition where children clad in colorful costumes, sing their own compositions that interpret the shepherds who sang the first carols and rejoice for the birth of the Christ in Bethlehem.
Pastores is aa spanish word which means shepperds, small groups of four to twelve children, dominantly young girls occasionally with young boy of two.
The Pastores is done with an entourage of traditional musicians while people dance to the tone of Pastores in Belen in the streets and Christmas cheers are all over the town.
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