Your Guide To This Year’s Tanduay Rum Festival In Bacolod
The first-ever Rum Festival in the City of Bacolod promises to be a really exciting one. Sponsored by Tanduay, the World’s Number One Rum, the festival pays homage to the humble sugarcane, which has been an important part of both the company and the city’s prosperity.
How It Started
Tanduay Distillers came up with an idea of a Rum Festival and proposed to the City government the possibility of holding it in Bacolod. An ordinance authored by then Bacolod City Councilor Em Ang and passed on April 01, 2019 declared the third weekend of August as the date for holding of the Rum Festival. In the ordinance, Ang cited how Bacolod has been dubbed as the “Sugar Capital of the Philippines” and is the “home of the world’s largest selling rum.”
Bacolod Tanduay Rum Festival – Schedule of Activities
• August 17, Saturday
Opening Ceremonies at 3:00 PM. Top government officials and Tanduay executives are slated to attend the event, which will also see the announcement of the winners of the Barrel Art Competition that was held earlier in the week.
Barrel Art Competition
This will be followed by the highly-anticipated Culinaria Competition at 4:00 PM and the opening of the Food Bazaar at 5:00 PM.
Culinaria Competition
At 6:00 PM, the region’s talented young bartenders take center stage for the Mixology Contest. All these activities will be held at the New Government Center Grounds (NGC).
Mixology Competition
Judges of the competition include the country’s top chefs BJ Uy, Don Colmenares, and Nico de Asia Millanes. They will be joined by Bacolod-based journalist, chef and trainer Sammy Nuarbe. Singapore-based Victoria Beckley of the World Gourmet Summit and mixologist Ricky Paiva will also join them.
Culinaria Competition Judges – Chefs BJ Uy, Nico de Asis Millanes, and Don Colmenares
• August 17 to 24
Food Bazaar continues at the NGC from August 18 to 24, 5:00 AM to 12:00 NN.
• August 22, Thursday
The Tanduay Rum Festival joins Sabor Bisaya for its Opening Ceremonies at the SMX Convention Center. The culinary exhibit and competition continues on August 23 and 24.
• August 23, Friday
Rapper Mike Swift leads the Street Art and Basketball Court Painting Activities at 10:00 AM at Barangay Montevista Gym, Bacolod City.
• August 24, Saturday
The Tanduay Rum Festival will hold the exciting Rum Run at 3:00 PM by Bacolod’s premier running organizer Coach Franklin Echeverria. This will be followed by the Street Dance Parade and Competition at 4:00 PM, which was organized by Zin Joann Visitacion.
The festival will then end on a night of music with an after-party that will feature performances from iconic rock band Sandwich; rapper Mike Smith; Idol Philippines’ Dan Om-bao and Miguel Ordon; and Bacolod’s Project Juan, Barbie na Doll, and Cali Island.
Need more information? Follow Tanduay Rum Festival’s Facebook page – www.facebook.com/TanduayRumFestival – for updates.
