Click on the thumbnails for better viewing!  Photos show The Kundirana wearing their formal and casual attires.

The De La Salle Alumni Association of Northern California is proud to sponsor the upcoming concert of the popular La Salle Green Hills music ministry, The Kundirana, on Friday May 26, 2006 at the Herbst Memorial Theater.  The concert will start 7pm and promises to be another entertaining event.  Proceeds of the concert are earmarked for Bahay Pag-Asa, a half-way home for Bacolod youths in conflict with the law. 

The Kundirana was formed in 1971 by Br. Roly Dizon FSC, Br. Mike Rapatan FSC and LSGH music teacher Rose Balana.  Br. Mike coined the word "Kundirana" from two popular Tagalog musical forms, the kundiman (love song) and harana (serenade).  The concept was to accept members from the 3rd and the year student body.  A member automatically forfeits his place after graduation from high school.  The Kundirana was formed initially to cater to the school community.

Over the years, the Kundirana has evolved from a regular school choir composed of select, musically gifted and talented high school boys from La Salle Green Hills to a more socially aware singing group with a ministry of providing goodwill and joy to the less fortunate through the medium of music and the performing arts.  They visit centers for street children, orphanages, prisons, hospitals and charitable institutions because they believe their ministry is one that touches hearts and spreads the Good News, specially with the less fortunate.

The Kundirana has performed on television, in parks, churches, barnyards, professional theaters, old gyms, and on makeshift stages.  They have been privileged to have shared their ministry before Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and other world luminaries.  During the summer months of April and May, invitations to visit United States and Guam as performing ambassadors of goodwill are accepted.  True to their ministry, they sing in convalescent homes and other social institutions, not only to bring their ministry to that part of the world but to establish cultural exchanges and linkages in the promotion of what is best for the Philippines and the United States of America.

In 1985 and 1986, the Kundirana was nationally honored by being given the Aliw Award as Best Cultural Group for its ability in projecting a positive image of the Filipino spirit of sharing and caring.

This year, 2006, marks the 35th year of the group's existence.  To commemorate this momentous achievement, the present batch's concert repertoire includes songs performed by the various batches from 1971 to 2005.  This trip back in time through the Kundirana's music will, hopefully, evoke in its audience a keener awareness of Kundirana's evolution through 35 years of sharing its music.

For ticket sales, please contact Tom Consunji at (650) 892-3312, Tom Umali at (650) 867-4819, Alan Silva at (510) 468-3254, Lou Madamba at (408) 532-1840 and  Romi Beza at (925) 683-7717.

The current edition of the Kundirana are: Alaric Lopez de Leon, Andre Castillo, DJ Cuasay, Jaime del Castillo, JC Tolentino, Magnum Bakunawa, Neil Zaragosa, Paul Regalado, Reinhard Uy, Sandro Hermoso, Thias Tanbonliong, Vince Lim and Virgil Banya.  Kundirana alumni are also involved in the production side and are led by renown tenor (and also U.P. College of Music Dean) Montet Acoymo and Manny Lahoz, among others.