National Artist Ryan Cayabyab will perform at the Waterfront Cebu City Pacific Grand Ballroom on August 3, 2024, at 6:00 PM. The Dinner Concert for A Cause is hosted by the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society – Cebu Chapter (POGS Cebu) to raise funds for their POGS Cebu Women & Children Protection Program (WCPP).
In their press conference on July 22 at Waterfront Hotel, POGS Cebu announced their Dinner Concert for A Cause with Ryan Cayabyab as the main performer. He will also be joined by the Ryan Cayabyab Singers, a 7-person ensemble, and Cebuana pianist-singer-songwriter Kate Torralba, who studied with Cayabyab.
The dinner concert aims to raise money for POGS Cebu Women & Children Protection Program (WCPP). The program aims to provide assistance for women and children who are victims of abuse.
POGS Cebu is a society of Cebu-based ObGyns committed to championing the reproductive health of women in Cebu. Their advocacy for the compassionate care of the Cebuana spans decades and includes several concerns such as maternal-fetal well-being, adolescent health, and women’s cancer awareness, among many others.
They created the Women and Children Protection Committee (WCPC) in the hopes of addressing increasing societal concerns about domestic abuse.
Doctors Carmina Alferez and Mary Beth de los Santos answered questions regarding the Women and Children Program. They said that there have been reports of 18,000 instances of domestic violence but felt this was severely underreported.
The WCPC’s program aims to offer preventative, acute care, and rehabilitative & recovery services for abused women and children. This spans from building awareness in the community about domestic abuse and workshops for vulnerable women on the importance of self-esteem to creating Violence Against Women and Children (VAWC) desks at hospitals to working and creating opportunities for victims to leave abusive households, including creating technical-vocational programs to enable financial independence.
WCPC hopes that through this concert, they can kick start the three-pronged program.
According to Torralba, who was present at the press conference, women and children are very close to Ryan Cayabyab’s heart so it was easy for him to agree to do the concert.
“I’m so excited to go back to Cebu!” Cayabyab said during the question and answer session via online conference.
Cayabyab said his performances are usually full of Filipino songs only but now he will be including songs that he grew up with.
“I will be letting the audience in with very personal influences in my life,” he said.
After this weekend, Cayabyab will head to Melbourne for another major concert.
Ryan Cayabyab is well-known for his Da Coconut Nut song. When asked about his thoughts on BINI’s remix of his song, he admitted he was open-minded and said he loves BINI’s remix. He said recording a song with SB19 was on his wishlist.
He also announced that on August 2, SB19’s Stell will release a new song Cayabyab wrote and recorded with him.
Tickets to Ryan Cayabyab Live in Cebu Dinner Concert are available on SMtickets.com. Tickets are priced at P7,000 (VIP), P5,000 (Gold), and P4,000 (Silver). For ticket inquiries, call 0917-324-0650.