“For the business establishments, for the citizenry, for the Bacolodnons, this will be very special and the whole country is looking at us because we are the first to hold a festival in this pandemic time,” he stressed.
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. and the First Family as well Vice President Sara Duterte are also expected to bring smiles for the revellers and merrymakers as they will lead the festival's culminating activity.
The four-decade old MassKara Festival was orginally created as a diversion from two major tragedies that befell Neg-
