Pinoy Playlist Music Festival (PPMF) returns to celebrate the diversity and creativity of Filipino music. From heartfelt ballads, pop, to bold new sounds across all genres and generations, PPMF 2025 highlights how Pinoy music continues to evolve while staying deeply rooted in Filipino stories and spirit.
With the theme, “Halo-halo, Sapin-sapin, Sabay-sabay,” this acknowledges that Pinoy Music is first, a layered variety – halo-halo – of different flavors and sources; second, a spread of overlapping sheets of colored influences and inspiration across time – sapin-sapin- and; third, that Pinoys are all imbued with a deep musical sense to welcome all these simultaneously– sabay-sabay.
This year’s lineup includes KIKX and Day One, Somatosonic, The Brat Pack, Gab Cabangon, The Bloomfields, Tres Marias, Trina Belamide, Dingdong Avanzado, Bugoy, and many more timeless Pinoy music. 3 days, 3 stages; all genres, all generations, all PINOY!
This year’s Ryan Cayabyab Awardees are Homer Flores, Lorrie Ilustre, and the APO Hiking Society. Each of the awardees excelled in their contributions to the aspects of music that National Artist for Music, Ryan Cayabyab pursued, that include composition, arrangement, or performance. Special performances by Zsa-Zsa Padilla, Nicole Asencio, The Itchyworms, and more, will grace the night to honor our beloved awardees. There will also be a special segment, Musik-A-laala, remembering legends National Artist for Film and Broadcast Arts Nora Aunor, and Ms. Pilita Corrales, with special tribute performances.
PPMF 2025 will also feature “PPMF Conversations” that will be candid and enlightening forums where the topics this year will be on “Outliving the Uso” with musical icons Zsa Zsa Padilla and National Artist for Music, Maestro Ryan Cayabyab, who will share their insights on what it takes to live through the highs and lows of a life in music; “Music as Medicine” with medical students and researchers Justine Regala and Kasandra Tan, with science writer Maria Isabel Garcia, as we explore the role of NeuroArts in healing our bodies and souls; and “Musikastorya: 3 OPM Books in focus” a heralding of support for books on the history of Pinoy music and music icons, featuring books by Krina Cayabyab, Jim Paredes, and Susan Claire Agbayani.
All of these are happening at the 3 stages of BGC Arts Center– the Globe Auditorium, Zobel de Ayala Recital Hall, and Sun Life Amphitheater on November 28-30, 2025.
Curated by Ryan Cayabyab, Moy Ortiz, Noel Ferrer, and Maria Isabel Garcia, PPMF 2025 invites everyone to celebrate the many voices, stories, and sounds that define Filipino music.
Ticket Prices:
● 1-Day Pass – ₱1,900*
● Student Rate (up to college) – ₱750*
● 3-Day Festival Pass – ₱3,900*
*rates exclusive of ticketing charges
Join the celebration of Pinoy music! See lineup of artists and get your tickets now at www.bgcartscenter.org/ppmf2025 or at TicketWorld outlets nationwide, including the BGC Arts Center Box Office.