Fountain Show and Singers

Yesterday evening, we walked back to Rizal Park to see the fountain. Albano, the security/doorman at our hotel, had told us that the huge park fountain was operational only in the evening. I figured it was because it was too hot during the day to run it because of the amount of evaporation that would have occurred. Silly me, the reason wasn’t practical, it was artistic. The fountain is actually a light show with flame blasts. A sequence of colored lights run their routine with different and varying heights from the water columns. The ball-looking things on the water are actually water spouts that change color also. I took some video while the speakers played a song about Manila. Here are some of the still shots I took. The yellow-ish blasts in this second photo were flames bursts that came in one of the areas of the fountain, kinda like fireworks. The lights they used changed the colors of the fountains from red to purple to blue to green to yellow. Sometimes all colors were seen in different parts of the fountain.

 

 

We gazed at the water show for awhile, then noticed that music from the nearby amphitheater was competing with songs coming from the speakers. When we walked around the fountain, we found a free music show with two singers. The female singer, with a powerful and excellent voice, was just finishing her set. The male singer was some type of Filipino Justin Bieber. The teens and pre-teen girls in the audience went crazy when he stepped out onto the stage. At one point he walked out in the audience and the girls were screaming as he walked, singing, to a few of them and held their hand while he sang. A real Bobby Sherman moment. We left as he was singing his last song to avoid the crush of young girls.