At the end of each year, in a bario in the Gran Cordillera hinterlands, people gathered in the village square for a Costume Ball, a New Year's Eve celebration that has been passed from generation to generation. While awaiting for the clock to strike at midnight, girls were crowned as village queen and princesses and thereafter were entertained with dances and songs and a parade of people from all ages in the different costumes of the Cordilleran tribal groups, the Philippine
regions and other nationalities.
