Philippines World Tour 2024

Philippines 2024

Watch The Concert Live

The concert, held in Manila on February 28th, 2024 can be viewed below.

About The Concert

The visit to the Philippines was the second on the Choir’s “Hope” World Tour, which kicked of in June 2023 in Mexico.

President Leavitt said the concerts in the Philippines were a success on several fronts. Relationships were strengthened with government and interfaith leaders. One concert was for business leaders, another focused on sacred music with interfaith leaders, and the final two were for a general audience — one of which was streamed throughout the country to help reach every island.

“We had a very wide conversation with essentially the whole country,” President Leavitt said. Members of the Choir presidency met with Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and members of his cabinet as well as the Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Manuel G. Romualdez. “We developed very important relationships going forward. They were honored by the Philippine Senate — the first choir outside of Asia ever for that to occur. So, we’ve been embraced and we have communicated and had a dialog that will be ongoing,” Leavitt said.

The Choir also sought to reach the rising generation in the Philippines. Some 50 youth performed with popular singer-songwriter Ysabelle Cuevas, singing “If You Believe,” a song about belief in Jesus Christ.

“Singing with The Tabernacle Choir has always been a dream of mine, so everything last night was just perfect,” Cuevas said. “I just imagined Heavenly Father talking to me as I’m practicing the songs and as I’m trying to figure out how to let the Spirit take over or take myself and my ego out of the performances. Every time I sing the song, it just always feels like He’s talking to me, [saying] that if I believe I can do it for you.”

The Choir also sought to speak to Filipinos in their language — and the people appreciated it. The Choir sang several songs in Tagalog.

The Choir’s next stop on its “Hope” world tour will be in the United States’ Florida and Georgia for concerts September 5–12, 2024.

“I think that same sense of cultural unity and unity in our message will come out again,” President Leavitt said. “The people of that region will be greatly blessed by our visit.”