The acclaimed Boston Filipino ensemble brings a two-act concert of Philippine folk and musical theater to the Oakland Asian Cultural Center — free, Sunday afternoon, with a market starting an hour before.

Musikang Kalipay lands at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center on Sunday, July 12, from 2 to 4 pm. It's free; registration is requested at oacc.cc/event/kalipay. The venue is at Pacific Renaissance Plaza, 388 9th St., Suite 290, Oakland — about a five-minute walk from 12th Street/Oakland City Center BART.

The performers are the Iskwelahang Pilipino Rondalla, a string ensemble based in Boston that has been playing Philippine folk, pop, and contemporary compositions since 1986. The résumé is real: two albums, performances at the United Nations and the Cultural Center of the Philippines, appearances before three Philippine presidents, and tours through Canada, Europe, and the Philippines. Their parent school, Iskwelahang Pilipino, has been running as a volunteer Filipino cultural institution since 1976.

The program runs in two acts. First: a concert version of Kalipay & Gamay: The Musical, drawn from a children's musical first staged in Boston in 2024. The source is Kalipay and the Tiniest Tiktik, a picture book by Oakland-based author Christina Newhard and her Oakland independent press, Sari-Sari Storybooks — so the material has local roots even if the ensemble is flying in from the East Coast. The second act, Rondalla Mixtape, surveys 50 years of the Philippine folk tradition through reimagined songs, popular medleys, original compositions, and the ensemble's signature move: choreography while playing.

Co-presented by OACC with Sari-Sari Storybooks and supported by Bindlestiff Studio and the Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA).

The move: The Palengke — a Filipino market — runs from 1 pm on the same floor. Get there at 1, browse, and find your seat before curtain.