At the Cafe

March 13, 2020 - "Baby Come Back" by Player

Ron Trinidad – Lead Vocal

Paul Morrow – Bass

Robbie Sobrevilla – Guitar

Bernard Florentino - Drums

Raffy "Swap One" Ramiro - Keyboard, backing vocal

Video: Paul Morrow

from Ron Trinidad's multi-song set

March 13, 2020 - "I Got You (I Feel Good)" by James Brown

Ron Trinidad – Lead Vocal

Paul Morrow – Bass

Robbie Sobrevilla – Guitar

Bernard Florentino - Drums

Raffy "Swap One" Ramiro - Saxophone

Video: Paul Morrow

from Ron Trinidad's multi-song set

Jammin' - February 17, 2019 - "Georgy Porgy" by Toto

Raffy Swap-One (vocals and drums)

Lamar Alviar (vocals and piano),

Reinell Jash Runez (guitar)

Bernard Florentino (percussion),

Paul Morrow (Bass)

Video: Jef Reyes

Welcome to the Cafe - January 2019

Travel back in time to the early days of Raffy's Cafe, to January 2019, when Aldous Guzman and his friend Noel Lapuz came for a tour of the cafe and a sampling from Mary's delicious menu.

(Video: Noel Lapuz, Diverse TV Canada YouTube Channel)

Jammin' July 2020 - "Gravity" by John Mayer

Jef Reyes (guitar)

Km de Joya (guitar - his first gig ever!),

Will Pops (guitar, vocals)

Raffy Swap One (keyboards)

Paul Morrow (bass)

Chester Pangan (drums)

Video: Jef Reyes

"Pull up your sox. You're the boy in the box"

Raffy performs Corey Hart's "Boy in the Box" at Live By Request, January 30, 2021, featuring the music of Corey Hart and Shania Twain. This behind-the-scenes video was filmed by Mary Mallari.

Raffy on Raw X Rare podcast

In early January 2021, Julius Cesar Eugenio interviewed Raffy "Swap One" Ramiro on Julius's Raw X Rare podcast. Have a listen.

(In Tagalog and English)

Setting up for Live By Request

A lot of planning and preparation goes into a Live By Request broadcast from choosing whose music to feature, learning 20-25 songs, inviting a guest singer/musician, finding the backing tracks to setting up the instruments and equipment. Raffy shows you what's involved.

"Soul Sacrifice" by Santana

Performed at our Santana Live By Request broadcast on Facebook, July 11, 2020

Raffy "Swap One" Ramiro, timbale, congas, keyboards, guitar, vocals,

Mary Mallari, vocals

Robbie Sobrevilla, lead guitar

Paul Morrow and Bobby Sobrevilla, bass

Normand Bonneteau, drums

Yssang Trinidad, vocals

Jam Session

Raffy with Jef Reyes on bass.

At Raffy's Cafe, November 16, 2018

"Anak" (Child) by Freddie Aguilar

Anak is a popular Tagalog song in the Philippines. It was written in 1978 by Freddie Aguilar and is about the relationship of a child with his parents. (See WIkipedia)