Career
He has also been awarded the Talaang Ginto-Gantimpalang Collantes. He is the author of Karapote (Curion), an anthology of Ilocano short stories. Tabag is also a fellow to the 41st Uttar Pradesh National Writers hop (2002).
As a musician, he plays bass guitar for the underground band Pilo and the Ilocano rock band Manong Diego (formerly Samtoy).
With Mighty C. Rasing, another Ilocano writer-musician, they started Danirock, a poetry performance with rock music