Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Claudio Botelho and Charles Möeller after a wonderful concept of GYPSY (a ...
Samba can’t be learned from a textbook alone. Brazil’s musical tradition is best understood first-hand and up close — close enough to feel the drumbeat reverberate inside you. “ It's like an ocean of ...
Brazil Beyond Samba will play at the Gallo Center. Submitted by Gallo Center for the Arts A musical on Black history and Brazilian Samba come to the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto. Those are ...
A typical Carnival day in Brazil starts around 7 a.m., when the first blocos — as the free street parties are known — start their loud and colorful musical journey down the city’s streets. Drummers, ...
Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when ...
Nicilda da Silva, 80, who was elected queen of the Porto da Pedra samba school, wears her 'Baiana' costume [Photo: Pilar Olivares] After months of coronavirus-induced inactivity, Rio de Janeiro’s ...
One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and composer Antônio Carlos “Tom” Jobim were sitting at Bar Veloso, in Rio de Janeiro, when they recognized a woman walking by. The two men were so ...