NOV 27, 2024 at Salvador’s Casa Branca “House” of Candomblé. Ulisses Castro is a singer/composer from Santo Amaro, Bahia, with songs based in the Afro-Brazilian religion of candomblé (from which most of the rhythms utilized in Brazil’s popular music are derived).
— Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (@sparrowroberts.bsky.social) November 19, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Nov 30, 2024 in Largo Tereza Batista, Pelourinho, from 2 pm, I Festival de Samba de Roda. This samba is to Brazil what the Delta Blues is to the U.S., the rural source (born in the Recôncavo) of a vast & variegated national music. It is Brazil’s African samba, created in senzalas & quilombos.
— Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (@sparrowroberts.bsky.social) November 22, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Salvador, Dec 15, 2024 in Teatro do IFBA in Canela, Rua Araújo Pinho 39, 7 pm, MASTERY: violeiros Manassés from Ceará, Aurino from Maracangalha & Cássio Nobre from Maranhão via São Braz & the Chapada; chuleiros Ecinho from Acupe & Dona Zélia from São Braz. Acupe & São Braz began as quilombos…
— Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (@sparrowroberts.bsky.social) November 27, 2024 at 4:16 PM