It’s not Carnival, and we’re not in Brazil, but we do have a festival — Exit Zero Jazz Festival — and PhillyBloco will bring the best of Brazilian percussion right to our own backyard when it plays ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. R.Evolución Latina, in collaboration with Pregones/PRTT, have announced the ...

Hosted on the beautiful CU Boulder College of Music campus, our Bateria Directing Symposium is specifically designed and intended for experienced percussionists and teachers to develop skills and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This special staging will be performed in Spanish, marking the musical’s first ...

A picture may capture a thousand words, but Brazilian percussion group Ilê Aiyê demonstrates how a melody embraced in polyrhythmic harmonies can convey meaning beyond what can be spoken or seen. On ...

Grammy-nominated composer Clarice Assad has built a celebrated career driven by diversity. The self-described musical ...

Percussionist Brian Potts is founder, CEO, and musical director of Miamibloco. The 80-member strong percussion ensemble with more than 20 guests will be performing in its fifth annual “Saideira Social ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Batala Philly is an all-volunteer drum troupe that promotes and shares Afro-Brazilian percussion. This fusion of Brazilian samba with Jamaican reggae is known as 'samba-reg', ...

Mateus Picanco Lima Gomes ’18 grew up playing music in Brazil. When he was 11, he learned to strum the four-stringed cavaquinho. But as time went on, his interest in traditional Brazilian music waned, ...

Choro is an instrumental genre of music which dates back to Rio de Janeiro in the late 1800s, when immigrants to the country brought European styles and melodic structures that fused with the native ...