CARNEIRO: Composer Marquinhos de Oswaldo Cruz takes his artistic name from the working-class Rio suburb of Oswaldo Cruz, and that's where we're going. This is the 30th edition of the samba train, the ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the shuffling rhythms of samba, in its defiance and energy and lust for life, lies the soul of Rio de Janeiro. Samba is heard ...

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Retired biology teacher Dean Jernigan directs the We’re Not Dead Yet MissionSquare Meerkat Samba Band. The MissionSquare Retirement community is now home to a samba band orchestrated by a retired ...

Brazilian-American musician Beto Gonzalez was too young to understand the country around him when his family returned to Brazil in the 1970s. It was only as he grew older, after coming back to the ...

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...

Devizes Samba Band rehearsals are held at Devizes Police Headquarters' sports hall on Thursday evenings. Samba Dance practice at 1900 and Band from 2000-2200pm. There is a small session charge for ...

If you love to party, make some noise and be the centre of attention - take advantage of the new open drumming sessions being held by Norwich Samba on the first Monday of each month. The Norwich Samba ...

Samba bands are not usually known for playing quiet music. So when one was told it couldn't play in a town centre for being too noisy it came as a bit of a shock. Worthing's Celebration Samba was told ...