This coming Saturday Toronto plays host to its yearly festival Afrofest, a hugely popular African Music and Arts festival that attracts thousands of people to Queen’s Park.
It is perhaps the most fitting location for that most African of Brazilian cultural manifestations, capoeira. Capoeira, for those not yet acquainted with it, is the Afro-Brazilian martial art [...]
Statistically, Spain is the best team in the World Cup. Even Lula Da Silva, the president of Brazil, peace be upon him, said that Spain has the best team in this year’s tournament. Having said that, we all know that when it comes down to it, it is not always the statistically best teams that win.
Hmmm [...]
Capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian folguedo (cultural manifestation), a martial art set to music that involves the exchange of symbolic and non-symbolic attack and defensive moves in a game between two capoeiristas. The game of capoeira has for the most part been the domain of men, with women’s involvement in capoeira limited by cultural norms of the [...]
Muhtadi’s International Drumming Festival is taking place on Saturday June 5th and Sunday June 6th in Toronto’s Queen’s Park North.
It is time again for Uma Nota, the delectable Toronto percussive melodic maelstorm of urban edge coolness that just don’t stop and don’t stop…
This edition features the socially deviant tree hugging samba misfits Samba Elegua and the Kensington Horns led by the fornacious saxaphonist Richard Underhill.
So Samba Elegua will take the stage, bring all their [...]
Samba Squad is Toronto’s biggest Samba group. They started more than 10 years ago (many of the members coming from the Escola de Samba de Toronto). Samba Squad quickly rose to the front of the Toronto festival scene led by the creativity and skill of percussionist, and, as they call him, ‘thrill sergeant’ Rick Lazar. [...]
Lula Lounge Toronto’s venerable venue for music from around the world will be hosting their Lula World festival this month from Wednesday may 5th until Sunday May 30th. Geez that’s a long festival…
I hope be home in the Tdot for mother’s day, mostly because I know that will make my mom happy. I would like to take her out for a nice dinner but I know she will probably want to cook for me… I suppose whatever makes her happy, right?
Looking for an idea for what to [...]
The Toronto Brazil Film Festival will be co-presenting two films at this year’s Hot Docs. Hot Docs is North America’s largest documentary film festival and there are several Brazilian documentaries this year as part of their spotlight on South America.
Luanda Jones, the muse from Rio de Janeiro who last year released her CD in Toronto to some instant attention from the likes of Gian Gomeshi and the folks at CBC and just a few weeks ago presented her CD to her hometown in Rio, will be performing with a new quartet at the Trane [...]
“The world has recognised that the time has come for Brazil,” said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
By now almost everyone has heard that the Games of the 31st Olympiad will be held in South America for the first time in 2016. Rio de Janeiro has been awarded the honour to host the world’s premiere more »
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