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 ...

Luciano Xavier began drumming in his native Brazil before he was even tall enough to reach the top of a drum. At 4 years old, his godfather noticed his rhythmic ability and built him a special stand ...

Wallace Leite from San Francisco found himself in the middle of thousands of Brazil’s most fanatic supporters during the country’s 2022 World Cup round-of-16 beatdown of South Korea, leading the fans’ ...

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, ...

Drums have been a passion for Kalamazoo’s Keith Hall since he was in grade school. He’s also become passionate about Brazilian percussion.

Since the pandemic, amateur musicians have flocked to the Brazilian percussion ensemble Miamibloco and built a community around samba in the process. After months of pandemic isolation, a lot of ...

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 ...

Long time maker of drum grooves for Apple’s GarageBand and Logic music creation applications, Beta Monkey Music on Monday released a new set of grooves in the Brazilian drum style. Drum Werks XIV: The ...

A writer struggled with being present. This Brazilian drum helped her pay attention. By Carolina Abbott Galvão Earlier this year, Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” came on at a party ...