Brazilian Carnival Dance Class: Frevo & Samba
2023-08-19 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-09-23 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-10-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-10-21 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-11-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
Join us for our two-part Brazilian carnival dance class, featuring frevo and samba! You are welcome to come to one or both parts. Also, stay for our bateria (samba percussion ensemble) rehearsal with André Coelho at 3PM! This event is open to the public. All levels are welcome to participate.
Frevo with Kate: 1-2PM
Learn the basics of Recife’s carnival dance, frevo! Dancer and dance scholar Kate Spanos will demonstrate and teach frevo dance using the methodology of Mexe Com Tudo (Otávio Bastos) of Recife. Learn more about frevo and Mexe Com Tudo here.
Samba with Ilheuma Zezeh: 2-3PM
Learn samba from Ilheuma Zezeh, Brazilian dancer, teacher, choreographer, performer, and healer from São Paulo with a mission to bring more joy to the world through art. Ilheuma will demonstrate and teach the basics of samba dance.
Registration for the full semester of lessons (9 total) is $120. Scholarships are available to those for whom cost is prohibitive (contact us for more information).
$20 drop-ins are also available.

The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to our event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

Brazilian Bateria Class
2023-08-19 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-09-09 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-09-23 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-10-07 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-10-21 15:00 - 16:30, 2023-11-04 15:00 - 16:30 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
Learn from Brazilian samba master percussionist André Coelho from Rio de Janeiro! André will demonstrate and teach each of the essential Brazilian samba percussion instruments. We will have some percussion instruments available for participants to use, but please bring your own instruments if you have any.
This is a regularly occurring Brazilian percussion ensemble practice. All levels are welcome to participate. Also, come early for our Brazilian carnival dance (frevo + samba) classes with Kate Spanos and Ilheuma Zezeh at 1-3PM!
Registration for the full semester of lessons (9 total) is $120. Scholarships are available to those for whom cost is prohibitive (contact us for more information). $20 drop-ins are also available.

The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to our event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange. Thanks also to our instrument sponsor, Contemporânea. EducArte exclusively uses Contemporânea instruments at our Brazilian percussion events.

Brazilian samba and choro performance (private event)
2023-08-27 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-10-13 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-11-02 20:45 - 21:45 | MD
Private event. Want to hire us to perform or teach a workshop? Contact us.

Richard Miller (Brazilian guitar) at Brentwood Arts Exchange
2023-09-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Brentwood Arts Exchange, 3901 Rhode Island Ave, Brentwood, MD, 20722, United States
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Richard Miller dazzles audiences with the expressive sounds of the Brazilian 7-string nylon guitar, including a repertoire of Brazilian styles (choro, samba, bossa nova, forro, etc.), American jazz, and Latin American styles. Now living on the West Coast, Richard received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in music theory from Catholic University and was the premier Brazilian guitarist and arranger in Washington, D.C., including serving as the Music Director for the Kennedy Center’s commissioned musical, “OLIVERio: A Brazilian Twist.”
EducArte presents Richard Miller at the Brentwood Arts Exchange’s Listening Room Concert Series.

Brazilian Carnival Dance Class: Frevo & Samba
2023-09-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Old Parish House of College Park, 4711 Knox Rd, College Park, MD, 20740, United States
NOTE: THIS WEEK WE WILL ONLY HAVE FREVO CLASS, STARTING AT 2PM
Join us for our Brazilian carnival dance class, featuring frevo! Also, stay for our bateria (samba percussion ensemble) rehearsal with André Coelho at 3PM! This event is open to the public. All levels are welcome to participate.
Frevo with Kate: 2-3PM
Learn the basics of Recife’s carnival dance, frevo! Dancer and dance scholar Kate Spanos will demonstrate and teach frevo dance using the methodology of Mexe Com Tudo (Otávio Bastos) of Recife. Learn more about frevo and Mexe Com Tudo here.
Registration for the full semester of lessons (9 total) is $120. Scholarships are available to those for whom cost is prohibitive (contact us for more information).
$20 drop-ins are also available.

The event is a program of College Park-based arts non-profit EducArte. Special thanks to our event sponsor, the College Park Arts Exchange.

Diogo Nogueira at Karma DC Live Music Venue
2023-09-15 20:00 - 23:30 | Karma DC Live Music Venue, 2221 Adams Place NE, Washington, DC, 20018, United States
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Diogo Nogueira é um dos maiores nomes da música brasileira da atualidade. Filho do lendário João Nogueira, ele canta o samba, a música pulsante, popular e alegre, sinônimo da cultura brasileira. Artista multifacetado, Diogo é cantor, compositor, instrumentista e também personalidade da TV e do rádio. Foi indicado ao LATIN GRAMMY por TODOS os seus álbuns e foi vencedor na categoria “Melhor Álbum de Samba” e “Melhor Canção Brasileira” em diferentes anos. Sua discografia rendeu mais de dois milhões de álbuns vendidos, sendo seis CDs de Ouro, três DVDs de Ouro, dois DVDs de Platina e um de Platina Dupla. Completando 15 anos de carreira, Diogo lançou no final do ano passado um álbum gravado ao vivo no Rio de Janeiro, no icônico Pão de Açúcar, chamado “Ao Vivo no Noites Cariocas”, com sucessos populares e clássicos do samba. O trabalho foi amplamente elogiado pelo público, artistas e críticos, confirmando seu lugar como uma grande estrela da música brasileira. Agora, Diogo prepara seu oitavo álbum de estúdio com músicas inéditas e vem rodando o Brasil com esse novo show que irá apresentar nos Estados Unidos.
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Diogo Nogueira is one of the biggest names in Brazilian music today. Son of the legendary João Nogueira, he sings samba, the pulsating, popular, and happy music that is synonymous with Brazilian culture. A multifaceted artist, Diogo is a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, and also a TV and radio personality. He has been nominated for a Latin GRAMMY for ALL of his albums and has won in the category “Best Samba Album” and “Best Brazilian Song.” Nogueira has sold over two million albums, including six Gold CDs, three Gold DVDs, two Platinum DVDs, and one Double Platinum. Completing a 15-year career, Diogo released an album recorded live in Rio de Janeiro at the end of 2022, on the iconic Pão de Açúcar, called “Ao Vivo no Noites Cariocas,” with popular hits and samba classics. The album was widely praised by the public, artists, and critics, confirming his place as a great star of Brazilian music. Now, Diogo is preparing his eighth studio album and has been touring Brazil with this new show that he now presents in the United States.

ABOUT KARMA DC LIVE MUSIC VENUE:

Location: 2221 Adams Place NE, Washington, D.C. 20018
Karma is a live music concert hall, with plenty of space for guests, a VIP Area, a top-shelf bar, and a great sound system. The venue is for ages 21 and up.
Parking is available off-site. We recommend parking in the paid parking lot. You can reserve parking ahead of time through RunParking.

TICKETS:
Advance sales (while supplies last):

Primeiro lote / batch 1: $45
Segundo lote / batch 2: $55
Terceiro lote / batch 3: $65
Portaria / door: $75 (after 12 p.m. on the day of the show)

VIP tickets:

VIP Side Stage Area for 4 (sofas for 4 + $400 drink minimum required per group): $500
VIP Main Area for 4 (sofas for 4 + $400 drink minimum required per group): $500
VIP Main Area for 2 (sofa for 2 + $200 drink minimum required per group): $250
VIP Floor Area for 4 (sofas for 4 + $250 drink minimum required per group): $500
VIP Floor Area for 2 (sofa for 2 + $125 drink minimum required per group): $250

For requests or questions about custom VIP seating options, please call (202) 450-8541.
Advance sales end at 12 p.m. on the day of the show.
Tickets will be available at the door for $75.
Presented by EducArte.

Weekly music lessons at ABRACE
2023-09-16 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-23 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-30 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-07 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-14 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-21 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-28 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-04 10:00 - 12:00 | McLean High School, 1633 Davidson Rd, McLean, VA, 22101, United States
In partnership with the Associação Brasileira de Cultura e Educação (ABRACE, Brazilian Association of Culture and Education), EducArte offers free weekly music lessons on Saturday mornings for Portuguese-speaking children. Our instructors teach students the basics of Brazilian music, including music theory, history, and practice. All classes are conducted in Portuguese to promote and maintain Brazilian arts, culture, and linguistic heritage language of participating families.
For ABRACE members only. To learn more about ABRACE, visit abracebrasil.org.
Learn more about EducArte’s music program with ABRACE here.
Funders and sponsors:

Pablo Regis Band at Maryland Folk Festival
2023-09-24 14:30 - 15:30 | Downtown Salisbury, Salisbury, MD, 21801, United States
Pablo Regis is a cavaco (string instrument) player, singer, and percussionist performing Brazilian music in the D.C. metro area. He grew up in Los Angeles and Brasília, surrounded by Brazilian music and culture. He is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council 2018 Individual Artist Award. He has also trained in a variety of Brazilian movement styles, including the martial art of capoeira, and frevo and cavalo marinho from the state of Pernambuco.

Pablo Regis at Sandy Spring Museum Summer Beer & Wine Garden
2023-09-29 18:30 - 21:00 | Sandy Spring Museum, 17901 Bentley Road, Sandy Spring, 20860, United States
On the final Summer Beer & Wine Garden evening in September, Sandy Spring Museum is thrilled to feature Pablo’s Baile!
This celebrated DC nightlife event is going to Sandy Spring! An electrifying mix of percussion, passion, and Brazilian Portuguese, Pablo’s Baile showcases the best of live Brazilian dance music, including samba and forró.
Enjoy good eateries, family lawn games, and connections with people from the region’s ever-growing diverse community.

Summer Beer & Wine Gardens are held on the last Friday of June, July, August, and September.
Picnic tables are available on a first-come-first-serve basis. Feel free to bring chairs and blankets.
In the event of inclement weather, the gathering will move indoors.

Admission

$10/adult
$3/age 20 and under
VIP tents (seating for 6) available for $100
20% off for members (online only)

Pablo Regis Band at Echo Arts Festival
2023-10-01 14:30 - 15:30 | Bumper Car Pavilion at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd, Glen Echo, 20812, United States
Pablo Regis and his band will perform Brazilian music at Glen Echo Park on October 1 for their annual Echo Arts Festival, a celebration of visual and performing arts. This FREE event will include a multitude of hands-on activities, live music, and unique opportunities to delve into the arts.

Tiago do Bandolim and Rogério Souza: Choro, Samba, Jazz (Georgetown University)
2023-10-06 12:30 - 13:45 | Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington, DC, 20057, United States
Whether you’re in Rio or NYC, if you’re hearing bossa nova, you might also hear musicians and fans arguing about which influenced which more: jazz or Brazilian music. While they may disagree on how much, they always agree on what: a reciprocal influence nurtured through the golden age of radio, a nascent recording industry, and musicians touring the Americas during the era of the Good Neighbor Policy (1933-1945). Choro-Samba-Jazz is a concert project of vibrant original arrangements of various eras of jazz-influenced Brazilian compositions. It begins with Brazil’s first cohort of the 1930s to 1950s—those choro-samba composers involved and surrounding Brazil’s most successful big band, the Orquestra Tabajara, including its longtime director-saxophonist Severino Araújo, clarinetist K-Ximbinho, and plucked-string virtuoso Zé Menezes, all of whom set the stage musically for the global craze of bossa nova.
The program continues with works by bossa-nova era composers of both choro and bossa nova, including Tom Jobim, Luíz Bonfá, and Baden Powell, and closes with compositions by contemporary composers that have followed this line, including pianist Laércio de Freitas and guitarist-composer Rogério Souza. Tiago do Bandolim, a longtime member of Zé Paulo Becker’s group Choro-Jazz of Bar Semente, is one of the foremost representatives of this lineage among the younger generation of choro-samba players in Rio. His dazzling improvisations and impeccable performances reanimate this long history of creative cross-influence between the US and Brazil.
Tiago do Bandolim is one of the great revelations on bandolim (mandolin) and violão tenor (tenor guitar) in modern Brazil. Influenced by two great icons of Brazilian bandolim, Ronaldo do Bandolim (Tiago’s father) and Jacob do Bandolim, Tiago has been rising to the top as part of a great generation of musicians created in the 2000s in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro—a generation that has mixed traditional choro with the more modern languages of MPB, Latin music, and jazz. Tiago has participated in numerous samba and choro albums as well as the DVDs Brasileirinho, a documentary about choro in Rio de Janeiro, “Histórias de um João de Barro” with Bia Bedran and “Geração Semente.” He has been performing in choro festivals alongside the biggest names of the genre and in presentations in Europe and the USA with the samba groups Unha de Gato, Pé de Moleque, and Semente Choro-Jazz. In 2017, he released his first solo album “De Soslaio” featuring his many influences within choro. In 2018, he formed the big band Choro na Rua, which continues to play some of the most publicized shows in the home of choro, Rio de Janeiro.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Rogério Souza is one of the great representatives of the carioca language of the Brazilian guitar. He has always been involved in big events related to MPB and Brazilian Instrumental Music, mainly “Choro” and “Samba”. worked with great Brazilian musicians with Baden Powell, Paulinho da Viola, Sivuca, Altamiro Carrilho, Paulo Moura, João Bosco, Ivan Lins, Guinga, Turibio Santos, Rafael Rabello, Ginga, Cristovão Bastos, the groups Nó em Pingo D’agua and Grupo Epoca de Ouro, among others. He has played in festivals, cultural spaces, and music universities/schools in various corners of the world such as Japan, China, USA, holding concerts and workshops every year at several universities in the USA: Oberlin, Berklee College of Music, Yale, University of Virginia, JMU, Georgetown, Columbia, Temple, University of Chicago, Notre Dame, SF University, University of California (LA), University of Texas (Valle del Rio Grande), Northern Arizona University, among others.
Specializing in Brazilian choro, guitarist-composer Dr. Stephen Guerra performs at music clubs and concert halls, cultural centers, universities, and guitar societies around the United States and Brazil and has appeared with Rogério Souza, Duo Violão, Tiago do Bandolim, and Regional de NY among others. He’s published music albums, sheet music, and music articles, won creative grants and composer residency fellowships, has a popular YouTube channel, and teaches music at the University at Buffalo.

Brazilian jazz performance (private event)
2023-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 | MD
