From left, Ron McCarley, flute; Grant Chase, bandolim; Shaun Fairfield, violao 7 chordas; Keegan Harshman, drum; and Graham Yates, pandeiro. (Lompoc Music Association ...

While choro isn’t nearly as well known as its younger siblings samba, forro and bossa nova, no Brazilian musical style has proven as enduring and creatively resilient. In Brazil, a new generation is ...

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 ...

Stuart Zobel is the guitarist in the Seattle-based band Choroloco. The band plays music from Brazil called “choro.” Stewart says the infectious rhythms and melodies of the music, and the spirit of ...

As has happened so often in the past, Berkeley is ahead of the cultural curve. Choro, an instrumental Brazilian tradition that was among the first New World musical styles to combine European ...

For perhaps as long as human society has existed, music has existed with it. As civilizations and empires rose and fell, as republics and autocracies collapsed and were reborn, music was there through ...

In this episode the Centrum faculty share their thoughts on what Choro is as well as its impact. SPONSORED: Choro is the blueprint for many Brazilian instrumental genres. It spans centuries, regions, ...