Have you ever been wandering around one of the many local street festivals and come across a practical demonstration of something similar to karate but much more acrobatic, perhaps with a touch of ...

The event will include fire shows, acrobatics, martial arts, music, Portuguese songs, drums, and a Samba and Batucada dance performance. Most of our knowledge of Brazil is limited to the popular ...

Once again, in the tradition of cultural fairs and Block Party, we present Domingo do Samba Big Samba Sunday an afternoon to evening event specially made into a Quadra de Samba, or Samba School ...

HAYWARD -- In Brazil, the Rhythm of Samba is everywhere and in just weeks those same sounds will fill the air right here in the Bay Area at San Francisco's 45th annual Carnaval celebration and parade.

It is not very often that we get to hear vibrant Afro-Brazilian sounds live on the island. In fact, there is only one band in the country that plays the heart-racing rhythms of Samba Batucada and ...

One of Halifax's oldest, largest and probably loudest bands is celebrating 30 years of Brazilian percussion and community on Saturday. Samba Nova is a Brazilian-style batucada band that explores ...

The seaside will take on a flavour of Brazil as hundreds of samba performers descend on Brighton and Hove for a weekend extravaganza. More than 20 samba bands from across Europe will take part in the ...

From Rio’s carnival to the televised coverage of the World Cup the rhythm of samba has become such a ubiquitous musical representation of Brazil it is in danger of becoming a cliché. But a new show, ...