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EDITOR’S NOTE The people who promotes Brazilian Music in New York City that aren’t native Brazilians. They are the “Citizens of the Brazilian Music!”

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I AM VERY PROUD TO ANNOUNCE that our first edition of BOSSA had over 23,000 views in July alone! For many years, I have been thinking and talking about ways to bring and promote Brazilian entertainment in a large scale to NYC and surrounding regions. I realized that the music wasn't enough, people didn't know where to go and learn about the Brazilian Culture. I am captivated to learn the history of many American musicians because of their fascination with Brazilian music. In fact, many have incorporated the music into their lives, as if there were a native Brazilians. In this edition, I’m asking non-Brazilian musicians their views on American culture and how music can cross the boundaries, innovate a string of musical roots and citizens. A new phrase has arisen: “Citizens of Brazilian Music!” We will also present some intriguing people that work behind the scenes, which are very enthusiastic about promoting Brazilian music. I am so curious to know why they invest their time and money to promote our music. These individu- als are the producers, promoters, and DJs, just to name a few. They are responsible in bringing all of us the secret sounds, amusement and unforgettable tunes. For those that do not know anything about Brazilian culture, here is an opportunity to go to one of the events and see the richness of Brazilian art, hear the variety of sounds, rhythms and styles that is existent in our repertoire.

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Elza

as achieved what most people can only dream hof. She has remained a superstar in her field for over six decades, melodically soaring through the ages. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Soares began her professional singing career in the 1950s, when she joined Mercedes Batista on a dazzling samba tour of Argentina. Her popularity grew exponentially when she released her debut Se Acaso Você Chegasse, in which she invoked a Louis Armstrong flavor as she incorporated jazz into samba-scat riffs. IN CONCERT Summer Stage Aug 5ht

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By Greg Caz & Soares Beco Dranoff The unsinkable living legend! of music. She has managed since the ’50s to be many records for them. Odeon’s one of the ew York DJ Greg Caz is a digger, on top of all the musical waves that arrived in great Brazilian [music] labels of all time. They N collector and writer par excellence, Brazil: jazz, bossa, MPB (Música popular go back to 1918 – the first recorded samba, obsessing over vinyl in general and Brazilian brasileira), samba, electronic. Her latest album “Pelo Telefone,” was an Odeon 78. So a lot of music in particular. His keen ear has been A Mulher do Fim do Mundo/The Woman at the great people were on that label, including her. honed through a lifetime of listening to the End of the World got a Latin Grammy award likes of Elis Regina and Chico Buarque, and his for Best Brazilian Album of the Year. She is still fathoms-deep knowledge of Brazilian beats is breaking ground and pushing the envelope on highlighted in an ongoing residency at New every level. York’s Nublu. GREG CAZ: It’s never been easy for Elza, right Béco Dranoff is a similarly passionate and from the very beginning. It’s not like once she focused Brazilian music expert, a former started making records and having hits that it programmer at São Paulo’s Jovem Pan II radio got easier. She just traded one set of problems station and the founder of the Ziriguiboom for a new set of problems, but she’s so strong label, which was founded in 1998 in and just unsinkable, that she’s been able to collaboration with Belgium’s Crammed Discs overcome it all. She’s getting awards and and continues to release quality Brazilian making very cutting-edge new music, and she

music to this day. continues to face difficulty. She’s got her Bossa Negra physical setbacks, but nothing is stopping her, which makes her even more impressive. GREG CAZ: She debuted around 1960 or so, The pair of experts got together to discuss and at the time bossa nova had just really some of the Brazilian music they’re most Elza Soares - Deixa Isso Pra Lá taken off in Brazil the year before with João Gilberto. It was a big thing. She wasn’t exactly passionate about, with a particular focus on a bossa nova artist – she was more towards the indefatigable singer Elza Soares. In this She’s been influential outside of Brazil for a samba – but they needed a marketing hook, condensed excerpt from their conversation, little while now, because as far back as the and because she was this really poor black girl Caz and Dranoff dive into the unique qualities early ’90s and even the late ’80s, rare groove from the favela, some bright light at the label of Soares’ music, and the highs – and lows – DJs in England and Europe always sought out said, “Hey, let’s call you a ’Bossa Negra.’” So that have made her a Brazilian icon. her records, and among the international you have that tag on her first couple of BÉCO DRANOFF: Elza Soares is a giant in Brazilian record collecting scene, her records records. have always been prized. Her version of “Mas Que Nada” has always been a big dancefloor Elza’s Style favorite. She’s had a lot of dancefloor

favorites, but that one in particular has been BÉCO DRANOFF: Her delivery is very jazzy on lots of compilations and DJ mixes. She’s got because she has that raspy voice. I think another song called “Deixa Isso Pra La” which there’s a lot of Ella Fitzgerald influence. There’s is a cover of the Jair Rodrigues classic, which jazz arrangements, jazz and samba, and this many Brazilians say is the first rap song fusion is also bossa nova. because it’s kind of a spoken word flow over a funky beat. She did that record Elza Soares Baterista: Wilson Das Neves with the great GREG CAZ: That was standard in Brazil at the drummer Wilson das Neves, basically rapping time, because all of the record labels and over his drum beat with occasional blasts from studios had their in-house orchestras, guys The Woman at the End of the World this big orchestra. That’s been another DJ who were on loan from the municipal theater favorite for many, many, many years. of Rio or something. So all of their records, no Brazilian music that is finally starting to get the She’s been very influential over a lot ofmatter what the genre was, you had your same worldwide recognition that she deserves. different scenes for a long time, and I seem to arrangers and musicians and orchestras and Everybody in Brazil loves her. Her career has recall a few years back she got a special that was a standard. Even bossa nova itself spanned 50-something years. She has over 35 citation or award from the government of came from guys listening to Stan Kenton and albums and I don’t know how many 78s and Britain, like an MBE (Member of the British the cool jazz school. singles. She is now, at 80-something years old, Empire). For many years she was on Odeon, an iconic performer. She’s getting the which is a very well-known British label, so mainstream recognition of world connoisseurs maybe it’s through that that, as she sold so Continue …..

Take a guy like Jorge Ben, the guy who’s found out that this guy left his family for her. talked about a lot, but then you had other credited with bringing a funky, bluesy, R&B She was called a homewrecker, people would records that were more known sort of within thing to samba and bossa nova, but his early throw stones at her house and she got a lot of Brazil’s border. records are very imbued with samba jazz. If you bad publicity, had shows canceled. She kept look at the musicians on all these records it’s recording through it all. She had the immense BÉCO DRANOFF” Even in Brazil they were hard the same cats who play in jazz bars and who misfortune of having a song out, when the to find. You couldn’t find a real Jorge Ben make their own jazz records. But during the news first hit the media that she was with record. You couldn’t find a good copy of daytime, they play on every kind of pop or Garrincha, called “I Am the Other Woman.” anything. In the early ’90s Brazilians felt the samba or bossa nova record that there is to be The timing could not have beenworse. feedback from Europe. They said, “If the made. You could never really consider Elza a Elza Soares – Elza Pede Passagem Europeans love it, why aren’t we listening to bossa artist just because of the vocal style. The So that went on for a few years. At one point this?” And that’s the magic of all this, how main comparison that people used to make her work had dried up around the late ’60s, Brazilian music was devalued and then was to Louis Armstrong. That kind of rough then she got some offers for work in Italy. So re-evaluated because of what happened in voice in her scatting style was very close to she moved there with Garrincha for a few Europe and Japan. The movement in Europe Louis Armstrong, whereas bossa nova was years, but he was kind of on the downside of made the labels repress them. more about the whisper. his career, too. She came back in the early ’70s and made this record Elza Pede Passagem, GREG CAZ: When Stereolab went to Brazil and BÉCO DRANOFF: So subdued. Apartment mu- which has been one of her most prized records they said “We’re huge Marcos Valle fans,” and sic, they would call it. You had to keep it low so by DJs. There’s a lot of funky songs. Marcos Valle heard this, he invited them to they wouldn’t bother the neighbors. At the time in Brazil a lot of artists werecome visit him. Tim Gane from Stereolab was combining samba with certain rock and black like, “This guy, he’s my guy. I don’t even think GREG CAZ: And so with João Gilberto there is American music influences, you had Jorge Ben that I can handle this.” And kids in Brazil are this very intimate guitar style, where it’s very and Tim Maia coming up, so this record has a like, “Really? That old guy?” intricate and there’s a lot going on, but on the little of that influence going on. She even does surface it’s very quiet. Elza’s the radical a Jorge Ben song here, but she’s still also doing BÉCO DRANOFF: It revived careers. I think the opposite of that. She’s very big and bold and her samba. She wasn’t really making as many magic, the trick is that these artists [finally] brassy. hits during this period, but she was making became cool for Brazilians [of] this generation. very lovely records. Growing up in Brazil, we heard a lot of The Ike and Tina of Brazil international music. This generation of Brazilian BÉCO DRANOFF” Growing up in Brazil in the Elza’s Comeback kids listens to Brazilian music. There are ’60s, she was present. “Mas Que Nada” was a massive parties of Brazilian music now, and major hit when I was a kid, everybody knew it. BÉCO DRANOFF: For Brazilians, she had a major there’s a whole movement that started in the The ’70s were the heyday of MPB, or Brazilian come back with Caetano Veloso. He had an ’90s with the “manguebeat” phenomenon. pop music, but then she was sort of too old album called Velô and he invited Elza for There was a gentleman called Chico Science school for the younger people. You know, she backing vocals on a song called “Língua,” and and there was a whole Recife thing, and their wasn’t tropicalia. She was lost a little in the basically that track reminded everybody that manifesto was “Caranguejos com shuffle in the ’70s and 80s. She was not in the Elza’s still around, Elza still can sing. This was in Cérebro” (which means “Crabs with Brains”), media, not in the mainstream. the early ’80s. That track and that record were because Recifie has the river system so it’s a groundbreaking. Caetano was always city full of crabs, with the internet, with Elza Soares - Mas Que Nada groundbreaking. And I think that track satellites, with global communication. They rekindled interest in her, like, “Oh my God, saw it all coming, and manguebeat made GREG CAZ: The whole [momentum] of her she’s still around. She’s a survivor.” In the ’80s Brazilian music cool for young Brazilians. Now career was invariably tied in with the fact that she started recording again and getting more everything is so available and the kids are she was married to Garrincha, the second most attention, and then coming back to the DJs, the connected and smart and looking and search- famous and legendary soccer player in Brazil, ’90s were amazing. Thank God the English DJs, ing for this. We have national stars from Brazil after Pele. They had a stormy, tempestuous, the acid jazz thing, brought all this Caetano that are global stars now, and we have a lady difficult – BÉCO DRANOFF: Ike and Tina. Veloso & Elza Soares - Lingua. like Elza who’s still connecting to young people. Her album The Woman at the End of the World GREG CAZ: Yes, a relationship like Ike and Tina, GREG CAZ” Yeah, the acid jazz scene did work from 2015 is a very forward-thinking record. because he was a big legend when they won wonders for not just Brazilian music itself, but [One has] to be open-minded enough to [hear the first couple of World Cups, but he also was when it came to Brazilian music the DJs went it]. It has crazy language, crazy beats, crazy a heavy drinker. Further complicating matters beyond the obvious records that people mixes. It’s pushing the envelope until the end is that he had a wife in his hometown and I generally knew. DJs like Joe Davis started going of the world, and she [sings], “I’m gonna sing forget how many kids, and he basically left to Brazil and buying all these other records that until the end. I’m gonna sing until the end.” It’s them and hooked up with her. Brazil is thought were mostly just known inside of Brazil. After fascinating because she really will be singing about as this very liberal, sexy, laissez-faire bossa nova, you had your front rank of MPB until the end. kind of place, but it’s actually quite moralistic artists: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Jorge Ben, and conservative underneath all that, so she Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento. Those were the used to have a lot of problems when people records that got exported a lot and that people By Red Bull Music Academy on May 19, 2017

Concert review

In the dark and intimate setting of an almost sold out Skyline Ballroom, Tiago Iorc steps out inconspicuously and begins to strum the familiar chords of his breakout hit “Amei Te Ver.” Accompanied solely by his guitar, he gives the crowd an acoustic preview of the song that likely introduced him to most of his audience.

When the lights finally come on, the crowd erupts in cheers and applause, as the outstretched arms holding Smartphones can finally capture the beloved singer songwriter that has become the face of a young, folksy pop/MPB genre.

The noticeably young crowd sang along to every song, showing that “Troco Likes”, his second Portuguese language album has resonated as much with his fans abroad as with his domestic audience. As he introduced himself and his show to New York City, he encouraged that the audience participate and even make requests, and they cooperated. Throughout the show, the crowd remained engaged, clapping, singing dueling melodies, and of course, sharing the experience with their followers through social media.

Beyond his own hits, Tiago performed a range of covers that shows the depth of his influences, from Caetano Veloso’s “Sorte” to Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” and The Weeknd’s “Starboy.” Always a crowd favorite, his innovative rendition of Anitta’s “Bang” had the audience on its feet, for an upbeat end to his set. Finally, he returned with his biggest hit, leaving the crowd with the gleeful satisfaction of singing along to his final message to New York City “Eu amei te ver New York” he says as he plays the finals chords. New Yorkers certainly loved seeing him too.

By Geisa Rodrigues

NUBLU Aug 6ht 10:30 pm

THE BATUQUE OF LAN LANH PERFORMANCE

Lan Lahn , is celebrating 30 years of her career this year in New York City!

an Lahn , is celebrating 30 The frevo "Taiane" by Osmar Macedo, years of her career this year Pitada de Tabaco" by Riachão, the afoxés L with her new show in Rio and of the "Bananeira Song”, "Zum Zum she will be performing in New York Preguiça" and the samba "Sereiar", plus her City on August 6th, 2017 at Nublu. own songs from her 2013 album "Mi" (LAB 344) make up the repertory of her show. In her new show she plays Brazilian rhymes from classical composers that have inspired With costumes by Sol Azulay, inspired by her throughout her career. Some of the the afrobrasilian Orixá Ogan, Lan Lanh composers are Jacó do Bandolim, Moacir transforms herself into a powerful, Santos, Dorival Caymmi, Baden Powell, and liberating women. Luiz Gonzaga. She also added some compositions from Eller in Brasil as well as accompanying Cindy Lauper on her last solo album “Mi” and “Batida Nacional” She comes on stage topless and is joined by two tours of Europe. collectives. Her career has been filled with rewarding shirtless male musicians João Felippe Brasil and Guto experiences. She traveled through Brazil, Europe and Lan Lanh brought all her experiences to form a new Menezes. Canada and played with the great Brazilian artists, such band “Lan Lan and the Elaines” featuring as singer, Their melodic arrangements for acoustic guitar, as: Marisa Monte, Cássia Éller, Elba Ramalho, and Tim composer, and producer. viola caipira and cavaquinho give wings to the Maia. Lan have accompanied, Cyndi Lauper during the Hits such as “100 Xurumela” and “Com ela”, were flight of Lan Lanh’s soaring solo percussion. Tour her Memphis Blues shows. played in every corner of Brazil , and their first album with 13 tracks won a coveted award from the São Paulo Critics Association in 2003. In 2004 she was invited by Bahian Emanuelle Araújo to create a samba group which was named by “Moinho, performing re-interpretations of classics by Dorival Caymmi. They soon added new songs to their repertory, and other partners joined them for an unforgettable jam sessions on nights at Lapa. (the bohemian heart of Rio de Janeiro) One of their songs, “Hoje de noite” was recorded by Nando Reis (lead singer of the legendary Brazilian rock group Titãs) and it became the title-track of their first álbum (WEA) which included some of the great names of Brazilian popular music such as Ana Carolina, Chacal and Moraes Moreira. US TOUR In 2013, Lan Lanh teamed up with DJ Deep Lick to produce the solo album “Mi” which resulted in a BrasilSummerfest 2017 partnership which led to songs, shows, She is honored to take the positive vibrations of her Aug 6th—Nublu soundtracks and a collective known as Batida Aug 10th— The Archway, drums, play the Afro Jazz and the history of Brazilian (under Brooklyn Bridge) music to New York City and surrounding areas. Nacional – national beat – a genre-defying mix of Los Angeles: August 12- Fais Do-Do Brazilian rhythms with contemporary inflections San Francisco—Aug 13 - Fluxus Lan’s career began in the 80’s, when she burst into the from international electronic music. The collective scene as the drummer for the band, “Rabo de Saia” in was subsequently joined by the famous Brazilian the State of Bahia. In 1989 she has moved to Rio de Janeiro, immersing herself in the Afro-Brazilian rhythms actress Nanda Costa. of the Batuques and she became one of the most The batuques of the cajóns, atabaques, berimbau and CONTACT renowned of Brazilian percussionists. pandeiros of Lan Lanh begin with the afrosamba She created the rhythm of her own journey, “ Canto de Xangô/Song of Xangô” by Vinícius de [email protected] incorporating a panoply of sound and sharing her Moraes and Baden Powell, the afrojazz “Coisa 4” by talent with some of the greatest names in Brazilian and Moacir Santos before they wrap us up in the sounds of Gisella Chinelli international music such as Carlinhos Brown, Elba her native Bahia. Ramalho, Tim Maia, Titãs, Marisa Monte and Cássia

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SHOW SCHEDULE

Saturday, Aug 5 Thursday, Aug 10 Elza Soares O Terno Liniker e os Caramelows at David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Cen- Teleseen (DJ set) at ter Central Park SumerStage 7pm / Free 6pm-10pm / Free Thursday, Aug 10 Saturday, Aug 5 Aline Muniz Strobo at Joe’s Pub Eduardo Brechó of Aláfia (DJ set) at Nublu 7:30pm / $15 10pm / $10 Friday, Aug 11 Sunday, Aug 6 Lívia Nestrovski & Fred Ferreira Liniker e os Caramelows Tim Bernardes (of O Terno) O Terno at Joe’s Pub Lan Lanh 6pm / $15 at Nublu 7pm / $15 Adv / $20 Door Friday, Aug 11 Film: Tim Maia Monday, Aug 7 directed by Mauro Lima at Film: Tropicália Museum of the Moving Image directed by Marcelo Machado 7:30pm / $15 at The New School 8pm / Free Saturday, Aug 12 Zabelê Tuesday, Aug 8 Alexia Bomtempo Rodrigo Campos at The Django at NaturaBrasil Store 8pm / $20 6pm / Free Sunday, Aug 13 Wednesday, Aug 9 Street Fair + Block Party Forro in the Dark Food vendors, music, products at Brooklyn Public Library at Hester Street Fair 6:30pm / Free 12pm-6pm / Free

Thursday, Aug 10 Batuque da Lan Lanh at The Archway, Manhattan Bridge 6:30pm / Free

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Petrit Pula—The Producer INTERVIEW By Madalena Sousa

The Black and White of

BrasilSummerFest

he man behind the organization of BrasilSummerFest talks about his involvement with Brazilian Music T which for many years has been part of his life.

Mr. Pula's career in music began as a DJ. During his studies in Why did you choose Brazilian music? business school which he completed in 2003 with a BBA degree from Baruch College, Mr. Pula was DJ-ing at various clubs in It came natural. I was a fan of Brazilian music ever since I was New York. In 2005, Mr. Pula joined Nublu Records, an introduced to it in my college days and throughout the years of independent record company based in New York. For the past working with Brazilian artists, the passion and connection only eight years, Mr. Pula has overseen the company's operations deepened. Brazilian music is also loved and celebrated across including distribution, marketing, promotions and artisticthe world, and the festival aims to especially present direction for it's worldwide releases. In 2009, Mr. Pula joined contemporary music of Brazil, which many times fails to the Nublu Jazz Festival team as co-producer. The festival transcend across its borders. presents a blend of jazz and contemporary music each year in cities of New York, São Paulo and Istanbul. The festival hasWhat makes you keeping promoting? presented artists such as Roy Ayers, Robert Glasper Experiment, Dom Salvador, Sun Ra Arkestra and many more. In 2011, BrasilSummerFest has really been a labor of love since the Mr. Pula founded Brasil Summerfest, a Brazilian music festival beginning. I am connected to the music, I love discovering new mainly focused on contemporary music & culture of Brazil. talent and am excited to share that with the city I live in. It’s as Brasil Summerfest quickly became a landmark cultural festival simple as that. I want to see BrasilSummerFest continue for in New York City and the most important showcase for Brazilian decades to come because I believe that Brazil deserves a music in the United States presenting artists such as Seu Jorge, distinguished music & arts festival in NYC, the cultural capital of Criolo, Bebel Gilberto, Emicida, Nação Zumbi, Marcelo D2, any the world. many more. Petrit has also produced and curated cultural events such as The Lot LIC Music & Film Series and France Rocks What do you expect of the future of Brazilian Music? and continues to present groundbreaking shows year round through his company People Time Entertainment. Music will evolve and Brazil will continue to play a key role in the world’s musical landscape. Brazilian music always finds a When did you get involved with promoting Brazilian music? way to reinvent itself and that is critical. The entire Brazilian music culture is a treasure — it is sad that Brazil as a country My first experience in promoting Brazilian music was through does little to promote one of its greatest cultural exports. But Nublu when I was running the record company. During this music has no boundaries and it will continue inspire and bring time, I got a chance to work with many extraordinary Brazilian people together. Brazilian music certainly does that. artists and musicians and had the opportunity to promote their music across the country. This took place from 2005 up until 2014. In 2011, I launched Brasil Summerfest with an aim to See detail schedule next page or online build a platform for these artists to showcase their music to a wider New York audience. I believed that Brazilian music www.brasilsummerfest.com deserved a bigger audience and a dedicated festival.

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Luiz Simas Singer/Pianist/Composer

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Interview with Luiz Simas MUSIC Interview

The singer, pianist and composer Luiz Simas moved to New York City in 1989. Today he talks about the beginning of his trajectory as a musician in Brazil and his success in the Big Apple.

Luiz, when was your first encounter with You mentioned Globo's “Plim-Plim", I thought that was a great endeavor, music? what is that? and I served as their Vice-President for about 3 years. I’m now on their advisory Luiz: I began studying piano when I was Luiz: It’s the trademark sound for Rede board, and happy to see that so many 4 years old, and wrote my first Globo, which became very well known in great projects are being fulfilled by BMF composition when I was 6. My favorite Brazil and in the rest of the world. for the benefit of all lovers of Brazilian classical composers at that time were music. Bach and Chopin, but I also loved listening When did you move to United States to Brazilian popular music on the radio. and why? I also participated in several of BMF’s I was in my teens when bossa-nova took events and workshops. One of them was over Rio. Bossa-nova was an instant I had two daughters from my first a workshop I gave entitled "Singing in revelation for me. I fell in love with marriage, and in 1989 I came here to be Portuguese". It was truly gratifying to see its beautiful harmonies, minimalistic near them. I started playing piano in that with a little coaching, participants melodies, and sunny, clever lyrics. I played restaurants, but had to do all sorts of jobs learned how to sing Brazilian popular a little acoustic guitar at that time (my to make a living. songs in Portuguese so well. Another first guitar teacher was the now famous event I participated in was the samba singer Beth Carvalho), and I started How is your career as musician today? "International Choro Festival", with a composing bossas and meeting friends in performance in duo with mandolin player endless jam sessions in each other’s Luiz: I’ve built a large following, Marilynn Mair. This was an outstanding apartments. Music was all around us. consolidating my career giving concerts festival in New York, with several in the US, in Europe and in Brazil. exceptional choro groups and solo artists When did you start playing with a band? I’ve recorded several CDs, including one from Brazil and from the US. with my original chorinhos on piano Luiz: I was part of a bossa-nova group (“New Chorinhos from Brazil”), a CD of called "Agora 4” which got a record deal my music with a large ensemble and participated in important song (“Cafuné”), and a classical piano suite festivals in Rio. In the beginning of the (“Mata Atlântica [Atlantic Forest]”). 70’s I joined the Brazilian rock band

“Modulo 1000”, which became very My compositions have been recorded by popular among young folks in Rio but was Hendrik Meurkens, Marilynn Mair, Kenia, ignored by the media. The band became Benji Kaplan and other artists. recently a worldwide cult (!!!), and our LP was reissued in Germany and in England. Are you involved in other projects? 2nd International Choro Festival—2016 Original copies of this LP are worth a Presented by the Brazilian Music Foundation thousand dollars among collectors. I then What is next? purchased a synthesizer, the first one in Brazil, and became the number one Luiz: I have many projects for the I really believe that the Brazilian synthesizer studio musician, recording immediate future: a CD with guitarist Music Foundation is a vital organization with dozens of Brazilian artists and Wesley Amorim, a new solo piano CD, a uniquely positioned to foster the creating Globo’s “Plim-Plim” sound. CD with my trio, and concerts advancement and teaching of Brazilian Afterwards I formed the progressive-rock everywhere… Music in New York. group Vimana with Lulu Santos, Candinho and Fernando Gamma (Lobão and Ritchie Also, a few years ago I was invited by By Madalena Sousa/Editor In Chief joined it later). This group was also a hit Madalena Sousa, the founder and among young people, but the media president of the Brazilian Music wasn’t interested in Brazilian rock - yet. Foundation (BMF), to join her on the Website When Brazilian rock became a success in board of directors and help the the 80’s, I was already on my way to the organization foster the promotion www.luizsimas.com States. and teaching of Brazilian music in the US and abroad.

INTERVIEW By Madalena Sousa

Why Brazilian Music?

Does anyone else in your family listen to Brazilian Music? My father liked Jobim. What are your fondest Brazilian musical memories? Performing in Rio for the first time with Dom Salvador, as well as recording my album in Santa Teresa...that was magical. I also have great memories of performing with Helcio Milito in Monterey, CA. Were you influenced by old records from Brazil ? When I was very young, my parents had recordings of aura Dreyer is a jazz woodwind player and the French singer Claudine Longet singing bossa novas. composer living in New York City who I didn’t start listening to Brazilian music seriously L grew up in California. The relaxed California until I was in my late 20s. My early favorites were vibe might be one of the reasons that she loves and Toninho Horta, Elis Regina, and Djavan. identifies with Brazilian music and culture. For as long as she has been a musician, she has been attracted to Who are your favorite Brazilian musicians? Groups? Brazilian music, but it was really when she started getting CD's? serious about being a composer that her interest really I love Tom Jobim (of course), Caetano Veloso, Dori peaked. Caymmi, Nana Caymmi, Egberto Gismonti, Eumir Deodato, João Donato, Joyce, Toninho Horta, Marcos She said: Valle, Maria Rita, Tania Maria… there are so many more. “Brazil has no shortage of talent in the composition The album, entitled “Vida. Arte. Amor.,” (Mayimba Jazz) department, and I soon discovered that Brazilian music is available on Amazon and itunes. was all I really wanted to listen to. But, playing and composing Brazilian music required that I really dedicate Through the Brazilian Music Foundation, I have had the years to research and immersion.” Luckily, New York has a opportunity to perform in the International Choro great Brazilian music community, which I was able to tap Festival, as well as to lead Brazilian rhythm workshops into. for melodic instruments. I hope to return to Brazil soon to explore more cities, and musical styles, and to drink Laura talks about her connections with Brazilian music and more caipirinhas! why she started playing and never stopped. Laura plays saxophone, flute, clarinet, and piano. CONTACT What was the first Brazilian tune(s) you learned? Meditação”

Is your family musical? lauradreyer.com They like music, but were not musicians.

THE BRAZILIAN PERCUSSION INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN MUSIC. HISTORY BRAZILIAN PERCUSSION IN THE UNITED STATES (PART 1) – BY MILA SCHIAVO

August is a month to celebrate the Brazilian Nana Vasconcelos, Percussion influence on American Music. The Dan Gottlieb, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays rhythmic coincidence happened because three of the and Steve Rodby: most prestigious Brazilian percussionists and Picture from the drummers that lived in the United States, Dom Um Album “Pat Matheny Romão, Nana Vasconcelos and Airto Moreira, were live at midland” born during the month of August.

Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos, was born in Recife on August 2nd 1944, the city capital of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. He first learned to play the drum kit and then moved on to berimbau, a single-string percussion instrument, a Dom Um Romão , musical bow from Brazil but originally from Africa. He made his career Jobim & Frank Sinatra abroad, living in the United States and France, being recognized seven Photo from times as the world’s best percussionist by US DownBeat magazine Verve Records and also honored with eight Grammy Awards. Throughout his career performed as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with artists such as Pat Matheny, Don Cherry, Egberto Gismont, Gato Barbieri, Milton Nascimento, B.B. King, Ella Fitzgerald and Don Cherry. In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. Vasconcelos was diagnosed with lung cancer Dom Um Romão was born in Rio de Janeiro on August 3rd in 2015 and died from the disease on 9 March 2016, in Recife, Brazil. 1925 and became a professional in the late '40s, In my opinion he was the most important drummer of the Bossa Nova movement. In 1958, he participated in the Bossa Nova initial milestone, Elizeth Chick Corea, Stanley Cardoso's album “Canção do Amor Demais” and was responsible Clarke, Joe Farrel and for taking Elis Regina from TV to the Beco das Garrafas Airto Moreira: Picture (the birthplace of the Bossa Nova), where in the early 60s he joined from the album the Bossa Rio Sextet with Sergio Mendes. He was a drummer at the “Return to Forever famous Carnegie Hall concert in 1962 and performed with Sergio Stockholm Live” Mendes' Bossa Rio Sextet and saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. After the concert he settled in the USA and worked in Chicago with vocalist Oscar Brown Junior. In 1967, he was invited to participate on the LP Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, a studio album by Frank Sinatra and Antônio Carlos Jobim. The tracks were Also from August, Airto Moreira was born on the 5th day of the arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman, accompanied by a month, in 1945. He was a member of the samba jazz pioneers studio orchestra and as far as I know, the only musician request Sambalanço Trio and also part of the Hermeto Pascoal’s Quarteto that the Antônio Carlos Jobim did for the orchestra was that he Novo in 1967. Shortly after, he moved to the US and started to play wanted a Brazilian drummer, so Dom Um Romão was invited to join with jazz musicians in New York. He met Miles Davis and for two the group. years was part of his band, during the creation of the revolutionary jazz-fusion album Bitches Brew (1970). He recorded Weather Report’s debut album in 1971 and in 1972 joined Chick Corea’s new band He was also part of the jazz-fusion band Weather Report during the “Return to Forever”. Moreira has played with many of the greatest recording of their fifth album Mysterious Traveller, voted as the names in jazz including, Lee Morgan, Paul Desmond, Dave Holland, album of the year (1974) by readers of Downbeat. The album Jack DeJohnette, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, All Di Meola, Zakir peaked at #2 in the Billboard Jazz album chart, #31 in the R&B Hussain, George Duke and Santana. Also a composer, he contributed album chart and #46 in the Billboard chart. During the 70s he to television and film scores such as Apocalypse Now and Last Tango established his own rehearsal studio in New York, the Black Beans in Paris. Airto lives in the United States with his wife, singer Flora Studio and for the rest of his life he played with bands and artists Purim. like Blood Sweat and Tears, Tony Bennett, Paul Simon, Cannonball Sources: Adderley, Dom Salvador, Flora Purim, Stan Getz, among many http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ilustrad/fq2707200525.htm other. He suffered a stroke on 24 July, 2005 during a recording session with pianist Ricardo Leão and died a few days later. https://www.ebiografia.com/nana_vasconcelos/ http://www.airto.com

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Susan Pereira—voice, percussion, piano

Noah Bless—trombone

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SUSAN PEREIRA INTERVIEW By Madalena Sousa Susan Pereira and Sabor Brasil—Tudo Azul

What are your fondest Brazilian musical memories? V ocalist, pianist, percussionist, composer 1. Playing tamborim in the bateria of G.R.E.S. and arranger Susan Pereira is one of the most versatile musicians on New York’s Brazilian São Clemente in Rio’s Sambódromo during music scene, and leads the acclaimed Brazilian Carnaval in 1987 and 1988. jazz group Sabor Brasil (co-founded with drummer Vanderlei Pereira). While deeply 2. Being in Recife for Carnaval and witnessing rooted in traditional Brazilian styles, Susan’s the Noite dos Tambores Silenciosos. broad background in jazz and world music has enabled her to develop a distinct musical 3. Meeting so many of my Brazilian music he- personality. Fluent in Portuguese, she is a sing- roes over the years, both here in New York How do you describe your experience being er who blends a silky, rich tone with superior and in Brazil. part of grand opening of BMFSOM and now vocal technique, and is a particularly skilled being one of their vocal teacher? lyric interpreter and scat singer. Were you influenced by old records from Bra- zil ? Which ones? I was so pleased to participate in the inaugural Susan’s percussive piano style is enhanced by concert of BMFSOM and honored to be asked to her mastery of complex Brazilian rhythms and My parents had traveled to Brazil way before join the teaching Faculty. BMFSOM is an her original Brazilian jazz compositions are a important new organization that will further I got into Brazilian music and brought back a Brazilian musical and cultural visibility in North popular part of her performances. Susan Pereira and record of that year’s Carnaval sambas. That’s Sabor Brasil have appeared at Lincoln Center, America through education. what piqued my interest in exploring Brazilian the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Jazz music beyond bossa nova. Tell us about your Brazilian Music CD. in June (Lincoln, Nebraska), the Savannah Jazz

Festival, the Hartford Jazz Festival, Dizzy’s Club Who are your favorite Brazilian musicians? My CD, Tudo Azul, features five of my original Coca-Cola, Iridium and Birdland, among many Rhythm? Groups? CD's? compositions as well as my arrangements of other notable venues. well-known Brazilian (and one American)

It’s impossible for me to name favorite songs. The musical styles include various types How and when did you get involved with Bra- musicians or styles, as I listen to and have been of samba, baião, maracatu and more, and the zilian music? influenced by both the well-known artists and tracks are a mix of traditional vocals, vocalese

composers as well as the more obscure ones, and instrumentals. In addition to the core Of course as a jazz musician I knew the Jobim from just about every region and musical band, there are wonderful guest appearances bossa nova classics, but I got involved on a genre Brazil has to offer. (OK, maybe not dupla by Claudio Roditi, Romero Lubambo, Hendrik deeper level with Brazilian music and culture sertaneja). The breadth and diversity of Meurkens and Luis Bonilla. by delving into samba percussion. I attended Brazilian music is astounding! the first samba batucada class at the What's next? Drummer’s Collective and basically never left. Do you perform in public? Describe those occa- My next gig with Sabor Brasil is Saturday, I played (primarily surdo) for many years in sions? Concerts, radio, TV? August 26th at the Cornelia Street Café. Grupo Batucada and its successor, Samba One set only at 10:30 p.m. Novo, in which I also sang. I perform primarily with my own Brazilian jazz group, Sabor Brasil, at venues and festivals Do you believe that Brazilian Music captivated both in NYC and around the country. I also the world? perform with Blindfold Test, led by drummer Vanderlei Pereira. I freelance with various Yes, absolutely! groups in Brazilian music as well as several other genres, as a vocalist, pianist or percus- CONTACT Is your family musical? sionist. [email protected] I would say that my immediate family is musically sensitive and appreciative, but no one studied or played seriously.

WKCR with my groups on 3 occasions, 2 shows de What was the first Brazilian tune(s) you learned? voted to my original music written in Brazilian Probably Jobim - “Wave” and “ Once I loved “ as a genres. The last few months I play choro young guy learning Jazz. very Saturday at the Samba Kitchen and Bar in midtown Manhattan.

What are your fondest Brazilian musical memories? What do you expect of the future of Brazilian Music? There are too many. Playing with Hermeto, playing I want to see the great instrumental music of Brazil with Carlinhos Leite. Having a trio and playing with more widely disseminated and appreciated. I think Erivelton Silva. Playing with Rogerio Souza and there should be more improvisors who can draw on a resource, a reference like Baden Powell to expand the Rodrigo Lessa my dear friends in Rio in 2004 Rio language of music. His phrases and techniques draw Scenarium and other venues. My first groups in NYC on a history of percussion and guitars that had been with Artu Eliachar - guitarist and singer. My own band through such varying human hands. I'd like to see with Leco Reis, Rob Curto etc... There is so much to choro music that reflects intelligence, a survey of remember. emotions not just a recent music that relies heavily on virtuosity, mechanistic techniques or self reference. Brazil is in crisis right now. Many people I Who are your favorite Brazilian musicians? Rhythm? hear are suffering. Can instrumentalists reflect on Groups? CD's? that? Can rage be directed in an intelligent way through the compositions coming out of Brazil? Music I love Baden Powell, Arismar Espiritu do Santos, Hermeto can be a landscape giving a portrait of how a community is Pascoal, Rogerio Souza and Ronaldo do Bandolim, I love so feeling, how they are getting through everyday life. I would Billy Newman is a guitarist, composer and educator many composers like Nicanor Texeira, Joao Pernambuco, believe that even Choro music and the most abstract Instrumental can be constructions that reflect on that. currently performing and teaching in the New York Garoto, Baden, Pixinguinha, and Guerra Peixe.

area. In the last years he has been especially focused on Brazilian music and his own original music though Were you influenced by old records from Brazil ? Do you believe that Brazilian Music captivated the he never cease playing Jazz regularly. Which ones? world? So many “Transcribing Dino” from Jacob do Bandolim No, there is not enough great Brazilian music in the Which instruments do you play? records, Baden Powell in the sixties, Quinteto Violado, ears of America. They just know a little Bossa Nova. Edu Lobo, the early piano trio of Hermeto with Airto, Six string Guitar and Cavaquinho. I also used to play It's horrible how ignorant are Americans about the pandeiro and at times seven string guitar. Bola Sete's records, Joao Gilberto etc...... parallel world of this giant country Brazil. There is not enough comparative study in School and I think

racism plays a large part. When did you get involved with promoting Brazilian Did you record any CD with Brazilian Tunes? music? Three full Cds with Brazilian tunes in 2006, 2012 and I had a very successful show at Cornelia Street Cafe 2016. My first two are sextets, all original music, and How do you describe your experience being part of with Rogerio Souza in 2010 and they asked me to my last is solo violão has Choro standards and more. 2nd International Choro Festival in 2015 presented by curate Brazilian music. It's been going since this time. I In between I did a few EPs, one I'm very proud of is 6 Brazilian Music Foundation? had been playing in Brazilian music groups since 94. original choros recorded with Regional style ensemble It was challenging to put a band together and do some featuring myself and Rogerio Souza, Hadar Noiberg, really tough Choros and originals to perform. I enjoyed Why did you choose Brazilian music? Dennis Lichtman and Tom Armstrong. the experience. I really had fun when Madalena I went to Brazil for the first time many years ago Sousa , BMF’s Executive Director, has me play 7 string during the Sarney period with money saved for 6 What makes you keeping promoting? with BMF Choro Collective Band featuring Jorge Continentino Sergio Krakowski, and Laura Dreyer for months with the intention to learn Portuguese and I want a space for the musicians making creative see what was there. I got to meet Hermeto Pascoal Brazilian music here in NYC and a place for the visiting the opening ceremony. and his band and play with them at his house in his artists. Brazilian instrumental music needs promotion. rehearsals a number of times. I met the teenage Improvisors within Brazilian genres need What's next? Eduardo Neves - tenor sax and flute and Xande promotion. Brazil outside the clichés needs more I'm writing music for strings and classical setting, Figueredo - drummer. They wrote out rhythms for me exposure here - figures like Arthur Kampela - Avant studying orchestration. I'm continuing to arrange my and introduced me to the styles. Brazilian composer and Rubens Salles - pianist and own music for sextet , quintet and regional and Henrique Costa Lima helped me record Baden Powell, composer - very original. adding to this already large repertoire of music I've Cartola and Choro music from his dad's collection. created. I hope to put more time into finding new I was really tuned in to the everyday struggles of Do you perform in public? Describe those occasions? venues and audiences. It's been great the last few Brazilian people while living there, all their joys and the Concerts, radio, TV? months to play a duo choro project with Guitarist frustrations and this endeared me to the country and Yes, always! I just did a festival at NYU and was Stephen Guerra. music. I loved all that could be expressed in playing in two of the groups. I perform my originals Portuguese. I loved all the new friends I made and a regularly at Cornelia Street Cafe with my own quintet. few from my first time became lifelong friends. Contact: billynewman.com I have done various festivals in the Northeast area

Getting passionate about the music was quite even at times playing cavaquinho with dancers and an natural. I was totally into Jazz and there were so many "Escola de Samba". I love doing Libraries and elements in Brazilian music that were parallel to what I community auditoriums where you have personal loved about Jazz. contact with the listeners. I've performed live on

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arthly Textures Art Exhibition International Contemporary Art Society - New York (ICAS) displays works highlighting Ehow the natural world manifests in international art.

The International Contemporary Art Society opens “Earthly Textures”, a Mini solo exhibition by Luzia Castaneda and guest curated group Ca Degur, Nicolas Savine, Jackson Carvalho and Eric Henty, highlighting how the natural world manifests itself in art. Featuring paintings and photographs, whether through medium or subject, all pieces in display contain earthly materials.

In the spotlight is the work of Luz Castaneda, a Brazilian artist-scientist in New York working on her current project “Urban Orixás”, a cultural research about the force of nature in urban centers.

Earthly showing a collection of paintings, photographs, and mixed media, Luz Castañeda, searches for the forces of nature (The Orixás) and how they are expressed in an urban environment. Orixás means a spirit or deity that reflects one of the manifestations of God. They are worshipped in religions around the world such as Candomblé, in Brazil, and traditional African religions. Luz’ s work intends to show that this Afro- Brazilian tradition can be recognized in any urban scenery.

Jackson Carvalho (Brazil) will present a strong series called Embryos, dedicated to the building of body sculptures. Ca Degur (Brazil) with her sensitive contemporary eye for the nature, brings her series with delicate flowers. Nicolás Savine (France) will showcase his landscape observation, with beautiful cold scenarios of the poles, as Eric Henty (USA) extracts a strong Brazilian reference from Earth, composing a truly Brazilian symphony.

The exhibition is curated by Alcinda Saphira with the assistance of Hyo Eun Lee, Gabriel Hamsi and Roberta Moreno. Cocktails sponsored by Cachaça Leblon, representing the Art of Cachaça, the truly typical Brazilian beverage.

For more information, visit: www.artsvgallery.com or call: (646) 922 7052 About Saphira & Ventura Gallery Founded by the international art curator Alcinda Saphira and the entrepreneur Louis Ventura, Saphira & Ventura Gallery opened for business in 2008, and since them has represented artists from several countries, acquiring Saphira & Ventura Gallery great success worldwide. Initially located in Midtown Manhattan, July 19th—August 31st, 2017 the gallery soon expanded to Singapore and Brazil (São Paulo). The 4 West 43rd Street, Suite 415 - New York, NY - 10036 space has curated museum-quality exhibitions of talented emerging artists and historical greats, such as Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Frida Khalo, Jackson Pollock, among other timeless masters.

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UBAN ORIXÁS Luz Castaneda uses the wisdom and context of African and Indigenous Brazilian uzia Castañeda is a visual Artist, Scientist, and Spiritual traditions in her paintings. She Medium. Luzia’s work and research has taken her from the calls them “natural forces” prestigious campuses of the State University of Campinas L found that she finds in building - UNICAMP (where she earned her Ph.D. in Genetics), and later and objects around the New teaching at Pontificia Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC-SP York City. She claims it can be (where she spearheaded innovative work in the field of History of recognized in any metropo- Genetics in Brazil) and helped to create the first Graduate Program lis. She finds in Manhattan in History of Science in Latin America to her present day research iconic images in areas for her upcoming body of visual artwork by scaling New York City’s like: Wall St., 911 Memorial, Concrete Canyons.Luz Castaneda uses the wisdom and context IBM & Madison Avenue, of African and Indige- historical periods, and nous Brazilian traditions architecture throughout city in her paintings. She calls and render alternative mean- them “natural forces” ings. These paintings, as a part found that she finds in of a larger body work, reflects building and objects the Sacred and mundane around the New York worlds that coexist in the grand landscape of modernity. City. She claims it can be recognized in any metropolis. Urban Orixas The concept of axé is an affirmation of faith in the divine power of is the artistic and cultural the universe as a place where human beings can derive strength and energy from the celestial world of the orixás. research about the force of nature(Orixas) in the urban centers. Urban Oxossi

The orixás are considered to be deified ancestors who, when alive, established control over certain forces of nature such as thunder, the wind, the fresh or salt waters, as well as specific activities such as hunting, metalworking, and knowledge of the qualities and uses of plants. Each orixá also represents a certain aspect of nature both inside and outside of the religious context. For example: Oxalá corresponds to the air that we breathe and Oyá/Iansã to the winds; Iemanjá is found in the oceans and on beaches; Oxum can be found in the rivers and waterfalls; to contact Oxóssi, the hunter; Ogum, the warrior; and Ossaim, who rules the sacred leaves, the clue is in the forests and to get close to Xangô, the god of thunder and lightning, one goes to a stone quarry as it is very dangerous to be In the Candomblé philosophy, axé is also defined as the power to close to a lightning rod. make things happen! It is the power to invoke, to create light, or a pathway of positive energy. Symbolically expressed most After the death of the orixá-ancestor, his or her power could be profoundly in a religious context in the terreiro [temple] through transmitted momentarily to one of its descendants, or initiated ceremonial dances, gestures, rhythms, songs, clothing, colors and devotees during the state of trance procession in the religious a systemized code of religious practice and behavior, the orixás ceremony. When this possession takes place in the body of a create a spiritual link between orun – the heavens and aiyé – the devotee, a particular divine force or positive energy is passed onto earth. the community called axé. (Pierre Verger 1981: 18) CONTACT Read more… Source: http://www.soulbrasil.com/home/orixas-the- divine-forces-of-nature/ luz.castaneda@m

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JACKSON CARVALHO—PHOTOGRAPHY ART

By Madalena Sousa

Jackson Carvalho studied photography at ICP— International Center of Photography in New York, the IIF - International Institute of Photography of São Paulo and Future London Academy of London among others. He also learned directly with major international masters like Peter Coulson ((Australia) Settimmio Beneducci (Italy C CORPORE Stephen Hurst (USA).I In the

In his photography, Jackson CORPOSE series, Carvalho covers several the author seeks topics such as Wildlife, Landscapes, Fine Arts and the construction Cityscape, always with a of provocative very peculiar perspective and subliminal and a creative streak in his forms. Whoever compositions and chromatic observes can approach and a black and interact with the white marked by high levels photography and of contrast. their own “self”. In his conceptual works, Jackson directs his models for strong and dramatic expressions associated with creativity contained in the topics under which deals with his photographic art. Exhibition: July 19th—August 20th, 2017 Saphira & Ventura Gallery

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a Degur—Brazilian music Magazine C Having a promising career as a Conceptual Photography, for the Brazilian photographer Ca Degur, photography is a life time dream come true. First graduated in Industrial Design, she explores her design expertise in her artistic photography.

About the flowers on my way project:

Flowers on my way, is a conceptual project. Flowers that was found in my every day way and will last forever in my photographic work. Each and everyone of them represents a different day, a diferente moment, a different emotion. Together the flowers tell a history. The imperfect flowers wirdly have an incredible attractive beauty. Sublime.

"The work is solid, you have a strong vision and a great sense of putting a series together. Each of your shots is eloquent, well done and show a lot of your appreciation and commitment to the Exhibition: July 19th—August 20th, 2017 work. you have cared for the lighting to be equal, the flor to be on the right angle for the composition." "This is a strong project Saphira & Ventura Gallery and I have no doubt that I will see more of your work out in the 4 West 43rd Street, Suite 415 world.” Lens Culture New York, NY - 10036 more about Ca Degur:

In 2010/11 something really deep transforms my reality. Both my http://cadegur.photoshelter.com parents died and my daughter was born, such emotional facts needed to be expressed, and photography became the my way to do it. By transferring my emotions and feelings to my work, I made myself a better and more complete person.

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GNR Presents A multimedia collective show that brings together a wide range of works July 7-Sept 1 representing the gallery. Galerie Nara Roesler (Manhattan).

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INFINIT GAME - An exploration of infinity by Vanessa Rosa, Veronica Na- tividade and Wenqi Li. AUG 3-24 Babycastles Art Gallery (145 14th Street, Manhattan) Opening reception: August 3 at 7:00 PM

ANOTHER GESTURE: ByEine weitere Geste/Um Outro Gesto” with works by fe- male german and Brazilian artists (Veronika Hilger, Svenja Kreh, Alice Quaresma and Teresa Viana). Curated by Cynthia Cruz and Tatiane Santa Rosa AUG 3—20 A.I.R Gallery (155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn) Opening reception August 3 @ 6:00 P - 8:00 PM

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Important Dates in Brazilian Music History: Roberto Carlos, Wanderléa e Erasmo Carlos. August 22nd 1965: Jovem Guarda airs for the first time on Rede Record. The musical television show hosted by Roberto Carlos, and featuring some of the most popular singers of the time soon became a movement, dictating not only their young fans’ musical taste, but fashion, behavior, and language. Their style was heavily influenced by foreign Rock and Roll stars of the late 50s and 60s, coming to be nicknamed “iê-iê-iês”, due to the heavy use of yeah-yeah-yeahs inspired by bands like The Beatles (She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah). Though the show only aired for a short 3 years, the Jovem Guarda Era was an incredibly popular and influential period, giving rise to an unique style of romantic music and artists such as Erasmo Carlos, Wanderléia, Ronnie Von, Silvinha, Ed Wilson, Reginaldo Rossi, etc.

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Brazilian Musicians born in August

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1 - Ney Matogrosso—MPB singer 17 - Antônio Candeia Filho—Important 6 - Adoniran Barbosa—Composer Samba singer and composer 6 - Baden Powell Aquino—Guitarist 17 - João Donato de Oliveira Neto— 7 - Caetano Veloso—Singer/guitarist/ Pianist, arranger, singer, and composer composer 17 - Ronaldo Luís Antonucci—Member of 8 - Preta Gil— Pop singer (Preta Maria Jovem Guarda duo “Os Vips” Gedelha Gil Moreira) 17 - Ed Motta - Singer 10 - Fafá de Belém (Maria de Fátima 19 - Chico Viola - (Francisco Alves) - MPB Palha de Figueiredo) - Pop singer singer, 10 - Agepê—(Antonio Gilson Porfírio) 20 - Pedrinho Mattar—Great Pianist Samba singer and composer 23 - Paula Toller—Vocalist of Rock band 12 - Clara Nunes—MPB Star Kid Abelha 13 - Beto Guedes—(Alberto de Castro 27 - Sandra de Sá—MPB singer Guedes) Violinist, singer, and composer 27 - Sylvia Telles—MPB singer 14 - Cyro Pereira—Maestro, composer, 28 - Paula Fernandes—Sertanejo singer arranger, and pianist composer, and arranger 14 - Eliana Pittman—Popular singer 29 - Edu Lobo—MPB singer 15 - Leandro (Luiz José Costa) - Singer of 31 - Jackson do Pandeiro— (José Gomes Duo Leandro & Leonardo Filho) - Singer and composer 16 - Odair José de Araújo—Popular Singer 31 - Emilinha Borba—Pop Singer, Radio 17 - Elba Ramalho—MPB singer Era. 17 - Zezé Di Camargo—(Mirosmar José de Camargo) Sertanejo singer and composer

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*FREVO FRIEND: $50 • Tax deductible. • VIP Pre-Sale Access for all BMF’s season tickets BENEFITS and select events. • Unlimited tickets discounts for BMF Concerts • Tax deductible. and several neighborhood concerts. • VIP Pre-Sale Access for all BMF’s season tickets and • Donor-exclusive raffles of free Tickets. select events. • Donor-exclusive raffles and CD/DVD discounts. • Unlimited tickets discounts for BMF’s concerts and • Upgrade seating priority for 2 tickets to a BMF several neighborhood Concerts. Concert.

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• Tax deductible. Your contribution will help to support local • VIP Pre-Sale Access for all BMF ‘s season tickets musicians by creating more seasonal Brazil- and select events. ian music events for the community. • Unlimited tickets discounts for BMF’s concerts and several neighborhood concerts. • Donor-exclusive raffles of free tickets. • Donor-exclusive raffles and CD/DVD discounts.

Your contribution will also help to support "The Future of Our Kids' s *ALL RHYTHMS FRIEND project which give thousands of kids the opportunity to learn music and PATRON: $500 & above" feel that they are part of our society. BENEFITS

• Tax deductible *BAIÃO FRIEND: $150 • VIP Pre-Sale Access for all BMF concerts. • Unlimited tickets discounts for BMF concerts and sev- BENEFITS eral neighborhood concerts. • Donor-exclusive raffles of free tickets. • Tax deductible. • Donor-exclusive raffles and CD/DVD discounts. • VIP Pre-Sale Access for all BMF’s season tickets and • Upgrade seating priority for 2 tickets to a BMF con- select events. cert. • Unlimited tickets discounts for BMF’s concerts and • Priority reservation discounts of BMF’s annual Gala several neighborhood concerts. Party. • Donor-exclusive raffles of free tickets. • Premium seating for all BMF concerts • Donor-exclusive raffles and CD/DVD discounts. • Free copy of all new BM’s Bands CD or DVD releases • Upgrade seating priority for 2 tickets to a BMF con- & more. cert. • Invitation to private house concerts, artist dinners, • Premium seating for all BMF concerts. and receptions. • Acknowledgement in programs and publications. • Personalized benefits including BMF musicians performing for your private event • Acknowledgement in programs and publications. *BOSSA NOVA FRIEND: $200 *OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS BENEFITS Donate by Phone: (917) 400-1578 • Tax deductible. Donate by Check: • VIP Pre-Sale Access for all BMF concerts. Unlimited tickets discounts for BMF’s concerts • Please make your check out to and several neighborhood concerts. • Donor-exclusive raffles of free tickets. Brazilian Music Foundation • Donor-exclusive raffles and CD/DVD discounts. 25-40 Shore Blvd. Suite 3D-Astoria, NY 11102 • Upgrade seating priority for 2 tickets to a BMF concert. • Premium seating for all BMF concerts. • Free copy of all new BMF’s Bands CD or DVD Your gift makes a difference! releases & more. • Acknowledgement in programs and publica- If desired for tax-purposes, a receipt ac- tions. knowledging your additional contribution may be obtained from our Executive Di- rector: Madalena Sousa

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EDUCATION Percussion for Kids — Workshop

Learning by having fun! Description Program

In this class the kids will learn about the different types Brazilian Music History of percussion instruments used in Brazil, such as agogô, Introduction to percussion instruments xequerê, atabaque, berimbau, tamborim, repique, cuíca Body percussion & more! and pandeiro. Students will be exposed to these instruments and will learn how to play them and the different Age: 6 – 12 sounds each one makes. (we strongly encourage an adult supervision to every child) Contact us today! http://bmf-usa.org/percussion-for-kids/

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Brazilian Music Foundation Brazilian Music Foundation Guitar teacher: Master in Music Volunteer need for Grant Research Part-Time Position Part-Time Position Contact: [email protected] Contact: [email protected]

Brazilian Music Lovers are welcome to send Brazilian Music Foundation Articles and histories to our editorial team. Volunteer need English proofreading Contact: [email protected] Part-Time Position Contact: [email protected]

Useful links

• http://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/category/rio-entertainment/art-and-culture/

• http://www.casadochoro.com.br

• http://brazilclubusa.com

“We will be adding more links every edition”

Editorial team:

Madalena Sousa: Editor In Chief Geisa Rodrigues: Editor’s Assistant Inabel Boria: Proofreading Sonia Esper: Contributor Mila Schiavo: Marketing Director

Contact: [email protected] Site: www.bmf-usa.org

Our mailing address is: 2540 Shore Blvd. Suite 3D - Astoria, NY 11102 Tel. (917) 400-1578 501(c)3 Non-Profit & Tax Exempt Organization

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