Gilles Peterson’s Rio de Janeiro playlist

Edit The Guardian 30 Jul 2016
We asked the Brazilian music expert and DJ to warm us up for the Games with a soundtrack to Rio. There are some real gems here. 1. Arthur Verocai – No Baco de Sol ... The album has just been reissued again by Mr Bongo ... 2 ... Emanuelle Araújo - Brasil Pandeiro ... She knocked me out with her version of Brasil Pandeiro, so I immediately summoned her to the studio to record a new version of Southern Freez which appeared on my Brasil Bam Bam Bam album ... ....

What is a Pandeiro?

Edit About.com 22 Feb 2016
The pandeiro is a Brazilian relative of the common tambourine, a hand-held frame drum with a natural skin head and a series of bell-like cups embedded into the wooden frame ... The pandeiro is played as one might guess ... The pandeiro is ......

Capoeira kicks off a new chapter in Australia's ties with Brazil

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 04 Sep 2015
Players must take their cues from the orchestra, usually consisting of several "berimbau" (a single-string instrument resembling an archer's bow that uses a stone to control pitch), "pandeiros" (tambourines) ......

See the Magic and Power of Brazilian Martial Art Capoeira at the Ginga Mundo Group ...

Edit Huffington Post 03 Jun 2015
(Photo by Ace Murray / Brooklyn Juice Photography.) ... Capoeira is played in a circle, called a roda (pronounced "hoda") to the sound of live music -- specifically songs written for the sport, and instruments (the Berimbau, the Atabaque, the Pandeiro and the Agog�) which determine the rhythm, pace and style of game that is played. Mestre Sabi� playing with Professora Pimentinha at an outdoor roda in Belgium he organized ... 6 - 7 p.m. ... 8 p.m....

Rio 2016 celebrates 500 days until the Paralympic Games with flash mob in Copacabana (Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016)

Edit noodls 26 Apr 2015
(Source. Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paraolímpicos Rio 2016). Led by choreographer Deborah Colker (in red) the dancers strut their stuff (Photo. Rio 2016/Alexandre Loureiro) ... As the Games themselves will be, it was quite some party ... Then the assembled group exploded into life to the strains of Rio de Janeiro by American soul singer Barry White, followed Xote de Copacabana by Brazilian artist Jackson do Pandeiro ... (noodl....

Rajasthan makes Turkish percussionist emotional

Edit Deccan Herald 06 Apr 2015
He can speak Hindi, and feels every visit to India is like a homecoming ... “We feel like we have come again to where we were born. Around 400 years back, our grand forefathers, maybe kakaji or pitaji... Ozkan, following his musical training with Okay Temiz, has performed at various national and international festivals with diverse percussion instruments such as bendir, darbuka, daf, conga, pandeiro, djembe and tabla ... ....

Crowds double as Mumbai reclaims streets for 3rd Sunday

Edit The Times of India 24 Nov 2014
Nearly 40,000 Mumbaikars turned up to show their support for the Equal Streets movement on Sunday. The stretch extending from Bandra to Santacruz was swarming with cyclists, skaters, badminton players, yoga enthusiasts and a capoeira troupe ... She was tapping her feet and grooving to the sounds created by instruments like the berimbau (a single-string percussion instrument) and the pandeiro (a type of drum) ... "One lakh," said Bedi ... ....

New Orleans And Brazilian Ragtime Concerts To Be Webcast This Weekend

Edit Forbes 17 Oct 2014
Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York is webcasting concerts four times this weekend featuring top musicians performing New Orleans and Brazilian ragtime ... EDT. Cohen, who was born in Israel and studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, will perform Brazilian “choro” music with three Brazilian musicians, the guitar player Cesar Garabini, pandeiro player Sergio Krakowski and accordion player Vitor Goncalves ... ....

Raising credit score from zero to 789, in 26 months

Edit The News & Observer 11 Oct 2014
Shweta Kohli has always paid her own way. Her straight-A average won her a full scholarship to San Francisco State University at the same time she worked a 40-hour week as a waitress at a cafe ... Kohli, ever the striver, said ... Known as tandas in Mexico, susas in West Africa, pandeiros in Brazil and huis in Asia, these informal savings and lending networks continue to be a mainstay of immigrant communities around the country ... ....

In Time For The World Cup, 'Explorative' New Music From Brazil

Edit National Public Radio 13 Jun 2014
Album ... Sergio Krakowski can be heard on pandeiro, the Brazilian tambourine ... Sergio Krakowski plays the pandeiro and combines the traditional Brazilian repertoire of rhythms with the cycles of Cuba's sacred batá drumming. In this track, he is joined by singer Ekedi Nicinha, pandeiro players Jorginho do Pandeiro and Marcos Suzano, clarinetist Anat Cohen and the Inventos Wind Ensemble for a free improvisation around Brazilian folk themes ... ....

World Cup 2014: Mixed World Cup emotions in Brazil

Edit BBC News 11 Jun 2014
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephones. Prevent the dogs from basking in the Rio sun. Silence the pandeiro and with samba drum, bring on Croatia, let the World Cup come. With apologies to W. H. Auden, the procession towards the start of this World Cup has not resembled the feel-good fiesta many around the world had expected ... In the sprawling city of Rio de Janeiro, very few cars are flying Brazilian flags ... Not this time ... print. ....

2014 World Cup, Samba and Sergio!

Edit Huffington Post 10 Jun 2014
And no, I didn't forget their beautiful women! Some things are best mentioned, if not saved, for last. If you're reading this and just thinking of applying for a travel-visa to go to Brazil, and can't prove you already have an official FIFA World Cup ticket to any of the scheduled games yet, just forget it already ... Sorry Barbosa, RIP ... Q ... Sergio Mielniczenko. ... Q ... SM. ... Bossa Nova with Gilberto Gil, Jackson do Pandeiro, they weren't here yet ... ....
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