It wasn’t hard to find Lô Borges. Growing up in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, he would hang out on the corner of Divinópolis and Paraisópolis, smoking and singing Beatles songs with his ...

The world is watching Brazil after the country won its first Oscar for “I’m Still Here”, a film set in Rio de Janeiro during the dictatorship in the 1970s. The film’s smooth soundtrack feeds into ...

Barbosa’s composition was inspired by Matos Rodríguez's tango, “La Cumparsita,” which is a staple in Latin American culture ...

The band was still tuning up when the first screams pealed through the crowded fairgrounds in Cuiabá, a regional capital in Brazil’s farm belt. A few feet from the stage, a 10-year-old girl in a ...

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 ...

From the opening notes of “Ó Abre Alas” or “O Canto da Cidade”, Brazilians know that it’s time to celebrate: Carnival is here. From samba school parades to blocos (roving street parties), music plays ...

Theresa Bogard, professor of music and keyboard area coordinator at the University of Wyoming, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to conduct research and teach in Brazil during the ...

Hosted on the beautiful CU Boulder College of Music campus, our Bateria Directing Symposium is specifically designed and intended for experienced percussionists and teachers to develop skills and ...