Brazilian choro has strong followings and many practitioners in Europe, Japan and the USA (there’s even an annual festival of Choro in Berkeley, California). So it always comes as something of a surprise that the UK, with its... Read Article
Not many musicians manage to bridge the Brazilian musical origins of bossa, samba and choro with modern jazz, pop and baroque classical music as Hamilton de Holanda does. Last week he released his new album Samba de Chico,... Read Article
Hamilton de Holanda is currently one of the most celebrated instrumentalists in Brazil, blending Brazilian choro, samba and jazz together into beautiful dream-like bandolin chords. The 11 time winner of the Prêmio da Música Brasileira will launch his... Read Article
Our man Boebis is back with another quality mix unearthing some of Brazilian music’s hidden gems. After exploring afro, spiritual and folkloric music on Raíces and the sounds of Pará on Uirapura, he has now turned to the... Read Article
Brazilian Endowment for the Arts, inside the series Music & Música, presents a choro concert with Regional de NY this Friday, March 2 at 8pm. Choro (“cry”) is one of the earliest Brazilian popular music genres, growing out of informal... Read Article
