Brazil has a reputation for its music. Just mentioning the country’s name can evoke images of samba bands and glittering dancers at Carnaval, or the swaying beat of "The Girl From Ipanema." But Brazil ...

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Like the Junkyard Band in 2008 and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux in 2007, Rob Curto’s Forro For All turned out to be the smash-hit dance party of the 2009 American Folk Festival. Both sets the band played ...

Forro in the Dark showed a small but energetic Monday evening crowd at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage that there's more to the Brazilian songbook than just lush bossa nova. This New York ...

The seats for Rob Curto\'s Forro for All began to empty Friday night as people ran - not for the exits, but for the stage - as the group\'s infectious forro compelled all in attendance to grab the ...

Throughout most of the year, the Northwest BachFest is a showcase for noteworthy pieces — both well-known and underperformed — from the classical chamber music repertoire. Not all of the music in ...

Xaxado Mission is a San Francisco based Brazilian band that specializes in Forró, a genre of music originated in Northeastern Brazil. Their repertoire brings high energy songs from masters Luiz ...