Wallace Leite from San Francisco found himself in the middle of thousands of Brazil’s most fanatic supporters during the country’s 2022 World Cup round-of-16 beatdown of South Korea, leading the fans’ ...

Marcos Odara has been playing the conga drums for 39 years and teaching for the last 20. Odara hails from Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and now calls Oakland home. The drum master teaches Brazilian ...

A writer struggled with being present. This Brazilian drum helped her pay attention. By Carolina Abbott Galvão Earlier this year, Paul Simon’s “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” came on at a party ...

The gods of Africa have come to life tonight. In shimmering costumes of white and blue topped with silver helmets and gilded axes, they glide around the room to the pounding of drums, dancing in the ...

It’s not Carnival, and we’re not in Brazil, but we do have a festival — Exit Zero Jazz Festival — and PhillyBloco will bring the best of Brazilian percussion right to our own backyard when it plays ...

World-music fans have some great choices this week, as bands from Africa and Brazil converge on the city. From Africa comes Nii Tettey Tetteh & the Kusun Ensemble, an eclectic group from Ghana that ...

Long time maker of drum grooves for Apple’s GarageBand and Logic music creation applications, Beta Monkey Music on Monday released a new set of grooves in the Brazilian drum style. Drum Werks XIV: The ...