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samba kat's Rio Stories: December 2007
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Monday, December 31, 2007. Another note on the mini-Mangueira show. It was actually a rather exhausting evening - it was a rough, pushy crowd (rare in Rio, but it had a bunch of young baile-funk types) and I wasn't feeling that well anyway. But I fought my way to the front row anyway, transfixed by a brilliant repinique player who was hiding out in the back (oh! He did SUCH COOL CALLS!
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samba kat's Rio Stories: November 2007
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Friday, November 16, 2007. Brazil is busting out all over! Suddenly Brazil is busting out all over - after so many months of non-Brazilness,. 1 My article about forro in Rio came out in Harvard's Revista magazine this month (my first actual publication to come out of this blog);. Then the two wild cards that appeared this week out of the blue. Why didn't I think of this before? I have a p...
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samba kat's Rio Stories: October 2006
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Halloween with Maracatu New York. I'm at the end of an exhausting but really good last couple days in New York. Have bought all my last things that I need for Brazil (the last essentials being three bags of chocolate chips, brown sugar, baking powder, and a big jar of peanut butter). Really, we have to stop! Annette met my mom briefly, and she said to my mom une...
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samba kat's Rio Stories: April 2007
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Monday, April 16, 2007. And now the federal police have said that there are "strong indications" that bicheiro Anisio, the funder of Beija-Flor, bought their Carnaval championship this year, presumably by bribing Liesa judges. The blogs and Orkut chat groups are talking about nothing else; the Mangueira chat group is almost in a fervor. How can you possibly compare such things, anyway?
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samba kat's Rio Stories: March 2007
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Wednesday, March 28, 2007. Monobloco's 2007 caixa patterns. Ok folks - as promised - here are all of Monobloco's caixa (snare drum) patterns that we played for the 2007 Carnaval season in Rio. Plus hand signs. Here's hoping it'll be helpful to whatever gringo joins up for next year. 1 SAMBA (hand sign: both index fingers pointing up). Timbal samba (index finger and pinky up). This was Mon...
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samba kat's Rio Stories: December 2006
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Friday, December 29, 2006. Please don't let her die! He is in the hospital now, still asking for his mother, and still has not been told that his mother is dead. The Red Command does not like the militias, and wished to send a message to the new state administration, which takes office on January 1st. Several of the Rio newspapers just listed huge numbers on the front page today:. The new...
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samba kat's Rio Stories: January 2007
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. My choro camp dilemma. Pandeiro is a problem. I have worked hard on it over the last two and a half years, on and off. The "on and off" is because I go through maddening cycles of hand injuries with pandeiro. For such an innocuous-looking little tambourine, it's a real beast! That was a year and a half ago. The card is still tucked in my passport. And all my g...
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samba kat's Rio Stories: November 2006
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Thursday, November 30, 2006. I gave Nem the money I d been planning to spend on the candomble classes. Anyone who wants to make a donation. even just enough for a can of paint. can contact Nem at:. Posted by samba kat @ 6:36 PM. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Her name was Bianca and she was `almost 9 . I had my digital camera out and took a few pictures of her, then a little movie, and...
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samba kat's Rio Stories: October 2007
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Samba kat's Rio Stories. Musical updates from Rio de janeiro, Brasil. This year: A short visit for the 2014 Carnaval. Sunday, October 21, 2007. All roads lead to Rio. But my wonderful London friends, the wild-hearted sambistas of Verde Vai, had persuaded me that I really, really ought to zip to Rio this year, even if just for a short trip. Because they're going too. So it's for real. The countdown starts! I gotta get caught up on all the escola gossip. More details to come. Posted by samba kat @ 7:30 PM.
