summer events calendar - salvador, brazil (by discoverbrazil.com)
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Summer in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (December to March) is a time of beach parties and shows, the ideal time to travel to Brazil. Between New Year's Eve and Carnival in Salvador, Summer Music Festivals and religious festivals listed in this travel information guide attract visitors.TRANSCRIPT
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Museu du Ritmo, Rua Torquato Bahia, 84
(Mercado do Ouro), Comércio.
Timbalada
Formed by Carlinhos Brown in the Candeal district
of Salvador (Bahia), Timbalada represented his
desire of using the timbau (a kind of drum from
indigenous of candomblé religions) in an Afro-
pop-oriented way, melting rhythms of Bahia with
those of Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean origin.
Also employing vocalists, the peculiar aesthetics
of the group include body painting and a
multitude of pop signs that play with the contrast
between tribal and industrial. The Timbalada is
both a band and a Carnaval bloco . After the
band's success, the timbau was absorbed into
every samba-reggae bateria (drum section). The
group's formation demonstrated the intention of
dissociating themselves from the traditional
percussive blocos, aiming at a hybrid, pop outline,
with three singers, sax, trumpet, trombone,
keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, ten timbaus, five
"marcações," one "repique," two timbales, and a
kind of Afro drumset, the "percuteria."
OLODUM
On Tuesdays, the historic center is
jam-packed with people eating,
drinking and dancing. In this chaos
of bodies one sound is heard:
the unmistakable drumming of
Olodum. Hundreds stand outside
the door of the open courtyard,
Praça Tereza Batista, where
Olodum holds its yearly Tuesday
night rehearsals.
Olodum's second weekly rehearsal,
this one free of charge, is held
every Sunday night atop the
slopping hill in front of the church
Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos
Pretos, built by and for the slaves.
The Grupo Cultural Olodum was
founded in 1979 by the dwellers of
the Maciel-Pelourinho district of
Salvador, for the purpose of
providing these citizens with the
right and opportunity to participate
in Carnaval as an organized group
or "bloco" (percussion group). Prior
to this, so called "marginals":
prostitutes, thieves, and Blacks
were not allowed an opportunity to
partake in the pre-Lenten
festivities. Olodum, in its sixteenth
year, has since grown from 800 to
over 3,000 participants parading
during Carnaval.
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ENSAIO GERAL
Summer Music Festival 2nd-5th February
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Religious Festivities
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The Iemanjá Celebration is an afro-Brazilian ritual that happens every year in
Rio Vermelho, Salvador da Bahia. On this day, candomblé followers, tourists
and visitors put flowers and other presents in the water to celebrate the orixá
of the waters. This celebration happens also in Cachoeira, where instead of
putting the presents in the sea the local habit is to place them in the waters of
the Paraguaçu River.
Every February 2 in Salvador, Bahia, there is a celebration of the Goddess
Iemanja, which involves thousands of people lining up at dawn to leave their
offerings at her shrine in Rio Vermelho. Presents for Iemanja usually include
flowers, perfume, and objects of female vanity. Salvador, Brazil. February 2,
2008.
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