Entries from May 2005

Monday, May 30th, 2005

New costumes! (sneak preview!)

Its summer, what better time for samba! Maeve has been working hard to put the finishing touches to our beautiful new costumes, modelled here by the samba band, and also some of my sisters, who are not averse to a few sequins…

New ‘batería’ costumes are either black and silver , or a lovely shade [...]

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Meninos do Morumbi workshop

This week we enjoyed the chance to have a day long workshop with Sao Paulo sambistas ‘Meninos do Morumbi’. This brilliant Paulista percussion group was set up for young people to provide ‘alternatives to the use of drugs and juvenile delinquency through music.’ Some of our friends from Manchester School of Samba took [...]