Entries from June 2008

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Rio Carnival Champions to join Liverpool samba parade

Mangueira Samba School will be playing with us at this year’s carnival for Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture year! This amazing news adds to the buzz already surounding what promises to be the biggest carnival Liverpool has ever seen, coming up on 2nd of August.
Over 80 years old, Mangueira is one of the most celebrated [...]

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Top prize in the parade goes to Liverpool Samba School erm, again ;)

Liverpool Lord Mayor’s Parade 2008
Originally uploaded by John_Kennan.

Yes amigos, we won the hotly contested ‘best band’ accolade again in this year’s Lord Mayors Parade on Saturday.
The parade was witnessed by thousands of people who lined the streets, and was hailed as the ‘biggest and ‘best ever’ by the Liverpool Echo, with 68 – a [...]

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Our friends in Ireland wow the crowds

Irish Samba School MaSamba, long running collaborators with Liverpool Samba School, bring samba style craic to the streets of Dublin with their own particular flair every year. Look out for them in August in Liverpool as they join us for the European Capital of Culture Carnival on the 2nd!
This video shows their performance at this [...]