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August 3, 2008

Thanks for an amazing carnival turnout!!

Liverpool city centre carnival

Originally uploaded by petecarr.

Thanks to everyone who turned out to line the streets for the carnival, we will be posting lots of photos and reviews on here, but today its time to nurse drum-induced bruising and have a nap - dancing til [...]

May 11, 2008

Klimt-inspired carnival costume creations

With the carnival but a few months away, official ‘Carnavalesca’ Maeve and her troupe of costumier volunteers have been hard at work preparing costumes, so I thought I’d give our blog readers a sneak preview of how they are shaping up…

One of the themes for the costumes ties in with one of the other highlights [...]

November 6, 2007

Warm your cockles, samba style

Carnival in November, what better way to chase away the winter blues!

June 27, 2007

Next carnival

Next carnival club night at The Picket Fri 29th June 10pm-3am
and don’t forget our July 27th date is now host to the kick-ass Trocabrahma festival. (Can’t wait!!) See flyer for details.

May 22, 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 [...]