We *love* the new costume Simone, one of our samba dancers is wearing here – and what’s more, really getting into the carnival spirit, the Brazilian-born dancer made it herself! Well that means fewer hours of feathery toil, and maybe a cup of tea for our head costumier Maeve, who is starting to see [...]
An excerpt from the No.1 club hit ‘Round and Round’, with Natasha Hamilton and Liverpool Samba School. Produced by Mike Cockayne for Integral Productions.
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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 [...]
…with her new single, so the Atomic Kitten star celebrated with a party at her bar ‘H’ in Victoria St, and added some Brasilian flavour with our samba band, including singing along with us playing (very lightly!) over her backing track.
Some photos of the night in a slideshow here Photos and video by [...]
We are sooo happy that samba schools from all over the country (and Ireland too) are coming forward to be part of the Liverpool Capital of Culture Carnival on August 2nd this year – its going to be a feathery extravaganza to remember! Samba bands confirmed so far include:
MaSamba from Dublin
Suffolk School of Samba
Paraíso, London
Manchester [...]
London samba school Paraíso confimed that they will be bringing a costumed contingent of happy drummers and dancers to the Capital of Culture this year for the Liverpool Samba School-hosted carnival spectacular.
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Photo by Edgley Cesar.
Crowd pleasers at Notting Hill carnival, Paraíso will be bringing some award-winning sambistas to [...]
“We are going to knock people’s socks off! … Whether you are a seamstress, a carpenter, a dancer, a musician, all types of skills are needed!”
To enable the event to be the highlight of the people’s Capital of Culture year – anyone who is interested may come forward to become involved in any capacity… Here are a few ideas of how you can get involved:
Good with your hands?
You could get involved with the float making – carpentry, painting, papier maché, [...]
Liverpool Samba School is hosting an event for the people of Liverpool – a Brasilian Samba Carnival for the Capital of Culture year.
The Rio-style carnival promises to be an truly exciting evening event, with irresistible rhythms, extravagant costumes and floats. In true Brasilian Samba style there is guaranteed to be plenty of glitz and glamour [...]
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Liverpool Samba School got the crowd going as they performed at the opening of the new world class gallery at the Bluecoat. The opening weekend welcomed over 10,000 people.
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