The timing for the release of the new album from Nina Miranda couldn’t have been better. The theme couldn’t have been more current. Freedom of Movement is a celebration of new connections, open doors and bridges in contrast to a world under the threat of becoming more isolationist. Having been brought up in Brazil, UK and […]
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Zeca Pagodinho Live in London
November 27, 2016 
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Zeca Pagodinho, the charismatic Sambista, who headlined the Rio Olympics opening ceremony (alongside Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso), is coming to London this Tuesday, 29 November. His concert, in Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, coincides with the celebrations of 100 years of samba. Zeca started his career as a child in the 1970s and became a regular […]
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August 31, 2015 0 Comments
Every place has a distinctive feel. This sensation is the strongest during the first few minutes of arriving there. Perhaps everything gets intensified after spending so many hours in an air tight cabin. In New Orleans, the first sensation I felt was the unusual soft sound of something that was just like big raindrops falling […]
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