Forró, a music style from Brazil’s Northeast, may be declared part of the country’s intangible heritage by 2020. The National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, Iphan, is conducting a study ...

Brazil has a reputation for its music. Just mentioning the country’s name can evoke images of samba bands and glittering dancers at Carnaval, or the swaying beat of "The Girl From Ipanema." But Brazil ...

Most of the members of Forro in the Dark hail from Brazil, home of the forro music from which the group derives its name. Though they are purveyors of the Northern Brazilian country rhythms, these ...

It’s 7pm but still sunny. On the plaza by the water, lots of couples are dancing; intricate steps and twirls and turns and hip swivels and joy and bodies in sync, as rhythmical accordion music plays ...

In a unanimous decision, during an extraordinary meeting this Thursday (9), the Cultural Heritage Advisory Council of the National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute (Iphan) declared the ...

Gilberto Gil, one of the all-time greatest Brazilian musicians, is coming to LA Tuesday, October 23rd, for an all-forró show. Forró is country party music from northeastern Brazil in the state of ...

For a variety of reasons, Latin American proponents of music from the native lands often pretend that race and class aren’t relevant when it comes to music. But listen to the rhythms and the lyrics of ...

Forro in the Dark is a band that brings not just the heat of Brazil to crowded, pulsing nightclubs — it brings the heart. A group of five Brazilians and one American put their rhythmic spin on forro, ...

When: 8-11 p.m. Where: Hendershot's Coffee Price: $10 at the door, $8 online and $8 for students Athens band Bichos Vivos will take the stage of Hendershot’s Coffee & Bar this Saturday to celebrate ...